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Italy eyeing more silverware

Amazing how quickly Italy’s triumph at Euro 2020 has rekindled empire-building aspirations in the peninsula. Just four years ago, the Azzurri were at rock bottom after spectacularly failing to make the Russia 2018 cut. Now, all of a sudden, coach Roberto Mancini and his charges have ambition oozing from every pore, openly setting their sights on a hat-trick of European Championship, UEFA Nations League and the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

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