After a penalty shoot-out loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy will now spend a third consecutive World Cup watching from the sideline. What happened to the country’s once-proud soccer tradition? And will it get back to the top anytime soon? The last time Italy played in a knockout-round match at the FIFA World Cup, it was July 2006. The iPhone hadn’t been invented yet. Twitter launched later that month. Netflix was still exclusively mailing DVDs. Italy beat France in a penalty shoot-out... [9074 chars]
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