Luciano Spalletti admitted that his dismissal suddenly from training the Italian national team affected him a lot, and that he could not sleep.
Spalletti was removed from the training of Italy on the eighth of last June, a few days after the heavy loss against Norway, with a score of zero/ 3, in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, which doubled the fears of the possibility of the Azuri team’s absence from the World Cup, for the third time in a row.
The Italian Football Association used Gennaro Gattuso to train the national team, succeeding Spalletti.
“This feeling never goes away, it keeps me awake all night, and affects me everywhere, because it always returns to me, sometimes I think I am happy, but after a while this idea comes back to me,” Spalletti said, on Saturday, in statements to the newspaper “La Reblika”.
He added: «I could not make the players understand my love for them, when I was offered to train the national team, I did not sleep for two days. The scar will remain painful even after it is completely recovered. Football has destroyed my life. ”
“I loved football more than myself. I sacrificed for her loved ones. My mistake was at first to be excessive insistence on that feeling of belonging and identity …
Spalletti was contracted in August 2023 to succeed Roberto Mancini, who suddenly left to lead the Saudi national team, and Spalletti signed a three -year contract until the 2026 World Cup.
In the first test of Spalletti, the Italian team came out of the round of 16 in the European Nations Championship, Euro 2024, after losing two goals against Switzerland.
Earlier this year (2025), the Italian team bid farewell to the European Nations League from the quarter -finals against Germany to go to a group of 5 teams instead of 4, in the World Cup qualifiers, to compete with Norway led by Erng Halland in addition to the highest -class Slovakia in the group.
The occupation of the group of the group remains the only way to qualify directly for the World Cup 2026 in America, Canada and Mexico, while the second place teams are playing the qualifying supplement that caused the deprivation of Italy (the world champion four times) of participating in the 2018 World Cup and 2022, after two losses against Sweden and Northern Macedonia.
