{"id":34930,"date":"2026-07-24T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/34930\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:00:10","slug":"pep-guardiola-declines-offer-to-coach-italy-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/34930\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola declines offer to coach Italy national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24 July 2026 14:48<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pep Guardiola has rejected an offer from the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to become the next head coach of Italy&#8217;s national team, delivering his final decision overnight, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said Guardiola informed the federation that he intends to take a break after concluding his tenure at Manchester City, <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caliber.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored, but I don\u2019t feel ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Guardiola&#8217;s decision, Andrea Pirlo has emerged as the leading candidate to take charge of the Italian national team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\udd34 Pep Guardiola refuse la proposition de la FIGC de devenir le nouveau s\u00e9lectionneur de l\u2019Italie, le technicien a donn\u00e9 sa r\u00e9ponse d\u00e9finitive dans la nuit. Il veut faire une pause apr\u00e8s son d\u00e9part de City : \u201cJe suis honor\u00e9, mais je ne me sens pas pr\u00eat\u201d. Andrea Pirlo est\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n2AzQFWwNo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/n2AzQFWwNo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guillaume Pacini (@Guillaumemp) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Guillaumemp\/status\/2080569143300870335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old managed Manchester City from 2016 to 2026, guiding the club to six Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League trophy, the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, the FA Community Shield, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Manchester City, Guardiola enjoyed highly successful spells with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, winning numerous domestic and international trophies with both clubs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">By Bakhtiyar Abbasov<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 52<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"24 July 2026 14:48 Pep Guardiola has rejected an offer from the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222,228,227,223,226,221,225,5,224,220],"class_list":["post-34930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","tag-international-experts","tag-interviews","tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","tag-italy","tag-news-from-baku","tag-news-of-azerbaijan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930","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=34930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}