Gennaro Gattuso, the Italian national football national team, expressed his regret for what the Palestinian people are exposed to in the Gaza Strip, stressing their solidarity with civilians and children who face the bombing and siege due to the continuous Israeli occupation aggression, which left tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded women and children.
Gattuo said, during the press conference that precedes his country’s confrontation with the “Israeli entity” today in the Hungarian city of Debrisin in the Group Ninth competitions in the sixth round of the European qualifying qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, that the Italian team is “unlucky” by playing against the “Israeli entity” team in one group, indicating that the matter is an irreplaceable reality.
He added: “The vision of civilians and children hurts me losing their lives .. But“ Israel ”in our group, and we have to play the match .. We are not lucky that the existence of the“ Israeli entity ”in the group .. What we see is painful, this is what I can say.
The statements of the Italian national team, which rejects violence against civilians in the Gaza Strip, have received great praises and interaction in the global media and on social media platforms.
The Italian team is ranked third in the ninth group with 6 points from 3 games, while the Norway team leads the group with 12 points from four games, while Estonia’s balance stopped at three points from five games, and he became fourth, and the balance of the Moldova team remained free of points in the last fifth place.