Gattuso is Feeling the Heat After Italy Misses Out Again, and I Can Feel His Rage Through the Screen
Gennaro Gattuso is currently the manager of the Italian national team, and he has just overseen their failure to qualify for the World Cup for a staggering third-straight cycle. The Italian press is destroying him. The fans are rioting. But more importantly, Gattuso looks so angry in his press conferences that I am physically terrified he is going to reach through my television screen and strangle me.
Pure Unadulterated Rage
Have you seen Gennaro Gattuso when he is mad? He looks like a bulldog that was just denied a treat. His veins are popping out of his neck. He screams in rapid-fire Italian, and even though I don’t understand the language, I know he is saying things that would make a sailor blush. I watched a 30-second clip of him yelling at a journalist, and I immediately apologized to my empty room just in case he could hear me.
A Nation in Mourning
Italy missing three straight World Cups is a statistical anomaly that feels like a curse. The entire nation is in mourning, and Gattuso is standing at the epicenter of the blast radius. If I were him, I would simply walk into the Mediterranean Sea and refuse to come out. The stress of managing that team would cause all of my hair to fall out in 48 hours.
