JAKARTA - The Italian national team player, Jorginho, became a figure who felt guilty after his country failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. The Chelsea player remembered his failure to execute two penalties in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup qualifying European zone.
The two failures occurred when Italy met Switzerland on September 6 and November 13, 2021. In the first meeting between Italy and Switzerland, Jorginho missed a penalty in the 53rd minute.
In the second meeting, the failure was more painful. The reason, the execution of the Brazilian bloody player's penalty failed in the 90th minute. If the execution succeeds in scoring a goal, Italy is certain to win and most likely won't have to fall into the play-offs.
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"It hurts when I think about it, because I still think about it and it will haunt me for the rest of my life," Jorginho told RAI Sport.
"Twice ahead and not being able to help your team and your country is something that will be with me forever and it's a burden on me," he continued.
As previously reported, Italy failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar after losing 0-1 to North Macedonia in the European zone 2022 World Cup play-offs, Friday, March 25, early morning WIB. North Macedonia's goal was scored by Aleksandar Trajkovski in the 92nd minute!
Jorginho admitted it was difficult to explain what had happened. According to him, this is very painful.
"I'll be honest, I still can't believe it. I don't think we lacked creativity, because we dominated the game and created a lot of chances. Unfortunately, we couldn't beat them," said Jorginho.
"We played good football, we won the European Championship last summer but unfortunately in the last few games we made a small mistake and couldn't fix it."
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