Soccer-Italy's Mancini defends picking Euro 2020 heroes for disastrous World Cup campaign

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(Reuters) - Italy coach Roberto Mancini insisted his decision to keep faith with the same players who won the European Championships last July for the Azzurri's disastrous World Cup qualification campaign that followed was the right call.

Mancini's side missed out on the World Cup finals after losing 1-0 at home to North Macedonia in their playoff semi-final in March, their second successive failure to do so, having previously not missed a World Cup finals since 1958.

"We have a young squad, but no problem with loyalty from me," Mancini told a news conference on Friday to look ahead to his side's friendly clash with Argentina and their Nations League fixture against Germany next week. "Unfortunately, certain situations cost us as shown in the game against Macedonia, where there were many bad moments and then they scored from 50 metres in the 92nd minute."

 

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