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Maybe he was just frustrated only that's why he said that, it could be like that. Maybe he didn't see the performance he expected from the Italian team, I'm just not sure if that's really the case.

Look, I'm Italian too, of course for all of us it's annoying that we missed 3 World Cup qualifications in a row but we also have to be realistic: in the past years we were playing with a lot of mediocre players leaving out some very promising youngster; now Mancini is calling all these young guys and we can see that the team is changing and improving.
Of course we still have a long way to go but we have some very promising players. We can actually be confident for the future.

And we'll also see what happens with the Tresoldi situation: in my opinion at the end he'll choose Germany but if for whatever reason he chooses Italy... Well, Esposito + Tresoldi would be a very interesting attack.

• Italy make a fool of themselves as usual,

I think you're being too harsh against Italy: it was the first match with the new (old) manager, there were a lot of new players, you style of play, and the match against Belgium was basically ruined by a single mistake made by a 20-year-old player during his international debut. The other results have been absolutely great because I'm sure everybody was expecting France to score at least 3-4 goals.