Amr Obaid (Cairo)
The newspaper “Gazzetta dello Sport” published a long report, in which it discussed the possibility of an increase in the number of “Calcio” teams participating in the European championships next season, bringing the number perhaps to 10 full seats in all competitions. However, the matter requires a “special scenario” that guarantees “Seri” A “continental” presence in such a large number is unprecedented, despite the fact that Italian football representatives have not achieved major European achievements on the podium, except for a few rare times.
With the implementation of the new system for the Champions League next season, increasing the number of participating teams to 36 clubs, “Calcio” has so far secured 5 places in the “Champions League” despite not winning the biggest title in Europe in 14 years, as Inter Milan was the last Italian team. He won the title in the 2009-2010 season, which he did not succeed in repeating during the previous edition, after losing the final to Manchester City, and his compatriot Juventus preceded him twice, by occupying second place in the 2014-2015 and 2016-2017 seasons.
Despite the dominance of the Spanish and English teams, with a limited appearance by the German Bayern Munich, the new system that has placed “Calcio” at the top of the European classification currently, according to the recent results of its teams, guarantees it 5 seats in the first category, ahead of “La Liga” and “Premier League.” .
With Roma and Atalanta reaching the semi-finals of the current Europa League, La Gazzetta hopes that one of them will win the title, bringing Calcio closer to the possibility of obtaining 6 places in the Champions League, provided that the winner of them is not among the first 5 places in the table. The Italian League standings at the end of the current season, who are guaranteed their places in the Champions League according to Serie A topping the European classification.
The famous Italian newspaper set another condition, which may raise the number of Italian seats in the continental championships to 10, in a rare precedent, as one of the two teams, Roma and Atalanta, must win the European League title, and Fiorentina must also be crowned with the Conference League title, provided that the “trio” is present outside the top three positions. 8 is the first in “Calcio”, and neither Atalanta nor Fiorentina will win the local Italian Cup this season either, and at that time the number of “Serie A” representatives in the continental championships will reach “number 10”.
Whether this “imaginary scenario” comes true or not in reality, Italian football seems lucky with the implementation of the new European classification system and the overlapping rules of the continental championships, as it hopes for a large number of participants, despite the fact that its champions have been away from the podiums in the “Champions League” for years. Many, in fact, the quarter-finals of the current edition did not witness the presence of any Italian team, nor did the “Europa League”, which none of them have won since the end of the nineties of the last century, and only Roma and Inter Milan were satisfied with being runners-up in the 2019-2020 and 2022-2023 tournaments, against the same competitor, Seville, Spain, while the modern tournament, the European Conference League, smiled at the “Italians”, as the “Wolves” won the title of the first edition in 2021-2022, and the “Viola” finished runner-up in last year’s championship.
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