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Italy coach Luciano Spalletti reacted irritably to a journalist’s question following the holders’ exit from the European Championship against Switzerland. The Swiss dominated the Azzurri to win 2-0 on Saturday in Berlin and advance to the quarter-finals. A Swiss reporter asked Spalletti whether Italy had been a Fiat Panda and Switzerland a Ferrari. “You have to accept everything, even insinuations of bad taste like yours,” the 65-year-old said. “It’s clear that you are a person of great irony.” The coach and his press officer then explicitly asked the journalist several times for his name and …

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