{"id":625764,"date":"2026-09-24T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625764\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:06:10","slug":"davide-frattesi-reflects-on-roberto-mancinis-italy-return-gattuso-bond-and-zenica-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625764\/","title":{"rendered":"Davide Frattesi reflects on Roberto Mancini&#8217;s Italy return, Gattuso bond, and Zenica heartbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their strong relationship at Lazio, Frattesi confessed that neither he nor Gattuso ever discuss Italy&#8217;s painful World Cup qualification exit against Bosnia in Zenica. The midfielder admitted the lingering disappointment remains a bleeding wound for both of them, revealing he refused to watch a single match during the World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that even scoring dozens of goals for club and country will not instantly erase that personal anguish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gattuso and I haven&#8217;t spoken about that night again because it&#8217;s an open wound, still there and bleeding for both of us,&#8221; Frattesi added. &#8220;It will take time to heal. I came to Lazio because I wanted to return, and because Rino wanted me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite their strong relationship at Lazio, Frattesi confessed that neither he nor Gattuso ever discuss Italy&#8217;s painful World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15311,264577,85,46,2971,280471,105,252612],"class_list":["post-625764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-belgium","tag-d-frattesi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-italy-vs-belgium","tag-sports","tag-uefa-nations-league-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}