Gabriele Gravina has resigned as the pinnacle of Italy’s soccer affiliation (FIGC) following their failure to qualify for a 3rd consecutive World Cup.
The four-time world champions suffered one other play-off remaining defeat once they had been crushed 4-1 on penalties by Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday.
No earlier winner of the match has missed three World Cups in a row, which Italy now have after lacking out on Russia in 2018 and Qatar 2022.
Additionally on Thursday, former goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who was working intently with the boys’s nationwide group, resigned as delegation head by way of Instagram., exterior
Buffon, who was a part of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning facet, wrote that with Gravina’s choice to go, he felt, “as an act of accountability”, he ought to do the identical.
“The principle goal was to convey Italy again to the World Cup. And we did not succeed,” Buffon, 48, added.
“It is truthful to go away it to those that will come after the liberty to decide on the determine they suppose is greatest to play my position.”
Gravina, 72, who’s the Uefa first vice-president, introduced his resignation following a gathering held on the FIGC’s headquarters in Rome.
He took the job in October 2018, together with his predecessor Carlo Tavecchio having stepped down following Italy’s failure to beat Sweden in a World Cup play-off the earlier 12 months.
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