Goodbye Trap cry from Italian media

MICK MCCARTHY is not the only international manager facing waves of criticism. Calls for Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni to resign reached fever pitch after his side’s 2-1 defeat by Wales in a Euro 2004 qualifier on Wednesday.

Goodbye Trap cry from Italian media

Goodbye Trap, ran the headline in sports daily Corriere dello Sport. The editor of the Corriere, Xavier Jacobelli, has been one of Trapattoni’s most vociferous critics since Italy’s ignominious World Cup defeat by South Korea in June. Jacobelli’s editorial was characteristically combative.

“Considering the crisis of play and ideas Trapattoni’s team finds itself in, the only thing that counted yesterday evening was to emerge unscathed from the Millennium Stadium. Instead it was another disaster.”

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