Even if the "pot-making maker" Ranieri has all kinds of magic, it is difficult to make up for the "black pot" of the Italian national team.

In the 2026 World Cup European Qualifiers, Italy lost 0-3 in Oslo to Norway, which has Haaland and Odegao. This defeat completely blew the Italian football industry, and eventually led to coach Spalletti resigning. Although this is only the first game for Italy to compete for the 2026 World Cup qualification, the whole country is already imagining the worst situation - missing the World Cup main match for three consecutive years.

The atmosphere of Italian football has just stabilized. With this crushing defeat, it disappeared again, and Italian football once again walked at a crossroads. At this critical moment, the fans and the Football Association also thought of a person - "pot-making maker" Ranieri. Italian fans shouted "Your country needs you." The Italian Football Association followed the public opinion and the Football Association Chairman Gravina took the lead in finding Ranieri in Rome. Ranieri's attitude is "he will stick to the promise he promised to the Friedkins family - he will serve as a senior consultant for the club Rome after resigning as head coach."

Although Ranieri's attitude is clear, the Football Association does not intend to give up. Ranieri is known as the "pot-making maker" because he often turns decay into magical works.

1995/96 season led Fiorentina, who had been promoted from Serie B to A, to win the Italian Cup.

led Monaco to the French Ligue 2 championship in the 2012/13 season, and in the first year of promotion to A, Monaco became the runner-up in the league at the end of the season.

The 2015/16 season led Leicester City, which had just advanced from the Premier League to become the Premier League champion, creating the most talked about "Blue Fox Miracle" in Premier League history.

In the 2024/25 season, Roma fired two coaches in succession in the middle of the season and was on the verge of relegation zone. Ranieri came out of the middle and brought Roma to the fifth place in the league at the end of the season, only one point away from the qualifying zone of the Champions League.

Ranieri's coaching experience started with Lamechia's vitality and finally Roma, with a total of 38 years of history, has switched teams 22 times, leaving footprints in 20 clubs, Cagliari and Roma are his only clubs to go in and out respectively. However, even if Ranieri possesses the "reconstruction technique" like Hua Tuo, he may have no choice but to face the "big black pot" of Italy. There are two reasons: Ranieri is well versed in the art of club "making up the pot", but he is "helpless" on the national team in 38 years of coaching experience, Ranieri has briefly coached the Greek national team, which is one of the few experiences that the old man does not want to recall. After the 2014 World Cup, Ranieri was appointed as the head coach of the Greek national team for a term of two years. In the 2016 European Cup qualifiers, after Greece's 0-1 home game, Ranieri, who led the team to only 4 games (1 draw and 3 losses), was dismissed.

The following year, Ranieri, who was already the coach of Leicester City, was regretful when recalling this national team coaching experience.

Choosing to become the head coach of the Greek national team was a mistake I made. I want to give it a try, because coaching the national team and the club are different. I led the team to play 4 games in total, and I only had 3 days of training in each game, and a total of 12 days of training. What can I do in 12 days? I need to rebuild a national team in 12 days, what can I do, I'm not a magician.

This passage actually conveys a clear fact that even though Ranieri is a "software" wizard, he needs a sufficient and necessary condition - sufficient training time, or long-term interaction with the team members. Against the backdrop of frequent European competitions, this is obviously not a condition that many national teams can give, let alone the Italian national team.

2: Ranieri's personality and philosophy are not suitable for the current Italian national team

Italian football is entering the darkest moment in the past decade. Spaletti's results in the European Cup and the European League have allowed the Blue Army fans to see Italy's hope and realize their huge shortcomings. 0-3 After Norway, all false and easily torn beliefs collapsed instantly. What Italy needs at this moment is not a wise man like Ranieri who is a mature country and good at getting along with everything, but a hardliner who advocates change, promotes Italian football innovation, and follows the new trend of modern football in power.

Ranieri's football philosophy requires patience and trust to change the taste of a glass of water like rock sugar dissolves in water. Italian football needs a kind of persistence, a new and more valuable persistence. I beg the Italian Football Association to give the old man some rest.