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ITALY fans have been urged to swap their shirts for Canada kits after the Azzurri failed to reach the World Cup. Italy missed out on a THIRD straight World Cup after a crushing penalty shootout defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina this week. Manager Gennaro Gattuso and Italian FA directors Gabriele Gravina and Gianluigi Buffon all...

Jimbo is back in the chair and joined by Duncan Alexander, Adrian Clarke, Natalie Gedra, with special guest Frida Fagerlund as the final six teams to play at this year’s World Cup are confirmed. It’s disaster yet again for Italy after penalty heartbreak in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Azzurri become the first ever former winners to miss three World Cups in a row. Where do they go from here? There’s shootout joy for Czech Republic though who beat Denmark, Sweden see off Poland and Turkey are heading to the World Cup for the first time in 24 years after winning in Kosovo. DR Congo and Iraq are also through to the group stages, and there’s another disappointing performance from England at Wembley. Plus, it’s FA Cup Quarter Final weekend with Man City hosting Liverpool as domestic football returns. Producer: Lucy Oliva Video Producer: Jake Liascos Listen to the audio version of the Totally Football Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or by following this link: https://podfollow.com/totallyfootballshow 00:00 World Cup Qualifying results 04:16 Bosnian bliss and Italian misery 15:44 Czech ecstasy and Turkish delight 20:55 Potter's wizardry for Sweden 27:52 DR Congo & Iraq 31:45 England v Japan 40:39 USA & Brazil 46:34 De Zerbi at Spurs 49:28 FA Cup preview Get in touch with the show: Email: [email protected] X: @thetotallyshow Instagram: @totallyfootballshow TikTok: @thetotallyshow BlueSky: ‪@totallyshow.bsky.social‬ The Totally Football Show is with you four times a week this season, giving you all the football news you need to know - and plenty that you don't. We've got views, stats and analysis from the very best football writers around. It's smart, it's funny, and it's totally free – so listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thumbnail: Jonathan Nackstrand, Pontus Lundahl / Contributor, Marco Luzzani / Stringer #worldcup #italy #sweden #england

Alistair Bruce-Ball is joined by Guillem Balague, Rafa Honigstein and Mina Rzouki who discuss the fallout after Italy fail to qualify for a third World Cup in a row. Mina gives an insight into why it's not happening for Italy and an issue with developing players in Italy and the type of players they want. Asmir Begovic, who played for Bosnia in their last and only World Cup in 2014 joins the pod and explains why a smaller nation was able to play with less pressure and how that worked in Bosnia's favour. Commentator for TVP sport Maciej Iwanski talks Poland as they fail to qualify for a major tournament for the first time since 2016 and have we seen the last of Robert Lewandowski in a Poland shirt? TIME CODES: 01:22 - Will the World Cup miss Italy? 06:00 - Italian fallout 15:15 - Transition & development issue? 19:15 - Fabio Capello the problem? 23:54 - Bosnia & Asmir Begovic 31:09 - The lack of pressure helped Bosnia? 34:23 - Commentator for TVP sport Maciej Iwanski on Poland 5 Live Commentaries this week: Saturday 4th April – 5:15pm – Men’s FA Cup Quarter Finals – Chelsea v Port Vale Saturday 4th April – 8pm – Men’s FA Cup Quarter Finals – Southampton v Arsenal Sunday 5th April – 1pm – Women’s FA Cup Quarter Finals – Arsenal v Brighton Sunday 5th April – 4:30pm - Men’s FA Cup Quarter Finals – West Ham v Leeds

Azzurri fail to make third consecutive men’s World Cup after loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jimbo is back in the chair and joined by Duncan Alexander, Adrian Clarke, Natalie Gedra, with special guest Frida Fagerlund as the final six teams to play at this year’s World Cup are confirmed. It’s disaster yet again for Italy after penalty heartbreak in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Azzurri become the first ever former winners to miss three World Cups in a row. Where do they go from here? There’s shootout joy for Czech Republic though who beat Denmark, Sweden see off Poland and Turkey are heading to the World Cup for the first time in 24 years after winning in Kosovo. DR Congo and Iraq are also through to the group stages, and there’s another disappointing performance from England at Wembley. Plus, it’s FA Cup Quarter Final weekend with Man City hosting Liverpool as domestic football returns. RUNNING ORDER: Part 1: World Cup Qualifying results (2:45) Part 2A: Bosnian bliss and Italian misery (7:00) Part 2B: Czech ecstasy and Turkish delight (18:30) Part 3A: Potter's wizardry for Sweden (27:50) Part 3B: DR Congo & Iraq (35:00) Part 4A: England v Japan (42:20) Part 4B: USA & Brazil (51:30) Part 5A: De Zerbi at Spurs (58:00) Part 5B: FA Cup preview (1:01:30) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy went toe-to-toe in a one-off game that would determine which nation would go into Group B of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, with the Bosnians winning on penalties. They played out a 1-1 draw through 120 minutes of football, and two missed penalties cost the Azzurri in the shoot-out. This was […] The post Bosnia And Herzegovina Vs Italy [1-1 (4-1)] – 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualification Playoff Final – Tactical Analysis appeared first on Total Football Analysis.

Roberto Baggio proposed an overhaul of talent pathway in 2011 but it was never acted on and the national team’s approach now is just not working The decline of Italy’s footballing expectations can be read in the headlines that greeted their third consecutive failure to qualify for a men’s World Cup. When the Azzurri lost their playoff against Sweden in November 2017, La Gazzetta dello Sport defined it as “The End” and an “Apocalypse”. After defeat by North Macedonia in 2022, Il Corriere dello Sport saw a country sinking “Into Hell”. On Wednesday both newspapers led coverage of elimination by Bosnia and Herzegovina with a simpler, perhaps sadder, “Tutti A Casa” – Everybody Go Home. What else is there left to say? Italians understood long ago that 2018 was not some aberration but the continuation of a trend, their team having failed to reach the tournament’s knockout stage in 2010 or 2014.

Italy will be absent from a third World Cup in a row this summer after they lost in the play-offs against Bosnia and Herzegovina, who instead booked their spot in North America with a famous victory.

‘It doesn’t feel like a shock anymore’ Italy’s defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina on penalties means they will miss out on a third consecutive World Cup. The fact this is the largest World Cup in history, expanded to 48 teams, compounds the devastation for Italian fans. But Nicky Bandini isn’t shocked anymore by Italy’s failure to qualify for football’s most coveted tournament. Subscribe to The Guardian Football Weekly ► https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/ Guardian Football Weekly podcast: Apple ► https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-weekly/id188674007 Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/show/6w8qWe0kjgHEHSWDSDGoLW?si=231c666f7f5a4453 Follow Guardian Football Weekly: Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/guardian_footballweekly/ TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@guardian_footballweekly #italy #bosnia #worldcup #football #soccer

Years from now, even the walls will speak of that night at the Bilino Polje