the defender Giorgio Chielliniwho already said goodbye to Juventus and the Italian team, assured this Saturday that he would like to “change” his “history with the World Cups”, since “it has never” been a happy story.
the end with Italia It hasn’t been all that sweet for a Chiellini who was substituted at the break of the ‘Finalissima’match that the transalpine team lost 0-3 against Argentina, and was left out of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
However, the former Juventus player, He lifted the 2020 Eurocup champion trophy last summerItaly’s first success since the 2006 World Cup, after 14 dark years for Italian football.
“I would have liked to try to change my history with the World Cups, which has never been happy. I tried, but I couldn’t”declared in an interview with the publication ‘Sportsweek’, of the Italian newspaper ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’.
“In 2010 we went wrong in a more than affordable group, in 2014 we started very well but we complicated our lives losing the top seed position because then we played in really prohibitive conditions, with crazy trips, schedules and heat. In 2018 we didn’t even qualify and I had this great regret,” he explained.
The central charismatic, very close to signing with Los Angeles FC, of the MLS American, pointed out in the same interview that if he had qualified for Russia 2018, he probably would have left the ‘Azzurra’ once the championship was over.
“I think if we had qualified for Russia, I would have left the national team after that World Cup. And it probably would have hurt me, because then I had my best years.”said.
“After the non-qualification for the 2018 World Cup I was so devastated that I wanted to say goodbye to the national team. Gabriele Oriali (former soccer player) it made me think”he added.
Furthermore, the EURO 2020 champion revealed his best moment during that competition: “The bus on the way to the stadium: (Salvatore) Sirigu wrote me words that made me want to cry.”
“I was lucky enough to play in all the national teams, from the U-15 onwards. This is the only shirt that unites the whole country, it goes beyond any one club”sentenced.