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Filippo Galli has hit back at Paolo Maldini, insisting the Milan icon cannot pass judgement on Italian youth football “without having ever gone through, from the inside, the daily work that development requires.”

Galli insisted technique cannot be taught in isolation from tactical understanding, and that Italy’s real shortfall lies elsewhere: “Italy’s technical problem isn’t the wall, if anything, it’s the courtyard,” he said, pointing to a lack of unsupervised street football rather than any excess of coaching.

He said the Rossoneri’s academy under his watch was built on attacking football that “never traded our idea of formative football for an immediate result,” with mistakes treated “as a stepping stone, not a fault.”

Gli Azzurri debutteranno il 25 settembre all’Olimpico di Roma. Sarà anche la prima partita della seconda esperienza da ct di Roberto Mancini

Does the uefa boycott of FIFA mean the Nations League might be boycotted? Is that why tickets for the vs Belgium match aren't on sale yet? Or did I miss them?

Former Italy and Lazio striker Ciro Immobile, who had been with Paris FC, has announced his retirement at the age of 36.

Thursday’s reports claim that 18-year-old forward Samuele Inacio could be handed a call-up to the senior Italy national team squad in September and that he could potentially be handed his competitive international debut in order to fend off interest from Brazil, who have sent scouts to watch the teenager over the last few days.

Paolo Maldini insists that there would not have been any major legal issues to overcome had the Italian FA truly wanted to appoint Andrea Pirlo as the next head coach of the Italy national team, and instead feels that his appointment was blocked by the court of public opinion.

I will be in Rome for September 25th for Italy’s Nations League game against Belgium and not sure how to get tix online.

I’d prefer to get them from an official vendor rather than a 3rd party, just to be safe.

I went to what seems like the official ticketing site of the Italian Football Federation but the “tickets” section of the site is a mess. Any tips?

https://ticketing.figc.it/

Leonardo Bonucci will be part of Roberto Mancini’s coaching staff with the Italy national team, the FIGC has confirmed, as the full list of technical collaborators has now been confirmed.

Mancini will be assisted by Gabriele Oriali as ‘team manager’. The 1982 World Cup winner had previously served as a technical director while Mancini was head coach of Inter, and also worked as team manager of the Italy national team under both Mancini and Antonio Conte between 2014 and 2023.

Alberto Bollini will continue to serve as the assistant head coach of the Italy national team. The 6-year-old has been involved with the Azzurri set-up and its youth teams since 2019.

The list of first-team coaches will include Bonucci, Antonio Gagliardi and Massimo Maccarone.

Marco Roccati and Cristiano Lupatelli will serve as Italy’s goalkeeping coach and assistant goalkeeper coach respectively. Giacomo Ceci and Marco Montini have been confirmed as the fitness coaches and Renato Baldi and Christian Venturini are the chief analysts.