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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Rob Smyth

Italy’s search for a manager turns into a shemozzle of epic proportions

Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo Photograph: Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock

BLUE TUESDAY

What’s the Italian for omnishambles? According to Google Translate, it’s disastro totale. According to most fans, it’s Azzurri. Italy are one of the OGs of world football, a team with which a young Football Daily was obsessed as it swanned around suburbia’s meanest streets in a shimmering Diadora shirt, and we still can’t believe they have become the comedy country of world football.

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