In the last week of Serie A, the number of Italian footballers starting in their teams was not even 30%.
After a week of tears and sadness over the Blues' elimination from this summer's World Cup, the reason for this failure is explained.
How many choices does a national team coach have, whoever he may be?
It's no longer played on the streets, children are immediately sent to football schools, young people are taught a lot of tactics, there are generations of young Italians who have never seen their country's representative participate in a World Cup...
A river of words, but they hide the most logical reason, the Bosman decision.
Given by the European Court of Justice on December 15, 1995, this decision prohibits leagues from setting a limit on the number of foreign footballers, the limit remaining in force only for non-EU footballers.
Of the most important championships in Europe, Serie A is the league with the most foreign footballers, but the difference with the others is not very large.
The Premier League and Ligue 1 have practically the same number of foreign players as Serie A, the Bundesliga is slightly lower and only in La Liga in Spain does it see the prevalence of homegrown talent over foreign players at 60%.
The question that arises comes spontaneously. Spain is a power in world football, but England, France and Germany are also going to the World Cup, why not Italy?
Perhaps because in Italy a young Italian footballer, in order to be active on the field, must benefit from the 'massacre' of foreign players in his role, take for example the case of Vergara of Napoli.
While in England, it happens that a boy like Dowman, 16 years old, manages to play some part in the game even though there are high-level footballers like Saka and Madueke in his role.
The best examples are Foden and Palmer, two talented footballers who have found space in teams very rich with foreign players like Manchester City and Chelsea, according to tch.
There is no shortage of examples and there is certainly no turning back, but establishing a rule that determines a minimum number of Italian players in a team would be a step forward.
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