Yeah, Italy is going through some serious demographic crisis currently. In 2024, there were only 370,000 births in Italy with the birth rate hitting a record low of 1.18, which is the lowest since 1861. At the same time, immigration is also rising as more than 5 million foreigners are residing in Italy. However, the immigrants are contributing positively towards the Italian football as they bring some fresh energy and ambitions with them. Thus, as the birth rate is dropping down, the gap is being filled by the huge inflow of hardworking and ambitious immigrants. It is a complicated problem, and one of the solutions can be promoting the acceptance in diversity of culture.
There are millions of immigrants in Italy, but the impact on sports is quite limited. Actually they should do more to attract ethnic Italians from Latin America and other regions. There are 25 to 30 million ethnic Italians (including Lionel Messi) in Argentina. There are another 32 million in Brazil. Remember that the total population of Italy is just 59 million. An influx of these Italians can go a long way in alleviating the demographic troubles, as well as to boost the performance of the national team in sports.
I really don't understand why you guys think that Italy has a problem with the number of people: between 1982 and 2006 Italy have always been one of the best teams in the world, during those 24 years we won 2 World Cup and we lost the final against Brazil in 1994 and the Italian population was more or less the same. Do we have a demographic decline? Yes, but it doesn't happen overnight. In football, just like in life, there are cycles, for years we had many incredible players and now we don't, hopefully in the future things will change but the solution for sure is not bringing foreign people with the hope that someone will be a great football player, it doesn't make sense.