(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 26 – “The elimination of Italy is difficult to accept, especially for an Italian who lives in Qatar: for me the bitterness has increased tenfold”. Word of Andrea Stramaccioni, former coach (among others) of Inter and Panathinaikos, since last July on the Al Gharafa bench in the Gulf country. The Qatari “are shocked, almost heartbroken by the absence of the Azzurri at the World Cup – explains the coach on the phone with ANSA – For them it is a great loss not to host the European champions, given that they consider ours one of the realities. most important football clubs in the world “.
Not only that: the Aspire School itself, Doha’s training center of excellence for young players, “has Italian characters in relevant positions”. Even the Emir, on the sidelines of the Cup final to which Stramaccioni led his club on 18 March, “commented on the fact that any match against Ronaldo’s Portugal would have excluded a protagonist”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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