It is unquestionable that Italian football has hit a new low, but what can be done to resolve this?
Youth development, revamped stadiums and incentives for playing young Italian players have all been talked about but what is realistic and how long will a rebuild take?
by Samonsport
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There is a deep dive into the issue here: https://samonsport.substack.com/p/tutti-a-casa-everyone-home
meno 352, meno squadracce che elemosinano la salvezza…
Ask the 60 millions of football managers we have and they will give you 60 millions perfect solutions
Massimo 10 stranieri per squadra nel campionato italiano…
You guys believe Italian football is some sort of a separate entity from the country. The problem with Italian football is called Italy, until you fix the country -and with all due respect we have other more important priorities – it won’t change anything.
Gravina filled Figc with politicians sons, just to give you an example. The next Gravina won’t be any different. We need a revolution in Italy for more serious matters. The problems we are having in football are the same in the industrial environment in general, there’s no vision from the policymakers.
Proper youth scouting and talent management implementation. It’s the main gap we have vs France, Germany, Spain, England – and the reason we don’t have their depth of squad and level of talent, especially in attack.
Good news: we’ve had a plan on the table since 2011 (Baggio proposal).
Bad news: it’ll take one or two generations to see the results. Also, corruption. Corruption might keep stopping it.
By having more teams like como fielding 19-23yr old players. Just make sure the are đŽđš.
Just hand FIGC over to R. Baggio.
He knew whatâs been coming since 2011, and wrote a 900 page report about whatâs wrong with the system and how to fix it, that of course got canned
First of all âItalian Footballâ doesnât need salvation, we need NOTICABLE improvement and getting up to date.
First steps that must be needed is finding a way to grow the revenue of clubsâŚ. Especially the ones that represent Italian football year in and year out; Milan, Inter, Juventus, Napoli⌠how can these teams compete with their peers if they generate tops 500 mil x year (Inter with a UCL final and Club World Cup) and on average 400 mil x year when their competitors generate double and i do not mean in a hyperbolic manner⌠it is LITERALLY DOUBLE.
– Stadium revenue is ass, TV rights are ass, the product given from a camera pov is ass in contrast to PL, La Liga and BuLi. It is as much one can do with Commercial Revenue alone.
– If Inter, Milan or Juve generated 700+ mil x year Calafiori wouldnât have gone to Arsenal, Tonali wouldnât have gone to Newcastle aka the league becomes stronger by de facto.
Secondly, the **Youth Sector**⌠i watch Youth Football, Primavera and Uefa Youth League for the last 4/5 years now⌠Italian teams actually play 19/20/21 years old in the primavera. That shit needs to be hard capped at 18 years old with 2/3 19 years old or something. Inter and Roma have been dominating Primavera for 5 years now⌠they finish 1st or 2nd every time. Both of them in Primavera have one appearance in the quarters of the Youth League in 5 years, that being Inter last year. In meantime Milan and Juve have reached the semis and final of Youth League playing 17 year old guys. Primavera is to prepare players not to win stuff with 21 year old guys.
– In addition, the pipeline to go from Primavera to Professional football in Serie A is FUCKED UP, one needs to improve the step between Youth Football and Professional football to streamline it. It isnât that there is not any talent in Italian football, i have watched these guys vs other elite Youth Football players⌠in Youth League and International Youth Football, these guys can compete (***Inter last year, Milan 2/3 years ago and Juventus and even the NT team has gone far and won stuff***)⌠they are just burned out by Italian hierarchy while taking the next step.
Basta negri nelle giovanili e le squadre che schierano piĂš di 3 stranieri in campo subiscono multe che le mandino fallite.
As a Bulgarian I see a lot of similarities between Bulgarian and Italian football while of course Italian football remains much better (but for your very high standards it is lacking) – a bad youth system incapable of producing top talent, clubs relying too much on foreigners, a corrupt FA which refuses to take responsibility for anything (so why are you there then??) Even some recents steps remind of Bulgarian football – like hiring Gattuso and Buffon for the 2006 vibes like we tried every player from the 1994 squad in every position (and they all sucked).
We are already lost, there is total apathy in Bulgaria for football and I have no hope that we will ever produce another top player. Italy is still a huge country, you still have a reputation (Italian players are still rated, you will have 3 coaches at the World Cup) – you should have hope but changes need to happen now.
You got 4 world cups , thereâs no need to fix anything. Someone else can win the WC ,
Follow the FrenchâŚ..embrace North African players đ
Keep racism to politics only
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First fans and them players hate each others. In EPL biggest clubs make transfers between them but in italy it’s sin. In Italy fans and clubs rather sell player cheaper to other league to make it weaker instead of being good sport
Multiple qualified people have asserted that the youth system needs to be fixed. To which, Italians continue to say “Nahhh!! our U21!!” and propose solutions like forcing Serie A teams to play Italian players, ignoring that the more Italians a Serie A team have the worse they end up performing.
People don’t want to hear the real solutions. They want emotionally comforting assessments. In 4 years, they will ask for new assessments of the same problem.
start by fixing the serie A
It is already ‘FIXED’