The Italians definitely did everything backwards on Thursday night. Not content with having been knocked out of the 2022 World Cup play-offs by North Macedonia, the Squadra Azzurra also poorly illustrated themselves by leaving the locker room at the Palermo stadium, where the meeting took place, in a pitiful state. In a video shot after the passage of the internationals by a member of the Palermo club, the floor of the locker room appears to be strewn with all kinds of rubbish.
Images which did not fail to scandalize the country and forced the players to react with the voice of Leonardo Bonucci. “We made a big mistake, next time we will be more careful, promised the defender in the Gazzetta Dello Sport. In the disappointment, we have not thought of certain details that make the difference. In the next matches, we will ask for more material to manage and dispose of waste. We apologize. »
The communication manager questions the video
“It’s something that made us feel guilty, we have already apologized to the Palermo club, for his part assured Paolo Corbi, the communication manager of the Italian team. Unfortunately the weather was to the great disappointment and we had to fly back to Coverciano [le centre d’entraînement de la sélection] immediately. »
“Even if we have to say that the state of the locker room when we left was not exactly the same as in the video and that everything does not belong to us”, he nevertheless insisted on specifying. Not sure, given the context, that it is really necessary to add that. In such cases, it is best to play it low profile.