Giorgio Chiellini: Destroyed, Jorginho's cries accompany Italy's failure to reach the 2022 World Cup

The bitter pill must be swallowed by the fans of the Italian national team. Gli Azzurri certainly failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup after the previous edition also ran aground in 2018. Not only disappointed fans, a number of players such as Giorgio Chiellini expressed his disappointment by saying his team was in a state of disintegration.

"I'm proud of this team who gave everything, obviously we were devastated. There will still be a big void and I hope this void will provide the energy needed to start over," said Giorgio Chiellini, as quoted by Tempo from Reuters on March 26, 2022.

As is known, the winner of the 2020 European Cup title had to be defeated against a team that had never before tasted the World Cup finals, North Macedonia. In the play-off semifinal which took place on Friday, March 23, 2022, Gli Azzurri North Macedonia under the tutelage of coach Blagoja Mailevski managed to shave Italy by a narrow score of 1-0.

Aleksander Trajkovski's last-minute goal put North Macedonia 1-0 on aggregate over Italy. This goal, as well as rewarding Italy, had to repeat the memory of failing to qualify for the 1958 and 2018 World Cups. "It's hard to explain, we played a great game but couldn't score," said Chiellini, who came on in the 90th minute for Gianluca Mancini.
"There is a big disappointment and we are not arrogant. We made mistakes from September to today and we will pay for them," said Chiellini's senior Italy defender.

Besides Chiellini, the reaction of disappointment also came from Italian midfielder Marco Verratti. Like Chiellini, he revealed that all the players in his team had given their best to dominate the game. According to him, Italy has the upper hand should be able to win the game.

"Difficult to understand. I think we dominated the game for 90 minutes and we should have won. We should have won," Verratti was quoted as saying by the same source.
According to Verratti, this defeat has become a nightmare for the Italian national football team. However, he said, in the game of football anything can happen. He called the failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup a disaster. "This is football, it's important to be clinical and ruthless. It was a nightmare," he said.

Penalty wandering, Jorginho's tears accompany Italy's failure to reach the 2022 World Cup

Italian national team midfielder Jorginho couldn't help but cry seeing the tragic fate of his team again failing to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
The player who defended Chelsea was fully sorry for not being able to help his team pass the eye of the needle for the second time in a row.
Certainty not to qualify for the Gli Azzurri was obtained after being eliminated by North Macedonia in the first round of the 2022 World Cup play-offs.

Taking place at the Stadio Renzo Barbera, Friday (25/3/2022), Italy lost painfully after conceding a goal by Aleksandar Trajkovski in the 92nd minute.

A goalless defeat against North Macedonia indirectly shattered Italy's dream of going further in the play-offs.
In fact, if Italy is able to win, they need at least one more step to get through to the main round of the 2022 World Cup.
If Italy were able to qualify as well, they would also make amends in the play-offs four years ago.
It's just as if like deja vu, Italy even failed again in the play-off round in this edition.
For the first time in history, Italy will not participate in the World Cup in two successive editions.
Jorginho also felt sorry because he considered himself to be one of the culprits for Italy's failure to advance to the next round.

A goalless defeat against North Macedonia indirectly shattered Italy's dream of going further in the play-offs.
In fact, if Italy is able to win, they need at least one more step to get through to the main round of the 2022 World Cup.
If Italy were able to qualify as well, they would also make amends in the play-offs four years ago.
It's just as if like deja vu, Italy even failed again in the play-off round in this edition.
For the first time in history, Italy will not participate in the World Cup in two successive editions.
Jorginho also felt sorry because he considered himself to be one of the culprits for Italy's failure to advance to the next round.

The Chelsea midfielder was noted to have failed to execute crucially twice in a crucial match against Switzerland in that round.
Jorginho admits that his failure to execute two penalties in a row will haunt the rest of his life.

"It's hard to explain what happened, it hurts so much, I still can't believe it," Jorginho told RAI Sport in tears.
"It hurts when I think about that penalty, it will haunt me for the rest of my life."
"Stepping there twice and not helping the team and the country there is something I will carry with me forever, it definitely weighs on me."
"Maybe people say we have to get our heads up and move on, but it's very difficult," he added.

Jorginho also seemed to consider his failure to execute consecutive penalties against Switzerland in the qualifying round seemed to haunt his life.
This feels natural considering that the failure was at a very crucial moment in determining Italy's qualification for the 2022 World Cup.
Now, Jorginho can only cry and remember that failure as a big lesson for his future career as a footballer.
Not only that, the failure also made Italian players only watch the 2022 World Cup from the small screen, aka spectators.