{"id":740,"date":"2026-03-30T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:50:41","slug":"world-cup-play-off-final-italys-plan-on-eve-of-bosnia-clash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/740\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup play-off Final: Italy\u2019s plan on eve of Bosnia clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italy national team will train at Coverciano this morning and fly from Florence to Bosnia in the afternoon, before Gennaro Gattuso\u2019s pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Italy are preparing for a massive World Cup play-off Final against Bosnia and Herzegovina, to be played at the Bilino Polje Stadium in Zenica on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s plan on the eve of the World Cup play-off Final<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LaGazzettaDelloSport\/posts\/litalia-rimanda-la-partenza-per-la-bosnia-nelle-ultime-ore-zenica-%C3%A8-stata-imbian\/1522792505871938\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gazzetta;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Gazzetta&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Gazzetta<\/a>, the Azzurri have slightly changed their plans on the eve of the game, as they\u2019ll fly to Bosnia later than expected due to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/three-issues-facing-italy-play-off-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bad weather there.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;bad weather there.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">bad weather there.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Azzurri CT Gennaro Gattuso has decided to let his players train in Coverciano rather than on the heavy pitch at the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/italy-bosnia-final-world-cup-play-off-stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bilino Polje Stadium;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bilino Polje Stadium&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bilino Polje Stadium<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Italy will train at their training centre on Monday morning, before leaving for Bosnia with a private flight at 16:30 CET (15:30 BST). The Nazionale is expected to arrive in Zenica at around 19:00 CET.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2ccdbe78835a782efaaf230e15293390.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First part of Italy\u2019s training session at Coverciano on Monday, March 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Once Gattuso and the players arrive at the venue for tomorrow\u2019s match, they\u2019ll undergo a pitch inspection, while the coach and one of his players will preview the Final at a pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italy national team will train at Coverciano this morning and fly from Florence to Bosnia in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121,690,143,5,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-bosnia","9":"tag-coverciano","10":"tag-gennaro-gattuso","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-italy-national-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}