The defeat at the “Bilino Polje” stadium left a deep mark among the four-time world and two-time European champions, deepening the multi-year crisis of Italian football.
“If someone had told me 12 years ago that Italy would be without three consecutive major tournaments, I would have rather believed that I would see 1,000 aliens than that this would happen,” said Buffon, who after the defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of those who resigned from the national team and the Italian Football Association.
He cited the competition in the team, the loss of tactical supremacy and the lack of top creatives that the Italians once had, such as Roberto Baggi, Alessandro Del Piero and Francesco Totti, as the cause of the multi-year failures.
(Vijesti.ba)
