Italy’s sport minister says football federation boss should step down after national team fails to qualify for third consecutive World Cup.Italy woke up angry and disillusioned on Wednesday after the national team missed out on the FIFA World Cup for the third time in a row by losing a playoff to Bosnia and Herzegovina, prolonging a sporting nightmare for the football-mad country.“The World Cup curse,” said the front page of Italy’s main daily Corriere della Sera, calling for rebuilding in a country that has produced some of the game’s greatest players but has won only one match at the finals since lifting the trophy for the fourth time in 2006.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHeadlines in La Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport, the country’s two main sports newspapers, said “We’re all staying at home”, in reference to another summer without a World Cup.Fans in Rome were left stunned after Italy suffered a 4-1 penalty shootout loss to Bosnia on Tuesday following a 1-1 draw, their third playoff defeat in a row after they lost to Sweden and North Macedonia.Italy went down to 10 men in the 42nd minute as Alessandro Bastoni was punished for a late last-man tackle, a key turning point in the match, with Italy leading at the time.“Everything went badly from the start of the match. The team wasn’t good, players out of form coming in and playing [anyway] … it makes no sense …
