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Japanese broadcaster pleads with Italy: Please qualify. I don't want to experience the nightmare again

2026-03-31 20:29:21Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Japanese broadcaster pleads with Italy: Please qualify. I don't want to
Yoshitaka Kitagawa

Yoshitaka Kitagawa is DAZN's main commentator in Japan for Serie A and for the Italian national team matches, paired with technical analyst Katsuya Hosoe, a bit like Caressa and Bergomi: both of them also followed Italy's last match against Northern Ireland, which gave Gattuso's team a ticket to the play-off final against Bosnia, which could give Italy, after a 12-year absence, qualification for a World Cup.

Commentator Yoshitaka Kitagawa's appeal

Kitagawa is known not only for his unmistakable style, but also for the passion (not to mention outright fandom) with which he comments on Italy. Precisely for this reason, the prospect of another World Cup without the Italian national team is something he does not even want to think about. For this reason, he has recorded a video message containing an almost desperate appeal to Gattuso's men, engaged tonight in the scorching atmosphere of Zenica.

"Forza Azzurri! This time you must qualify! " begins the Japanese journalist, very excited with the national team jersey on. "It's been 12 years since our last World Cup. I thought we would make it this time and instead we were humiliated by the Norwegian monster! For the third time in a row in the play-offs! In 2018 we lost to Sweden, in 2022 to North Macedonia and we didn't qualify. Do I have to experience that nightmare again?"

Kitagawa explains that another failure for the Azzurri would have devastating consequences for his job as well: "If you don't qualify, what matches will they make me commentate at the World Cup? Please Italy, qualify! Make me commentate an Italy match at the World Cup. I want to live that burning moment of qualifying for the World Cup."

Words spoken theatrically, while covering his face with his hands, gesticulating in despair, moving from images of Haaland to those of the defeat against North Macedonia, to the final prayer with his hand on his heart and a bow in between.

Yoshitaka Kitagawa has lived in Italy for years, speaks Italian and has many contacts with the world of Italian football. In addition to television commentary, in Japan he hosts programs where he talks only about Serie A and the Azzurri national team.


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