Luciano Moggi has launched a scathing assault on the state of Italian soccer within the wake of the Azzurri’s third consecutive World Cup elimination, calling for Gabriele Gravina to resign and demanding that Sports activities Minister Andrea Abodi intervene to power real structural change.
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The previous Juventus and Napoli director, talking on Radio Tutto Napoli, drew a direct line between Italy’s present disaster and the fallout from the Calciopoli scandal of 2006, arguing that Italian soccer has been in terminal decline ever since its final main triumph.
“Do not forget that the final nice end result was in 2006, after we received the World Cup with a powerful management construction,” he stated, .
“From that time, with the daybreak of Calciopoli, Italian soccer was completed.”
ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – MARCH 31: (L-R) President of CONI Luciano Buonfiglio, President of FIGC Gabriele Gravina and UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin look on prior the FIFA World Cup 2026 European Qualifiers KO play-offs match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy at Stadion Bilino Polje on March 31, 2026 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Picture by Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)
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Moggi: ‘Italy damaged on the core: the fish rots from the pinnacle, Gravina should step apart’
On Gravina, Moggi was unsparing. “The nationwide staff is a mirror of the system, if now we have been eradicated thrice, it means one thing is essentially damaged on the base. The fish rots from the pinnacle, and subsequently Gabriele Gravina ought to step apart. He has been neither fortunate nor as much as the duty.”
His prescription for restoration was equally blunt. “We have to begin from zero, a complete clean-out. Minister Abodi ought to intervene severely. Sufficient speak: what is required is an actual revolution.”
The suggestion that political intervention will be the solely method to power significant change on the FIGC displays a rising temper in Italy that the federation is incapable of reforming itself from inside.
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Moggi additionally backed Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis in his requires a restructuring of Serie A.
“De Laurentiis is true, a basic overhaul is required as a result of issues can not proceed like this,” he stated. “At the moment now we have reached the purpose of being afraid of groups like Bosnia. That claims all the pieces.”