Super Eagles legend Sunday Oliseh has attributed Italy’s failure to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup to lack of talent.
It was heartbreak once again for Italy after they lost 4-1 on penalties to Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Tuesday’s European qualifying play-off.
The game, which saw Italy play with 10 men from the second half, was decided via penalty shootout after regulation and extra-time ended 1-1.
The last time the four-time World Cup winner featured at the tournament was in 2014 in Brazil, where they crashed out in the first round.
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Reacting after the defeat to Bosnia, Oliseh wrote on his X handle:”Watching this World Cup playoff final for Italy is a nightmare. It is genuinely heartbreaking to see what happens to a great football nation when they miss back-to-back World Cups. Seeing them eliminated by Bosnia and missing out for a third straight time is more than just a bad game—it is a total disaster for the soul of Italian football.
“The team looks broken. The players have no confidence, they look like they’ve forgotten how to play at the top level, and the talent just isn’t there anymore. Having played in Italy myself, I can tell you I have never seen an Italian team play this poorly in my entire life. I feel so sad for my Italian friends back in Italy who have to live through this. It is alarming and deeply sad.”
As a Super Eagles player, Oliseh faced Italy in the round of 16 at the 1994 World Cup which the Azzurris won 2-1 despite playing with 10 men, thanks a to a Roberto Baguio double.
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Your team, the super eagles wirh the whole talents did they qualify???…
Your team with osimhen that one delusiional entity said is “very very good” nko??? (Even ronaldo, I can’t remember the last time ronaldo in his prime was described in such a fashion…)….very very good…
Good with two verys…….hahahahaha( pls grammarians in the house what part of speech is that? Lol..And this person goes by a forum name with a Dr….lol)
Did they qualify??
This will make it two consecutive world cup miss with the “very very good osimhen” and co
Oh! My bad….
They will qualify through the back door….
Abegi e….
Make we hear world!!!
Thank God the daftduck speaking is the one who moved from “Osimhen is not good”…..to “Osimhen is not all that good”…..to “Osimhen is not all that very good”…..LMAOooo, even when global legends have described him as World Class and ranked him amongst the top 5 in the world…….LMAOooo.
So who is the delusional nitwit here now….??? LMAOooo.
One minute the confused lout confesses the SE have talents, the next minute, you describe one of them as very, very good is an aberration to you…….LMAOoo…..and you think you are sane…..LMAOoooo??
If flipping opinions every 24 seconds is not the definition of delusion, we can only wonder what is….??? LMAOoooo
Eyaa…sorry ehn, you must have still been in diapers when Sir Alex Ferguson saw a teenage Ronaldo in Sporting Lisbon and described him as a very very good player. And your brain surely must now be in a vegetative state now that in his prime he’s described as the greatest, phenomenal, outstanding, exceptional……..LMAOoo. Grammarians in the house, please explain to this loudmouth illiterate how weightier these descriptions of Prime Ronaldo are beyond “very Very good”…….LMAoooo
“….Even Ronaldo, I can’t remember the last time Ronaldo in his prime was described in such a fashion….” LMAOoooo. Yeah, only people who have got brains have ability to remember things…….LMAOoooo. Brainless people have no business with remembering things……LMAOooo.
Thank you for bravely confirming to the world how brainless you are.
If the Henrys, Del Pieros,, Evras, Joe Coles, Chiellinis, Nicky Butts etc of this world can label a player “world class”, then a lay Dr is very very, infact absolutely correct to label the same player “very very good.
Mentally deranged being has gone from claiming Osimhen is not good to comparing him with Mbappe, Haaland, Ronaldo…….almost all the greatest players in the world….LMAOooo
I wonder how a player who isn’t good gets benchmarked with the greatest…..LMAOOoo
Common sense truly isnt common…..!!
Sometimes you need more than football talents and competence to win and qualify for World cup- luck and nerve control at crucial moments could work against you, and I am sure that is what Italy is suffering from most, Mr Oliseh.
Italy did not qualify for the World Cup in 2018, yet won the Euro 2020, played in 2021, beating England in the final at Wembley stadium, and many perennial UEFA Nations World Cup qualifiers in the process. As European champions you would expect them to easily qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar- the qualifier matches for which were played mostly in 2021, that they beat all European nations in Euro Championship- but they again failed to qualify for the 2022 Fifa WC.
Lack of seriousness at early stages of the qualifiers, until later stages when heavy damage had been done- like in the case of Nigeria in the 2026 qualification route- panic sets in and you become more nervous in your play that you cannot qualify outrightly from your group- sending you to playoffs where minor football nations can beat you by luck.
In the playoffs of 2022, it was North Macedonia that knocked Italy out, and in this 2026 edition yesterday, it is Bosnia that kicked them out- both countries no where near Italy in football pedigree and Fifa rankings. You could see panic and nervousness jangling the Italian players all through, fear of not qualifying for a 3rd consecutive FiFa world cup ate them up.