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Italian FA chief Carlo Tavecchio slams Gian Piero Ventura's team selection

Italian FA president Carlo Tavecchio blamed manager Gian Piero Ventura for getting his team selection wrong as Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup.
Ventura was sacked on Wednesday, 48 hours after Italy missed a World Cup for the first time in six decades.
"It was a technical debacle," Tavecchio told Mediaset's Le Iene programme." It was a technical mistake in how the team was picked.
"I've not slept for four days. We played badly. We needed to get past them [Sweden] -- all 1.90 metres tall...
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