Italy coach Roberto Mancini surprisingly resigned on Sunday, ending an an up-and-down tenure with the nationwide crew that included a European Championship title in 2021 but additionally a failed qualification for final yr’s World Cup.
The Italian soccer federation issued a brief announcement saying that Mancini communicated his resignation “late final evening,” including {that a} new coach could be named “over the following days.”
“I thank all my gamers and followers who’ve accompanied me in these 5 years,” Mancini wrote on Instagram. “I’ll at all times carry the extraordinary victory of the 2020 European Championship in my coronary heart. It has been an honour.”
The federation does not have a lot time with Euro 2024 qualifying matches in opposition to North Macedonia and Ukraine scheduled for Sept. 10 and 12, respectively.
Mancini took cost of the crew in 2018 after they didn’t qualify for the World Cup, having beforehand not missed a World Cup finals since 1958.
He guided Italy to success on the European Championship in 2021, however the crew as soon as once more didn’t qualify for final yr’s World Cup in Qatar.
In June, Italy claimed third place on the Nations League finals below Mancini. His crew additionally went on a run of 37 video games with out defeat between October 2018 and October 2021 — a file in males’s worldwide soccer.
“A big web page within the historical past of the Azzurri, which started in Might 2018 and ended with the 2023 Nations League Finals, involves an finish,” the FIGC stated in an announcement. “In between, the victory at Euro 2020, a triumph conquered by a bunch during which all of the people had been in a position to grow to be a crew.”
Data from Reuters was used on this report.
