{"id":3229,"date":"2026-04-04T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:03:49","slug":"italy-is-facing-a-tough-time-in-football-with-their-recent-failure-to-qualify-for-the-fifa-world-cup-sparking-widespread-outrage-and-political-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/italy-is-facing-a-tough-time-in-football-with-their-recent-failure-to-qualify-for-the-fifa-world-cup-sparking-widespread-outrage-and-political-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Is Facing a Tough Time In Football, With Their Recent Failure To Qualify For The FIFA World Cup Sparking Widespread outrage and political Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nation in mourning and anger following Italy&#8217;s failure to qualify for the FIFA World Cup after a defeat in the play-off match against North Macedonia .<br>The failure has transcended sports and entered the political arena. A heated debate broke out in the Italian Parliament, with the ruling and opposition parties clashing over the state of the sport in the country.<br>Following the &#8220;pathetic failure&#8221; of the four-time world champions, the country&#8217;s Sports Minister and various parliamentary members have called for the immediate resignation of Gabriele Gravina, the President of the Italian Football .<br>The land that produced legends like Del Piero, Roberto Baggio, and Andrea Pirlo, the atmosphere currently feels like Crematorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, failing again has put the future of Italian football in a state of deep uncertainty.<br>The Prime Minister was forced to address the issue in Parliament. While the ruling party acknowledged the poor state of affairs, they emphasized that now is the time to &#8220;rebuild&#8221; Italian football from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nation in mourning and anger following Italy&#8217;s failure to qualify for the FIFA World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3231,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}