Corriere Dello Sport:
“Everybody out!”
“After 60 years Italy won’t go to the World Cup.
Azzurri in tears, Buffon: ‘Forgive us’.
Ventura leaves, but he cant be the only one.”
Corriere Dello Sport also writes that Giampiero Ventura will not resign just yet. He says:
“I did not resign because I have not even spoken to the president yet. I came late to the press conference because I stopped to greet my players.”
“The match tonight confirmed that the group was there, I apologize to the Italians, but only for the result, not for the commitment”
Tuttosport:
“Everybody home!”
“Italy won’t go to the World Cup: It has only happened once, 60 years ago.
No goals scored in the play-off against Sweden, who only got an own goal in the first leg.
The shame doesn’t just involve Ventura, who won’t be the CT anymore, but an entire football movement.
Buffon in tears announces his farewell to the Nazionale.”
CT stands for Commissario Tecnico which translates to national’s football team Head Coach.
La Gazzetta Dello Sport:
“The End”
“Italy without the World Cup after 60 years.”
“Only a 0-0 draw with Sweden.
Does Ventura step down? ‘I have to speak with Tavecchio’.
The goodbye tears of captain Buffon: ‘A brutal conclusion’.”
The Swedish captain Andreas Granqvist is the player who got the best rating, 7.5/10
“The amazing thing is that Italy, or whatever remains of Italy, transformed this ‘slow’ Granqvist into some sort of Scandinavian Sergio Ramos. Stopped everything. Saved the match. “