Italy centre again Giorgio Chiellini has hinted at retiring from worldwide soccer after the Azzurri missed out on a World Cup spot.
North Macedonia shocked the world after beating Italy 1-0, a defeat that noticed Roberto Mancini’s males knocked out. Talking after the win over Turkey in a pleasant encounter, Chiellini has hinted he’s retiring from Italy.
“We anticipated to play a unique recreation this night and we can not deny that,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
“Thursday was a tragic web page within the historical past e book of our careers, we’ll all the time have a void inside us. However in sport, simply as in life, we will need to have the power to get again on our toes. At all times.”
“And these lads will write extra necessary pages within the historical past of Italian soccer, giving us all the identical feelings we had been lucky sufficient to expertise final summer season.”
“At all times and eternally, FORZA AZZURRI.”
With 116 caps, Chiellini is now joint fifth within the all-time Italy charts alongside Andrea Pirlo, with solely Daniele De Rossi, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluigi Buffon forward of him.
