Italia campioni d’Europa – “Italy, champions of Europe” – studied the triumphant feature of the Corriere della Sera, Italy’s most-read daily paper, the day after the Azzurri vanquished Britain to win the delayed Euro 2020 football competition final summer. Fast forward less than a year and the air couldn't be any more different. “Behold the vanquish of Italy,” the same daily paper deplored taking after Italy's moment continuous disappointment to reach a World Cup. On Thursday evening, North Macedonia crushed Roberto Mancini's men 1-0, with a 92nd-minute objective from forward Aleksandar Trajovski. It finished Italy's chances of qualifying for the 2022 World Container in Qatar and comes after they fizzled to qualify for the 2018 competition, too. Over at Azzurri HQ, the environment is quite dreary. Roberto Mancini, the team’s chief, expressed that the “disappointment is as well great”, as Italian media outlets conjecture whether he may be on the way out. “Addio, Mancini?” (Goodbye, Mancini?) has been the tit
