Alessandro Nesta, world champion with Italy in 2006, shared something that weighs on his chest every time he thinks about it: “My son is nearly 18 years old and has never seen Italy play in a World Cup”.
So one day he told him himself: “When I tell him we were world champions, he can hardly believe me. He replies: Really?”, he asked, like someone hearing a legend from another century.
For Nesta, that phrase sums it all up. A historic national team, four stars on its chest, and now an entire generation that only knows Italy outside the World Cups.