{"id":3017,"date":"2026-04-03T06:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:32:21","slug":"report-mancini-confident-he-will-be-new-italy-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3017\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Mancini confident he will be new Italy coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are growing reports that Al-Sadd tactician Roberto Mancini is confident he\u2019ll be called back as Italy coach, especially if Giovanni Malag\u00f2 becomes FIGC President.<\/p>\n<p>The failure to qualify for a third consecutive edition of the World Cup is prompting a <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/italy-miss-world-cup-live-reactions-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:radical reshuffle of the authorities in Italian football;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;radical reshuffle of the authorities in Italian football&quot;}\" class=\"link \">radical reshuffle of the authorities in Italian football<\/a>, with Federation President Gabriele Gravina and delegation chief Gigi Buffon tending their resignations today.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gennaro Gattuso is widely expected to follow suit, so the search is on for both a new coach and a new President of the FIGC.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini eager for Italy return<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3071c6e6025b0e0e6bd243651314a0f2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Italy and Saudi Arabia head coach Roberto Mancini<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calciomercato.it\/2026\/04\/02\/si-dimette-anche-buffon-volevo-darle-un-minuto-dopo-bosnia-italia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Calciomercato;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to Calciomercato&quot;}\" class=\"link \">According to Calciomercato<\/a>, figures close to Mancini say he is confident of being at the top of the list, especially if Malag\u00f2 is chosen to lead the Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Currently under contract with Al-Sadd after a brief experience as coach of the Saudi Arabia team, Mancini had won the EURO 2020 tournament during his spell with Italy.<\/p>\n<p>That ran from 2018 to 2023, when he abruptly resigned just a couple of weeks before the EURO 2024 qualifying campaign began.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"666\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/08fefa3231d79720f71ca2b06067f6d1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Head coach of Italy Roberto Mancini, Team manager Gabriele Oriali and Assistant coach Alberico Evani look on during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Group A match between Italy and Wales at Olimpico Stadium on June 20, 2021 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Claudio Villa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The presence of Malag\u00f2 would be crucial, as he was President of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) when he had to take temporary control over the FIGC because it was unable to elect a new President in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are growing reports that Al-Sadd tactician Roberto Mancini is confident he\u2019ll be called back as Italy coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2451,5,2201,1221],"class_list":{"0":"post-3017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-giovanni-malago","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-mancini","11":"tag-saudi-arabia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}