{"id":52738,"date":"2025-10-16T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gattuso-threatens-exile-if-italy-fails-world-cup-qualification\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:41:46","slug":"gattuso-threatens-exile-if-italy-fails-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/gattuso-threatens-exile-if-italy-fails-world-cup-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Gattuso Threatens Exile if Italy Fails World Cup Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gattuso: Exile Looms if Italy Fails the World Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Italian coach, Gennaro Gattuso, has stated that he might be forced to live in exile if the Azzurri fails to qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time.\n\nThe 2006 world champion took office in June and has helped revitalize Italy&#8217;s aspirations to reach next year&#8217;s tournament, which will be held in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.\n\nThe 3-0 victory over Israel secured a place in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, being Italy&#8217;s fourth consecutive win under Gattuso&#8217;s management.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I will take the credit if I manage to reach the goal, otherwise, I will go to live far from Italy<\/p><cite>Gennaro Gattuso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1016%2Fr1560952_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nCurrently, Italy is three points behind the leader of Group I, Norway. The Italians will play against Moldova on November 13 and will receive Norway three days later in their last group qualifying match.\n\nDespite the pressure of leading the four-time world champions, Gattuso said he felt honored to be in charge of the team.\n\nGattuso also expressed his gratitude towards the Federation, its president, and Buffon.\n\nThe Italian coach highlighted the importance of staying the course and the team&#8217;s hard work.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gattuso: Exile Looms if Italy Fails the World Cup The Italian coach, Gennaro Gattuso, has stated that he might be forced to live in exile if the Azzurri fails to qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time. The 2006 world champion took office in June and has helped revitalize Italy&#8217;s aspirations to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4107,512,104,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-52738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-gattuso","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}