Yesterday the big news broke at the Renzo Barbera Stadium in Palermo in the semifinal of the play-off in Europe between Italy and North Macedonia. In the 92nd minute of the game, when extra time seemed inevitable, Trajkovski opened the scoring for North Macedonia, silencing an entire stadium, an entire country. A goal that left the Italian team, the four-time world champion and current European champion, eliminated from the playoffs and therefore out of the World Cup in Qatar.
In less than a year, Italy has gone from the glory of being European champions to the hell of seeing a World Cup again from home. And it is that this will be the second consecutive absence of the Italian team in a World Cup after Sweden also left them out in the playoff of the last World Cup in Russia 2018. A complete failure for the azzurra that is receiving a real storm of criticism in the transalpine country.
And in addition to being left without a World Cup, yesterday’s defeat marks a complete blot on the hitherto immaculate record of the Italian team at home. And it is that Italy had never lost any qualifying match for the World Cup or in the final phase of a World Cup playing at home.
A historic streak of 71 games in which he had achieved 58 wins and 13 draws, as journalist Pedro Martín points out on his Twitter account. Therefore, the only two teams that remain undefeated in this regard are Brazil (49 wins and 12 draws) and Spain (51 wins and 10 draws).
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