Rome, 8 June (LaPresse) – ‘It's clear that if you lose players to injury who you've been working with in the run-up to World Cup qualification, and the match wasn't played with the intensity it should have been, it's a problem. I don't even want to think about Italy without the World Cup.’ These were the words of FIGC president Gabriele Gravina, speaking at the Serie A Festival in Parma, after the Azzurri's defeat in Oslo against Norway. "There is also a lot of bitterness and great suffering. I've heard such negative comments from people who were already celebrating because we were already eliminated. It's the first of eight matches, there's no direct comparison, there's the goal difference, we'll play, then we'll have another chance, we have to go to the World Cup, so I'll face the problems and not cry about them," he added.
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