In the 2023 World Cup against New Zealand and France, the hosts, it is difficult to achieve the quarter-finals

It could have been worseItaly From Football because I am world Cup In France in 2023? No, not even if Hurricane Hagibis, which destroyed the World Cup in Japan last year, returns. The Azzurri coach Franco Smith signed in Group A with New Zealand (who will play in Marseille) and with France (in Paris) more, invited to serve as extras, the best Americans and the best Africans. Having said that going into the quarter-finals, we can calmly think about the 2027 World Cup where at least for now, without knowing the opponents, we can hope to beat the preliminary stage for the first time and reach the quarter-finals, a paradise never reached from During the Italian rugby that continues and will continue to tumble the prisoner in limbo: the worst of the best and the best of the worst. His fault, mind you, almost his fault, because it is also true that the oval is still hardened: at the World Championships in Europe in fact, the only doubt, with 20 teams at stake, is relegated to the challenge between Japan and Argentina: which of them Will move to the quarters? (Argentina is the answer anyway.)

Indeed, rugby has been in the hands of the well-known descendants of the British Empire as well as France for three centuries, who have done little or nothing to widen the audience of interest because their business is still going well, if we exclude this season of Covid epidemics. Not to mention that the World Cup was held only in 1987 and so far only 4 countries have won it: New Zealand, South Africa, Australia (that is, 70 million people among the three countries) and England only once. In short, not only bad luck, which sees well with Italy since its inception – the challenge (Fabe) between New Zealand and the Azzurri 6 times out of 10 copies of the World Championship.