Serie A Teams A Shame To Football

It's strange to think that no Italian team made it to the quarter finals of either the  Champions League or the Europa League. Uefa saw that the coefficients would not benefit some of the big leagues in the world and undoubtedly Serie A was that league.

When the decision came out for the winner of the Europa League to play in the Champions League,  Italian teams should have embraced it in the best of fashions and given it a great shot.

Roma did not believe they could win against Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo and after the first leg it was accepted that they were out and rightly so because you don't lose in Rome and expect to progress in Madrid.

Juventus have been the torch and face of Serie A in a Europe for the past two years but how could they blow up a two goal lead at the Allianz arena when they knew that Italy needs to progress in order to get more teams in the Champions League. They have disappointed the lovers of serie A and to loyal fans of the Italian game,they  have let us down.

Another point that should be made rests on Lazio, Fiorentina and Napoli.  At the start of the second round of the Europa League Italy had three commanding teams of the old seven sisters and they were all doing great. But  heading into the quarters and there is no Italian team meaning for the third year running, Serie A would play with three teams in the Champions league and as per the draw for the preliminary qualifications,  one team could be eliminated back to the Europa League.

Lazio, Fiorentina and Napoli have failed to carry the torch for the second tier competition in Europe.

The question is if Italian teams cannot compete in the Europa League then  how are their chances with regards to the Super elite Champions league?

Simply put they have let fans of Italian soccer down and a shame to football.

Europa League Should Be Italy’s Fourth Spot In The Champions League

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Italian teams have become preposterous in some of their planning. Lovers of the Italian game simply cannot come to terms why Uefa under Michel Platini has come up with such a great idea that the winner of the Uefa Europa League would be given an automatic berth to the Uefa Champions League and Italian teams failed to capitalize on such a great opportunity when Fiorentina and SSC Napoli made it to the semi-finals of the competition last season.

This season seems to be a great season for the three teams carrying the flag of the Serie A thus Napoli, Fiorentina and SS Lazio. Napoli has been in scintillating form and Fiorentina seems to have finally found the ground to scoring goals and winning matches back to the days where Roberto Baggio and Gabriel Batistuta made Florence a place where beautiful women and football was sort after, but they would have to bounce back after the loss to Lech Poznan.

Italian Serie A must win the Europa League season in an season out although it might seem a daunting task, the last four competitions experienced in Europe being the Champions league and Europa league has seen La liga win them all, Barcelona and Madrid winning the champions leagues and Sevilla winning the Europa League back to back.

Where are the days of Claudio Gentile who were more interested in the pride of playing football, defending your team and the league at large? It seems the days of Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Franco Baresi, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Giuseppe Favalli would never be seen again because of the less dedication and urgency being meted out by current footballers in the Italian Serie A.  

Serie A shocked the footballing world by spending more money than other leagues which came as a surprise from the footballing world because of the new crude method of joint ownership of players where players are bought from next to nothing. But frankly how has the Italian Serie A benefitted from such sales. It is not looking good for a league with so much tactics, abundance in skilled managers and great former footballers to be experiencing such embarrassment in Europe. The FIGC should not be there waiting for things to improve because contemporary footballers are more interested in making money than playing football.

Cristiano Ronaldo has broken Raul’s record but he still wants to score more goals. Lionel Messi has won the Champions league four times and would still want to win, why, because there is what we call urgency and a desire to do more.

Serie A needs to up their game; players in Serie A should in no way use the league as a stepping stone to getting bigger deals at other clubs because the Italian Serie A is the most competitive league this season with middle table clubs occupying the greatest spots.

This season lovers of Italian football are keeping a close eye on all the teams playing in Europe and once again they cannot fail Italian football. Forza Italia, Forza Serie A, Forza Football.