Bonucci claims experience could have helped Italy at EURO 2024 | OneFootball

Juventus and Italy legend Leonardo Bonucci has suggested that his experience may have helped the Azzurri at EURO 2024 this summer, but admits that ‘one individual’ doesn’t always make the difference.

The 37-year-old, who called it a day on his playing career at the end of the 2023-24 season, had been targeting a place in the EUROs squad at the beginning of the campaign, but he admits it became less of a realistic target as time went by.

Bonucci left Juventus for a second time in the summer of 2023, and sealed a move to Champions League newcomers Union Berlin, but he only managed 10 appearances in all competitions before terminating his contract midway through the season.

From there he went on to join Fenerbahce in the Turkish Super Lig, where he found more consistent minutes in the first team, but that was not enough for him to earn a call up to Luciano Spalletti’s Italy squad.

Bonucci believes experience could have helped Italy

Speaking in a feature interview to Cronache di Spogliatoio, Bonucci said that a call-up to the Italy national team squad for the European Championship “was the thing that pushed me to carry on this year. It was a goal, but as time went by and with the change of coach, I understood that the possibility (of going to EURO 2024) might not have been there anymore.

“Obviously when you see your brothers and teammates with whom you have fought before, that desire to say ‘I could have given them a hand’ comes to mind. One individual doesn’t make the difference, I could have helped with experience, but things went as they did.”