{"id":4917,"date":"2026-04-08T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/4917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:04:06","slug":"conte-will-bring-italy-back-to-the-world-cup-says-ex-azzurri-winger-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/4917\/","title":{"rendered":"Conte will bring Italy \u2018back to the World Cup,\u2019 says ex-Azzurri winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Italy and Juventus winger Emanuele Giaccherini is confident that Antonio Conte will \u2018bring the Azzurri back to the World Cup\u2019 if he\u2019s appointed as the new coach.<\/p>\n<p>Conte has emerged as the leading candidate to become the new Italy national team coach and has already<a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/conte-figc-president-consider-me-for-italy-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:refused to rule out a possible return to the Azzurri\u2019s bench.;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;refused to rule out a possible return to the Azzurri\u2019s bench.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> refused to rule out a possible return to the Azzurri\u2019s bench.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Conte is what Italy need\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Giaccherini played under Conte at Juventus and the Italy national team and feels the Napoli boss is the ideal replacement for Gennaro Gattuso after the Azzurri failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the leader to rely on in difficulties. He prepares his players like soldiers for a battle, exactly what is needed now,\u201d the ex-Italy winger told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Nazionale\/08-04-2026\/emanuele-giaccherini-intervista-conte-nazionale.shtml?refresh_ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gazzetta.;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;Gazzetta.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Gazzetta.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConte has a way of working that gets under your skin. If you follow him, you grow. And for him, players give everything they\u2019ve got. He knows ot to create a unique bond with the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Giaccherini said Conte showed the same mindset for either club or country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis attitude was exactly the same. He manages to get his ideas across very quickly. On the pitch, you always know what to do; you\u2019ve practised it a thousand times in training, to the point of exhaustion,\u201d the ex-winger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the workload\u2026I remember sessions at Coverciano where we were throwing up. We needed oxygen masks to get through the end. We\u2019d leave completely drained.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sessions were brutal, but on the pitch, we were flying. He told us that performing well was our mission and that we had to be soldiers ready for a battle. We didn\u2019t have superstars, but our hunger made the difference.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"713\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3f9504998c12456ece339e9f788b1861.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the best. He\u2019ll take us back to the World Cup,\u201d concluded Giaccherini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s already shown he can do well with the national team. His track record says it all: he rebuilt Juventus, Inter and Napoli. And he would do the same with Italy, now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Italy and Juventus winger Emanuele Giaccherini is confident that Antonio Conte will \u2018bring the Azzurri back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2165,3649,44,5,139,170,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-4917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-conte","9":"tag-emanuele-giaccherini","10":"tag-inter","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-italy-national-team","13":"tag-juventus","14":"tag-napoli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}