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Italy To Now Redirect Their National Pride Into A More Realistic Word Cup Campaign
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In heart-breaking news for your mate who installs marble and ceramic bench tops, Italy has failed to qualify for the FIFA world cup for the third time in a row.
This comes after Azzurri lost a qualifying match to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a penalty shootout in Zenica overnight.
The last time the Italians even took to the field for a World Cup was in 2014.
After 12 years of heartbreaking absence on the footballing world stages, today's disheartening news has caused the wider Italian diaspora to begin questioning what their national sport even is.
And considering the fact that they have played in more ICC world cups in the twenty years since they won the FIFA title in 2006, it's pretty clear that Italy is now a cricketing nation.
The Italians have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since they started taking the gentleman's game seriously in 1995, having previously been an affiliate member since 1984.
It goes without saying that over the last decade, they have proven to be far more competitive at both a test and T20 level than they have been at football.
And overnight, heir international cricket side, also known as Azzurri, has become the national team in which Italy will pin all of their national pride, hopes and dreams to.
With a handful of Italian-Australian school teachers from New South Wales and Queensland, as well as a number of Indian-Italian migrants, the REAL Azzurri now has an entire European nation behind them as they begin preparations for a far more realistic world cup campaign with the leather and willow.
Other alternative world cup teams that could potentially carry the weight of the Italian people include both the rugby union and of course, the rugby league world cup side, which has previously included the likes of James Tedesco, Craig Gower and both Anthony Minichiello brothers - all of whom come from Italy's ever-growing sporting engine room in Western Sydney.