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Someone like that wouldn't have made the squad in 2006. He has a problem scoring goals at Genoa...

In my opinion, the only Italian in the last 20 years who had the potential to be a great star was Balotelli, but he ruined his career due to a weak head. The rest, unfortunately, is a team of mediocre people at the front.

That's what stars like Mbappe etc. are there for, to score goals at moments when the team is not doing well, when it is not in form. If you have a team of only mediocre players, such as Scamacca or Pellegrini, you have to be in the best shape of your life to win something.

They have one star - Bellingham and that's enough. Italy hasn't had anyone like that since Balotelli's brilliance.

Slovakia takes a 1-0 lead in the 4th match in this Euro.

Bulgaria draw with Mancini's team in 2021 just after the Euro.

Slovakia is playing 100 times better than Italy under Spaletti.

The host- nation is not guaranteed a place in every discipline.

Conte had an experienced and stable defense based on Juventus: Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini + Buffon. The attack was weak but there were some foundations. Currently, every formation (without Donnarumma)is a collection of some random people who look like boys from the yard. Regarding winning Euro in 2021, it looks like an "accident at work". Without this one tournament, the Italian team is playing worse and worse and has an increasingly weaker squad: not qualifying for the World Cup twice in a row is a disgrace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2032

We have Euro 2032 at home together with Turkey. In the last few years we have won medals in youth competitions. There is potential but steps need to be taken so that these young and talented juniors can move to Serie A clubs and play there regularly. There is no other way. And this is work for 2030+, not just now, or in next 1 or 2 years. Unfortunately but paradoxically winning Euro in 2021 it only clouded the picture and we wasted 3 years. Radical steps should have been taken earlier. Italy's last 4 events: 2x failure to advance to the World Cup, 1/8 finals of Euro 2024 and gold in 2021. In hindsight, 2021 was a miracle, like Greece's victory in 2004.

Everything is going according to plan, unless some committee doesn`t accept his quota.

Russians haven`t been competing in Athletics as a full team since 2016. Almost 10 years. Some people already compete for other countries but these are still isolated cases: people who have already trained abroad, e.g. Kirpichnikova in France or Sofia Prosvirnova (short track), who has a husband from Denmark, etc.

For me Rus will probably withdraw completely, because sending such a limited and weak squad doesn`t make sense for them. In the case of a all squad boycott, they will have an alibi that they are strong but gave up because of discrimination or something like that.

https://www.coni.it/it/news/andrea-carlino-ottiene-il-pass-per-parigi-nei-60-kg-italia-qualificata-ai-giochi-in-13-categorie-di-peso.html

The Italian Olympic Committee confirmed the quota for Andrea Carlino in the 60 kg category: https://www.coni.it/it/news/andrea-carlino-ottiene-il-pass-per-parigi-nei-60-kg-italia-qualificata-ai-giochi-in-13-categorie-di-peso.html

This athlete probably has no chance of winning a medal?

Unfortunately, Pilato is not as talented as Meliutyte to fight for gold in Paris. Pilato once seemed like a great talent when she broke the 50-meter world record. Then she was the 100 world champion in 2022 but with a rather poor time and a weak team. Actually, I wonder why there was such strong swimming in Ukraine - the times of Klochkowa, Lisogor etc, when there were very few such indoor 50-meter swimming pools. Once, when I was visiting a friend in Lutsk - sometime in 2017, I wanted to go to the swimming pool in the summer and it was only small recreational pool with many people. And Lutsk is a center of oblast city, so it's not that small.

She used to be a nice girl, although she was more of a "girl next door" type :P I remember that she had a conflict with Meliutyte years ago. Did Yefimova comment on the war in anyway?

Kiripichnikova now it`s French. Jefimova, the one from Russia (because she is even younger from Estonia and also swims breaststroke), is probably already old and has no chance of winning medals. It's strange that she's still thinking about something.

Swimming? After all, the Russians themselves withdrew from this discipline. Since they were banned from the World Championships in Doha in February, the topic of swimming has not been discussed in their context.

It's a bit of a surprise that they are cutting them down everywhere and they left the canoe alone, even though there were a lot of doubts about the interpretation of the word "team- crew" and Styhl's rich doping past.

Do you know why Belarus rejected all its quotas in wrestling and Russia didn`t ?

Still nothing about canoe sprint...

An exceptionally pretty girl. In this sport, it's rather rare.