Our beloved Italian football has its share of problems. The crumbling stadiums, misguided youth development, poor marketing and executive management, and national team’s pitfalls in recent years (the anomalous Euro 2020 win notwithstanding) do make this a low point in its history.
But, with many declaring Italian football "dead" after the league's collective wobble in the Champions League playoff round last week, here's why that diagnosis was both hasty and untrue:
https://mostlycalcio.substack.com/p/why-serie-as-recent-eulogy-was-premature
by Ok-Mix-6276
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I also really liked Marinozzi’s analysis. For the non Italians:
Our teams don’t perform in Europe because your league is objectively and statistically less intense. Partially because of the median age but mostly for the style of play.
To be fairs all the above apply to italy in general. So like they have to improve that first.
People have been predicting the imminent death of Italian football for around 20 years now. The problems they identify are very real; the sky-is-falling reactions to them have always been overblown.