Four-time champions Italy will be absent from the World Cup yet again this summer, marking their third consecutive failure to ...

The dreaded shootout is often the deciding factor in tournament soccer.

Four-time world champions Italy failed to qualify for a third World Cup in a row after a devastating penalty shootout defeat by Bosnia-Herzegovina. No previous winner of the tournament has missed ...

Italy has won the World Cup four times, but will miss the World Cup for the third straight time as it sits out the 2026 ...

To understand the theory, we must go back to the 2006 World Cup final. That night, Zinedine Zidane was sent off after his ...

The story will be of another Italian apocalypse, yet another infamous occasion for a nation that has won four men’s World Cups but is starting to believe it may never go to another after missing out ...

Although Italy managed to dominate in the first half, the red card shown to Alessandro Bastoni changed the entire game. As a result, they were defeated by Bosnia and Herzegovina in a penalty shootout, ...

Any other exit would have been preferable. If Zinedine Zidane had missed the decisive penalty in the World Cup final shootout ...

The 2026 World Cup will feature many of the world's top national teams; however, a historic powerhouse like Italy will not be ...

Bosnia-Herzegovina qualified for their second World Cup courtesy of a penalty shootout victory over Italy Get the lowdown on every team at the 2026 World Cup. Here we take a closer look at ...

Italy has lifted the World Cup four times (in 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006), which puts the Azzurri among the most successful ...