Earthquakes in Italian football. The coach of the national team, Roberto Mancini, has resigned with immediate effect from the management of the team. The official communication was given by the federation, which announced that the successor will be announced in the coming days.
The news comes as a bolt from the sky, less than two weeks after the technician was appointed head of the Club Italia project to coordinate the entire sector of young footballers up to U20.
Despite the contract until 2026, Mancini surprised everyone and left after 5 years with great triumphs and failures such as winning Euro 2020 and not participating in the World Cup in Qatar 2022.
Immediately after this news, the dilemmas about who can be the successor have started and the most popular names are Luciano Spalletti, who led Napoli to win the Scudetto and Antonio Conte, without a team after the spring divorce with Tottenham.
"The Italian Football Federation announces that it has taken into account the resignation of Roberto Mancini from the position of coach of the Italian national team, received yesterday late in the evening.
Thus ends an important page in the history of the Azzurri, which began in May 2018 and ended with the 2023 Nations League finals; in the middle, the victory at Euro 2020, a triumph achieved by a group in which all the individuals on the day become a team.
Taking into account the important commitments for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers, the FIGC will announce the name of the new national coach in the coming days", the federation's announcement reads.