Rome, 24 Mar The Italian coach, Roberto Mancini, confessed that staying out of the Qatar 2022 World Cup is his “biggest disappointment” and assured that tonight, in the defeat to North Macedonia (0-1), “something incredible has happened”. Italy will not go to the World Cup for the second time in a row. North Macedonia deprived the 'Azzurra', in Palermo (Italy, South), of reaching the final of the repechage after a match they dominated but in which they could not materialize the many occasions they had. “Just as July was the best thing that happened to me on a personal level (winning Euro 2020), this is the biggest disappointment. Something incredible happened tonight. We shouldn't have been there, we did everything we could to win the match, but some games are like this... “, the coach told Rai. “The goal in the 90th minute seems to have been on purpose. I don't know what to say. I'm really sorry for the players,” he added. Now, after the failure to lead the current European champion to the World Cup and fall to North Macedonia, the future of Mancini at the helm of the national team is in question. “The disappointment is too great to talk about my future. However, I am sure that the team has a very big one.” Of the last four editions, the four-time world champion has failed three of them (2010, 2018 and 2022). He only attended in 2014. CHIEF tfc/jl
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