Ranieri, say no you can but in this way it is damage to Italy

Why does the national football team risk staying out of the world championship for the third time? There are, of course, numerous technical reasons, we can start from the football schools, to speak of the little space to the young Italians, and to dissect them all as we do every time we are on the brink of the abyss. But then there is a deeper reason that perhaps we need to say once and for all: because it doesn’t care. Or at least it doesn’t affect enough. To players, clubs, coaches and even fans. When the global village of the ball is furious, using words like “traitor”, who should not find citizenship in these contexts, and wonders offended because a technician said no to continue to train the heart club but think of saying yes to the national team, as if this were a team in competition, or, worse, a reason for deminutio, already wants to say that we are not there. The overturning is accomplished.

Once, with a patriotic rhetoric that is not regretted, “traitor” was those who abandoned the homeland, now it is those who want (wanted) to serve it, because the good considered supreme is that of the club. This is what happened on the Piazza di Roma with Claudio Ranieri, but it is what could have happened anywhere, in the same situation. It is the same feeling that pushes an important player of Inter, Francesco Acerbi, that makes reasons of pride and a personalism prevail (on which we do not want to enter the merits) on the sense of belonging that it should give the shirt of Italy. Spalletti was not any coach with whom he had quarreled, he was the coach of Italy. It is always a somewhat coarse operation to look for lessons for life or society in sport, but this prevailing of the interest of shop, of the “particle” (to put it with Guicciardini) on the common good, understood as that of the community to which you belong (and to which you owe its history), is a widespread act of self -harm.

And we come to Ranieri. Premise: when the choices concern their professional and life future are always legitimate (all the more so when they were certainly painful), so it was completely legitimate by Ranieri’s part of the decision, already communicated to Rome, that he no longer wants to train. But it was said right away. A man of his experience cannot fail to have understood the emergency situation in which the national team pays and consequently the damage he finished to cause all the movement with his back. In the same way, it is legitimate that a property, in this case the Friedkin, who has set their choices on Ranieri’s No (signing on burdensome contracts with him for the role of consultant and with the new coach Gian Piero Gasperini) has objections to move, but, again, they were immediately expressed clearly. It is true that, after the defeat with Norway things have fallen, but with the certainty of having Ranieri’s yes in his pocket, the Federation faced an exemption that perhaps could be managed differently.

Certainly, the Italy of the ball would have spared this impasse that not only does not benefit the image, but from which it is not easy to go out. The way also arouses some perplexities and screeches with the elegance of a splendid seventy -year -old gentleman: such a choice cannot be communicated to the federal president via Whatsapp, as the boys do when they do not have the courage to leave their girlfriend. In any case, now what do you do? There is little time. Even Guardiola, or you choose the greatest coach in the world, would struggle to give her technical brand in a handful of games and already all decisive, with little time to get to know and train players. It is necessary to focus on more character skills, on a coach capable of giving a shock, and to bring out the maximum from a team that will not have a champion, but it is not even at the levels seen in the last games. Direct qualification is compromised, but passing the shift in the playoffs is a goal that cannot be missed. As long as someone really cares.