Italian soccer lacks a sense of responsibility for a common good

As @RobertoRenga wrote: “I have dedicated my professional life and a book to the National Team. We used to despair over a third place in the World Cup, over a title lost on penalties, over Moreno. I have never lived through such a period.

While today we are rejoicing over the three goals we scored against Turkey without reflecting on the fact that we didn’t score them when we needed to, confirming how much anxiety and superficiality determined those results.

The issue is the lack of a sense of responsibility for a common good, soccer, on the part of those who lead Italian soccer.

An organization with a winning mentality after winning the European Championship would have considered the path taken and the final result in terms of reaching an intermediate stage towards the goal of securing participation in the World Cup. In turn, the latter outcome would have been a further step toward achieving ambitious outcome goals during the World Cup. After that, the eventual positive result in this World Cup would have represented a further step towards the goal of maintaining that standard of results and that of laying the foundation for the development of young players who would have to replace the previous ones.

Therefore, the growth of the national soccer system does not end with the achievement of a result, as it was conceived by the organization and the players themselves, but is a continuous process of improvement that will never end. Now the intellectual paucity of our managers, the limited interest of the Clubs to go beyond their immediate goals and the narrow-mindedness of the technical staff composed only of former players who compare themselves on the basis of a common cultural background (which confirms their conservative stereotypes) and little open to new approaches, are at the basis of this generational failure.

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