Following the resignations of Gabriele Gravina, Gianluigi Buffon & Gennaro Gattuso from their positions with Italy, the Golazo Matchday crew is looking ahead past their recent failure to qualify for the 2026 World Cup and taking a moment to break down their 5-step plan in order to SAVE Calcio in Italy. Join Poppy Miller, Mike Grella, Matteo Bonetti & Marco Messina as they discuss potential managers who could assume leadership positions, as well as chat about the roster, breaking down which stars deserve a chance to play for Italy moving forward.
0:00 1. TEAR IT DOWN
2:51 2. Appoint a true director/president
5:37 3. Football-minded coaches
8:58 4. Fix youth structure
10:29 5. Find a core of players
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11:05 Nothing wrong with Serie B! Come see where some of the best young Italians play!
people talk about Shitaly like they were the shyte when in fact Shitaly handed free qualifications for decades. Now that Europe seats numbers were reduced, Shitaly showed it's potential which is not qualifying 3 times in a raw. Move on!
Baggio as FIGC head, Conte as Coach and need some quality strikers, impose a limit to number of foreign players in Serie A clubs, focus on youth teams at clubs and scout them and give chance to play for national team. We need them to play with some pride and aggression. They must earn the badge and shirt. You dont play for a 4 time champion team just like that.
Italy needs to hire Simone Inzaghi as coach.
Amen! Maldini – ADP – amazing choices. Italians are some of the proudest cultures – Italian football is pride – we need someone who is flipping pissed off – we are a laughing stock – Prerequisite for new staff – All need to be humble, accept the shame and have patience. It will take time to ahow the world who is boss!
Please bring up talent from the lower rung… Present predicament of Italian football is not done at all for fans
Well worth following in this and recent Italy podcasts.
https://youtu.be/bEyakYTRXr0?si=vddkyMz_7_WGP6IL
Baggio for President
Who ARE these people to say how to rebuild Italian Football??
Keyword here: Corruption! Inter's role in all this is being guilty for the downfall because of their corrupt system and bias FIGC figures.
Del Piero has no experience, Maldini yes!
Robbarto baggio + poulo maldini
Italy should play attacking football instead of defending
My nsme is sakib Lovic's iwas bourne in Bosnia, left at 12 ' to Fiume ( Rijeka(
At every gem 7To 16 goals. I proved to you how is done.and i dont ask you $5.Milions per year.
I have simple solutions 4you Italian FOOTBAL Einstein with some ideelogy w
2:30 said the same thing 😂italy can't even host because of the stadiums
0:10 is this part of the 900 pages baggio files?
Spaletti in? Are you crazy
Grella was being antisemitic for a second 🤡🤡🤡
but why these muricans refer to “we dont have”, who is we?! you are an american, dont act italian, you are Anthony, not Antonio
Maldini, Baggio, Buffon, Chielini bring them out of retirement 😂! That’s the only cure
It's so tiresome listening to Americans saying "we" when they are talking about Italy.
Poppy getting a bit heavy
Point 4, fix the youth systems?? Invest more money. How?? When they are stuck playing in Seríe C or D? Until Italian top flight clubs stop bring in in 19-20 year olds Germans, French, Dutch, Africans and start playing 19-20 year old Italians. Look at the Spain French national team or the Spanish. Their players under 21 play for their top flight teams. Italy’s U -21s ( with a few exceptions ) play for Serie B or worse.
Brutal
Sorry but Buffon and Bonucci were part of the problem. Buffon was the one who wanted Gattuso over Mancini. Via
Italia has not moved forward,, the game has changed . we need to change mentality ..
There are too many foreigners in serie a.
The clubs need to get more italian players.
Marco and Matteo's passion is infectious, but passion and Italian roots only go so far. As an Italian from Italy, I'd love to see you bring in a guest straight from Italy, imperfect English and all, someone with a real lived understanding of Italian football and culture. It would add a whole new dimension to the conversation.
It was somewhat alluded to. You need to start seeing more Italian players playing with the top teams in the Searie A. Most of the teams in the top tier are from other countries. The Serie A is developing players for other national teams. They need to rethink their strategy. I know it’s a big ask when there is so much money involved
#releasebaggiofiles
Roberto Baggio!!!!!!
Roberto Baggio 900 page document, and you people don’t mention it? WTH?
Release the Baggio files. 900 page document. Can golazo Talk about it?
Why not Ancelotti? Better question, why wouldn’t he want to accept the job (other than the lack of talent)?
Stadiums and TV deals and the rest takes care of itself. Money is what is needed first and foremost
As a Mexican having lived the past 5 years in Italy, I've been a season ticket holder for Fiorentina the last 3 years and have traveled throughout Italy to go to Serie A games, here is what I'm seeing. Also, I'm here for work, so I'm working daily with Italians. The first part that was mentioned here is correct, Italians dont' want to change, it's all about friendships, they don't like to see younger and lower class people come up. Secondly, the speed of the game is too slow, that is why they haven't had a top scorere lately. They just can't keep up with the faster players, that is why recently the top tier defending no longer keeps up. Technically they are still up there, however lack speed throughout all positions. They need to increase spending in infrastructure and players, look at Como, a team that was no where a few years ago, a foreigner came in (richest in Serie A owners) and spent money on players to prodcue a top team here in such a short time. Also, look at the play of Como, different compared to rest of Serie A teams. They bring in too many older guys with names instead of giving younger Italians playing time. The older players with names can play in italy as it's slower pace
The leaders lack Vision.
First no more lack of vision!
No more bureaucrats and political BS
Bring back homegrown talent to the team. And let’s get rid of this thousands of years of hatred between the south and the north and Bring players that are actually far more generous in creating striker positions.
Letting go of the status quo! And there’s no incentive to go in the World Cup when all of these players are making more money at these other tournaments there’s just no incentive to create cohesive strikers like in the past when they’re earning their money in other big national tournaments
Just for the English friend who don't know Italy: there's no way they'll choose someone like Maldini or Del Piero. They'll choose another "politicians" from the same breed as Gravina and Abete, they'll make some inconsequential changes, no hope for a real change (maybe if they break down the whole federation, but I don't see how they could)
disappointed in Bonetti recommending Allegri for the job. Him & Conte are two of the biggest reasons Italian football is in the mess it's in. He didn't change Milan from a 9th place team to a 2nd placed team. Fonseca & Conceicao turned them from a 2nd to 9th placed. Allegri to his credit has brought them back to par, but in doing so he's played the worst football I've ever seen & potentially setting the club back 10 years with his preference to older players.
We need "tear everything down" relating to the first point. For that I can only see a foreign coach being the answer, preferably Guardiola.
Nothing will happen to Italy
The only thing to bring Italian Football back is to produce Fantasistas again. They cannot reclaim their Italian Defensive Football identity without producing Fantasistas.