{"id":151303,"date":"2026-04-04T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=151303"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:45:10","slug":"gattuso-apologises-after-italy-misses-out-on-another-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=151303","title":{"rendered":"Gattuso apologises after Italy misses out on another FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70810149\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso was emotional and apologetic after his side suffered a playoff penalty shootout loss in Bosnia on Tuesday, to miss \u200bout on its third successive World Cup, but he refused to talk about his future.<\/p>\n<p>The Italians, \u200cfour-time winners and champions as recently as 2006, took an early \u200blead in Zenica, but after going down to 10 men, they were \u2060hauled back by Bosnia before penalties sent Gattuso\u2019s side packing.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering defeat at the playoff stage for the last two World Cups, another absence will be hard to take for all involved \u200cin Italian football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the boys didn\u2019t deserve a beating like this,\u201d a teary-eyed Gattuso told RAI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were left with 10 players, we had three \u200cdecent chances and they barely troubled us. I\u2019m sorry, this is football \u200cand \u2060I\u2019m proud of my boys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts, because we needed it for us, \u2060for all of Italy and for our movement. A blow that\u2019s difficult to digest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ny2cc-p8-nE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gattuso and Italy were incensed when a foul by Tarik Muharemovic on the edge of the area brought just a yellow card \u200bearly in extra time, but the \u200cmanager did not want to talk about refereeing decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about anything, but today it\u2019s unfair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been in the world of football for years, sometimes I have rejoiced and today I take a beating. \u200cIt\u2019s hard to digest, they surprised me too for the heart they put \u200binto it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking for the umpteenth time that we don\u2019t go to the World Cup. I apologise if I didn\u2019t make it, but \u2060the boys impressed me today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gattuso, who replaced Luciano Spalletti early in the qualification campaign after defeat to Norway, was asked about his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday talking about \u200cmy future is not important, it was important to go to the World Cup,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hold onto this performance, but it hurts and I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) Gabriele Gravina told reporters that he had asked Gattuso to stay on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mood is quite evident, especially for how this result has matured,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllow me to congratulate the boys, in recent months they have had incredible growth, many \u200cof you have not been able to appreciate the climate and atmosphere in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><b>Report | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/italy-fifa-world-cup-2026-qualification-european-playoffs-final-stage-denmark-sweden-turkey-news\/article70808157.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Italy misses out on FIFA World Cup for third time in a row after Playoff shootout loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to \u200bcongratulate Rino Gattuso. He is a great coach, I asked him to stay at the helm with these boys. There is little to \u2060comment, the coach called them heroic. Then, I understand there are several evaluations to be \u2060made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gravina is himself under extreme pressure at the head of Italian football given its repeated failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the political part there is a place to make \u200cthe evaluations, namely the Federal Council,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have already decided to call them up for next week, there will be evaluations made internally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the request \u200bfor resignation given the situation, but there is a suitable place to make the evaluations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Apr 01, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/italy-coach-gennaro-gattuso-apologises-failed-fifa-world-cup-qualification\/article70810149.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso was emotional and apologetic after his side suffered a playoff penalty shootout loss in Bosnia on Tuesday, to miss \u200bout on its third successive World Cup, but he refused to talk about his future. The Italians, \u200cfour-time winners and champions as recently as 2006, took an early \u200blead in Zenica, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bosnia_Italy_WCup_Soccer_4_7_5.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Dmn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}