Italy has a football history and culture which very few can match, but some time around the late 90s they got complacent.
They failed to tackle their hooligan problem, they found themsleves with a load of stadiums which were mostly newly built or renovated but which quickly became outmoded, they fell behind in terms of youth development and they failed to sell their club game abroad like England and Spain did which meant the worldās best players stopped going to Serie A. The crowds drifted away as a result of all these.
All these problems have a long lag time to become properly apparent and the cracks still hadnāt properly set in by 2006 when they still had a really good generation of players and won the World Cup, but itās been downhill ever since.
All these problems are fixable with a bit of will, but bar Juventus which remains a very well run club, the will to tackle these problems just doesnāt seem to be there in Italian football, which is a dreadful pity.