the 3 errors at the basis of the failure and why 4 were committed. Reminder for Quesada new coach from today

The omelette in mid-2021 was already sizzling in the pan when the new president Marzio Innocenti and the new coach he chose Kieran Crowley opened the “2023 World Cup” dossier for the first time. There wasn’t much to invent other than to avoid letting it burn, because the December 2020 draw had given us another impossible World Cup. The presence in our pool of New Zealand and France (hosts), both candidates for the final victory of the Cup, had already in that December made Italy’s tenth consecutive failure to reach the quarter-finals engraved in stone. It’s not a demerit, Innocenti and Crowley weren’t even in office when Fate condemned us. Only the top two from each pool advance to the quarter-finals, ergo the All Blacks and Blues. An objective reality in an honest game like rugby.

Nor could it be defined as a minimum objective result to achieve automatic qualification for the 2027 World Cup linked to two obvious and necessary victories against the minor opponents who would be there in the short term. Beating, and well, Namibia and Uruguay must be a given for a Six Nations team like Italy, otherwise there’s no point in even being here talking about rugby.

Well, Innocenti and Crowley should have taken note that, as far as the World Cup was strictly concerned, all the imaginable antidotes had to be prepared in two years, together and with the utmost agreement, to mitigate the beatings from the All Blacks and France. Antidotes were even more necessary after the poule calendar, then artfully set up by the organizers to formally keep us alive as much as possible, had scheduled the matches against New Zealand and Bleus after the easy ones: in short, they would have been two “in or out” matches. outside” even if only on paper, because we were already outside.

And even more necessary after we had finally managed to bring those two impossible matches live to prime time on Rai2: a notable step forward for the promotion of rugby which should not have turned into a boomerang for the national team, an indispensable driving force for the oval movement Italian. And instead two devastating blows arrived. The worst World Cup ever has arrived apart from 1999 (3 knockouts out of 3). Omelette charred and inedible in front of the TV on those two evenings live.

Three mistakes that can be reminded of the new coach Gonzalo Quesada, Argentine, who today 31 October will be presented in Rome to start training the Azzurri from 1 January 2024 in view of the Six Nations.

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