For the first time since 1958 the Italian National football team has failed to qualify for the World Cup. After the poor show Italy gave us on the Scandinavian's home turf, everyone expected the four-time world champions to walk all over Sweden at home, but the match lacked goals and entertainment in general. The stale-mate match saw Sweden qualify to the World Cup finals taking place in Russia next summer, whilst Italy's path to glory came to a sudden stop. The Italians never had it easy being drawn into the same group as former back-to-back Euro-World Cup winners Spain for the qualifying rounds, but anybody with any slight familiarization with the sport know that Italy are top dogs. Italian manager Gian Piero Ventura has been sacked following the match, but the most tragic tales that resulted from this were the early retirements of Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and midfielder Daniele De Rossi. The combined appearances of these two Italian icons tally up to a wh...