How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Italians are calling it the apocalypse. Their team has failed to make it to the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. But it is about more than just national pride - there is a financial cost too. Some have suggested that it will cost FIFA $100m. Is this really true? We speak to sports writer Graham Dunbar who has been counting how much money football's world governing body might lose out on. Also we fact check the claim that 45% of Nigerian women marry before their 18th birthday. Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Xavier Zapata
(Image: Alessandro Florenzi of Italy at the end of the FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualifier play-off, November 13, 2017. Credit: Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
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| 0:36.2 | Welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service, your statistical guide to the The Italian newspapers are calling it the end. The apocalypse. |
| 0:57.0 | Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. The team lost 1-0 to Sweden in a |
| 1:07.1 | playoff in Milan as the final whistle blue the Italian |
| 1:13.4 | Luigi Bufon, Italy's goalkeeper and all-round national hero Good Guy |
| 1:18.3 | spoke for the nation. I'm sorry I am sorry I am sorry because we have sorry. |
| 1:33.0 | Because we have failed at this moment. |
| 1:37.0 | I am sick, as a parrot. |
| 1:41.0 | Italy, is sick as a parrot. |
| 1:42.0 | Italy is sick as a parrot. Italy, Italy is sick as a parrot. The parrots, the parrots, they are sick. |
| 1:50.0 | Sorry. perhaps keep up with those Italian lessons. So the human suffering is clear, but there's |
| 2:06.4 | also a financial cost which our reporter, Javier Zapata, has been looking into. |
| 2:11.6 | Yes, it's been a tough story for me to look into because I come from a Chilean family and |
| 2:15.8 | sadly Chile also failed to qualify. |
| 2:18.1 | Oh no. |
| 2:19.1 | Yeah, it's, yeah, it's been really sad. |
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