Mini Episode 2: Heartbroken, Devastated, Italy Fail

About this episode

Steve Bennett discusses Italy's failure to qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time, sharing his emotional response and analysis of the situation.

For the second time in podcast history, this episode doesn't have a guest. Steve returns alone to do the hardest podcast he has ever had to do. Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third consecutive time. What went wrong? Who is to blame? Now what? Steve tries to answer all of these questions, tells us why he's more sad than mad, and explains why he still believes in the blue shirt. There are tons of emotions here. Be gentle. For more information follow the podcast on twitter @sports_casters Email: thesportscasters@gmail.com

People in this episode

Host: Steve Bennett

Topics covered

• Italy football
• World Cup qualification
• emotional response
• sports commentary
• failure analysis

Keywords

• Italy
• World Cup
• football
• qualification
• emotions
• sports podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Italy

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