The Italian football crisis added a new chapter after the elimination in the European repechage on the way to the 2026 World Cup. Gabriele Gravina submitted his resignation as president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) this Thursday
.The decision came just hours after the fall to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which left Azzurra without a World Cup for the third time in a row. The coup rekindled criticism of the management of Italian football and accelerated the
leader's departure.The federation itself confirmed the resignation in an official statement: "Today a meeting took place between President Gabriele Gravina and the presidents of the member federations at the FIGC headquarters in Rome. At the beginning of the meeting, Gravina informed the top representatives that she had resigned from her position
.” The boss had taken office in 2018, in the midst of a convulsive phase following Russia's absence from the World Cup.Despite showing signs of recovery with winning Euro 2020, frustrations continued to come, first with the unusual elimination in the semifinals of the repechage to Qatar 2022 at the hands of North Macedonia and, now, with the blow against the Bosnians in the final to enter the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada
