World champion Gianluigi Buffon commented on Italy’s national team results in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Gianluigi BuffonLet us remind you that the «Azzurri» finished second in the playoffs. The team risks missing the third consecutive World Cup.
Buffon believes the problem is that the team is suffering due to past mistakes, when the national team relied on its stars without considering future prospects. Now it is time to choose a new path and build the team from the ground up.
«Italy is currently in a transitional period and does not know which path to choose. We are paying for past mistakes. Today’s national team results relate to twenty years ago, when we relied on Buffon, Cannavaro, Totti. We thought they would be around forever. But even then we had to rethink technical and tactical models.
We need to start from the very bottom: working with children aged seven to thirteen. Improvement is possible later, but talent develops earlier. We are communicating with Prandelli to understand how to approach this project, but we wanted to wait for the end of the World Cup qualification to finally decide...,» said Buffon.
