said.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cDespite having little time to train, he managed to give the team a soul. It wasn\u2019t enough, and he was the first one to be sorry.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn paper, we are stronger than Northern Ireland and Bosnia. I experienced those days with the team and the players, who promised they\u2019d give their all. And they did. Some were carrying knocks, others arrived in top form but didn\u2019t perform as expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gianluigi Buffon has also resigned as Italy\u2019s Delegation Chief, but Gravina believes that the ex-goalkeeper has a bright future as a football director ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI brought him to Club Italia because I believe he has a great managerial career ahead of him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent years, he has trained and grown a lot. Now, however, it\u2019s up to him to make the best choices for his future.\u201d<\/p>\n
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ROME, ITALY \u2013 JUNE 19: Gianluigi Buffon, Italy new head coach Gennaro Gattuso and FIGC president Gabriele Gravina pose during the press conference at Hotel Parco dei Principi on June 19, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Juventus coach Luciano Spalletti, who led the Azzurri from September 2023 until last June, has proposed using an under-19 player in every Serie A starting line-up, but it\u2019s something that can\u2019t be imposed by law.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, not,\u201d concluded Gravina.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can only try through a system of incentives for Italian youth academies. One example could be tax credits, but the Government has never wanted to grant them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriele Gravina insists Gennaro Gattuso is a \u2018well-prepared coach\u2019 who gave Italy \u2018a soul\u2019, but some players \u2018didn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,1637,771,1148,1852,5,170,503,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-6165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-bosnia-and-herzegovina","9":"tag-gabriele-gravina","10":"tag-gattuso","11":"tag-gianluigi-buffon","12":"tag-gravina","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-juventus","15":"tag-luciano-spalletti","16":"tag-rome"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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