Out of the 33 Italians to ever feature in the Bundesliga, Luca Reggiani is the youngest to score! 🇮🇹 🥹 pic.twitter.com/CJabCn3WFc— Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) March 15, 2026
The success of Luca Reggiani and Ignacio just makes me think it’s probably best for young SKILL based Italian players to GTFO of Italy when they are teenagers. Pafundi should have moved to a Spanish club years ago. Instead he had the misfortune of being part of a club like Udinese at the time where they had coaches like Cioffi and Sottil. Two 3-5-2 merchants who want their squads to double as rugby teams. He wasted some precious years
Yes exactly it has worked for English players as well to go abroad. There is also Della Rovere now at Bayern II and he is supposedly playing well. Serie B is slowly getting better at pushing teenagers at least 2nd half of the season we have seen Rao Liberali breakthrough ..Comotto has played a lot but these attacking talents are being destroyed ybthe 352..when teams move to 3421 it's ok but 352 like you said is rugby. Italians need to be brave and enter the market. Even if you go to a league like Belgium it is better to play somewhere where the game is fast and you maybe are in europe even at a conference league level. The guys that barely play and then finally are trusted in Serie B at 22/23 are already too old by that point. Look at Salvatore Esposito. You just become a Serie B guy. Another year or two and youre not even worth it.
Nemanja Matić: "Why is Italian football Struggling? It’s STUCK in the 1990s." "The first problem concerns the academies. Youth systems in England and France are far more advanced. They teach you how to dribble and they develop technical skills. Here it's not the same." "Another issue is tactics, which are important but also limiting. In Italy the three-man defense is used too often and teams attack too little. An innovative project is needed, otherwise things will only keep getting worse."
Whether this is true or not, this is what I read.... La FIFA sta valutando l'Italia come principale candidata a sostituire l'Iran per la Coppa del Mondo FIFA 2026 negli Stati Uniti. Il presidente della FIFA, Gianni Infantino, ha contattato personalmente il ministro dello sport iraniano, offrendo la possibilità di svolgere ritiri di allenamento flessibili al di fuori degli Stati Uniti e riorganizzando il calendario delle partite. Tuttavia, la posizione iraniana rimane chiarissima: "Non parteciperemo e non giocheremo mai in un Paese che ha ucciso il nostro leader e decine di bambini". L'Italia è ora la principale candidata e la FIFA dovrebbe prendere presto una decisione definitiva, che potrebbe consentirle di saltare i restanti playoff. Altre novità a breve! I don't know how true this is but I guess that would be great for Italy.
I’ve done a complete 180 on Como. Yes they can invest more in Italian talents and I hope that happens next summer, but they are positive for Serie A. Fabregas proves that another football is possible. It’s amazing what happens when you have a clear project and you scout good players. They’ve added an intensity and pressing that teams in Serie an are not used to are now they’re knocking of the CL door.
Good points, those were my same thoughts. A different system that works and showing the need for technical players that can dribble. Also they are training Italian youth who will take a few years to come through.
Yes Como is great for Serie A and they will eventually buy these talented young italians in Serie B and abroad. They are among the few that can afford it. Also with Como alongside projects like Atalanta Bologna and yes even Fiorentina there is a depth in Serie A that can make a difference long term. If they can prove playing 352 low block dosent always work it will for sure help the league.
I thought Serie A was the only league with abismal amount or domestic players starting every matchday but this is an issue all over Europe, except for la Liga: Spain 119/220 players Holland 86/198 Germany 68/198 France 64/198 England 63/220 Italy 60/220 Portugal 46/198 Belgium 39/176 Difference with italy and those nations is they have a health amount of players playing all over Europes top leagues. Stop thinking serie a can be fixed and follow suit. It aint 2006 anymore.
There are changes that can be made to at least strike a better balance the Cdl is being lowered for next summer idk how that’s gonna impact everything but there isn’t gonna be as much money to buy foreigners and playing U23 Italians doesn’t count towards that. There are some other things being floated about incentivizing the TV deals to pay teams for playing young Italians which is being done in Serie B which any where from 20 to 50 million Euro to teams from what I understand.
🚨On Wednesday March 18th at the FIGC HQ in Rome, a NEW “Technical project of Italian youth football' WILL be presented by FIGC president Gabriele Gravina alongside technical coordinators of youth: Maurizio Viscidi, Simone Perrotta & Gianluca Zambrotta🔜🇮🇹@FIGC pic.twitter.com/eoQpfc5qOE— AzzurriXtra🇮🇹 (@XtraAzzurri) March 16, 2026
i'm sorry but i cannot support Como. If they make Europe next year I will actively be cheering against them unless they change this...
Honestly, I always hated the title of Technical Director. There are so many of them in the US & Canada it’s not even funny. I think I remember reading there were more Technical Directors than coaches. What I want to know is, what exactly do they do?
******** Como, this is Italy not Spain, not a single Italian on the team this is not a positive for Serie A it's utter embarrassment.
Heck, everyone is criticizing all the Italian-Americans on the Team Italy Baseball team for not being born in Italy and then you have a team like Como without even one Oriundo and only two Italian players? How does this even make sense?
Massive win for Fiorentina. They must having the most Italian representation of players especially from the youth teams and conversations on making Azzurri. I mean Ndour, Fabbian, Fazzini, that is practically the U21 midfield that was so successful a year ago. It is such a blow they are doing so horrible in the table.
It was a fun game to watch, I really hope they start to turn it around, they have no business being that low on the table.
Viscidi oversees all the youth technical teams, he’s been one of the keys to the renewed success at the U21 levels. His focus is on skill and attacking. With Zambrotta and Perotta they started a new project with the U15 to youth levels to put technique and dribbling ahead of rigid tactics. It’s also to train coaches. Prandelli is supposed to be apart of that I don’t know what happened to him. It took those big losses to Norway to finally push this forward. It’s good but pathetic at the same time.
Where were these clowns in 2018 or 2022? I'm not holding my breath. Italian are good at presentations. It's what happens afterwards. Plans die in bureaucracy.
It's so weird seeing Parisi on the right side in attack. He always was a LB. He always had skill and acceleration but his size held him back on defense. Hope he gets a new lease on life in attack.
Como is the worst thing that can happen to Italian football. Sure, we see a system that can work and is more modern. But, we already know this from the beat downs we've been getting in the UCL. It does not help for a foreign owner to come in with a blank check book and put ZERO investment into our youth or Italians at all. Next thing you know more foreign money will buy Serie B clubs for cheap and try to replicate that model. Not good at all for our movement.
It should have happened with Baggio’s project once that got shut down, we were set back, what is it now 12-15 years