{"id":5883,"date":"2026-04-10T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:15:47","slug":"italy-appoints-u21-coach-silvio-baldini-as-interim-coach-for-upcoming-friendlies-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5883\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy appoints U21 coach Silvio Baldini as interim coach for upcoming friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (AP) \u2014 Italy Under-21 coach Silvio Baldini will take charge of the senior national team for next month\u2019s friendly internationals.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Baldini as interim coach was announced on Friday, 10 days after Italy again failed to qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s penalty shootout loss to Bosnia-Herzegovina \u2014 which meant the four-time champion will miss a third consecutive World Cup \u2014 led to the resignations of Italian soccer federation president Gabriele Gravina and coach Gennaro Gattuso.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old Baldini will step up for the matches against Luxembourg on June 3 and Greece four days later. Both are away matches.<\/p>\n<p>A new permanent coach will most likely be decided after Gravina\u2019s replacement is appointed, with elections called for June 22.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli coach Antonio Conte, who already led Italy at the European Championship a decade ago, is favored to return.<\/p>\n<p>Others being mentioned are Roberto Mancini, Simone Inzaghi and Massimiliano Allegri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME (AP) \u2014 Italy Under-21 coach Silvio Baldini will take charge of the senior national team for next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2170,4344,1637,492,5,2194,26,21,1655,2526,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-5883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-antonio-conte","9":"tag-baldini-interim-coach-italy","10":"tag-gabriele-gravina","11":"tag-gennaro-ivan-gattuso","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-massimiliano-allegri","14":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","15":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","16":"tag-roberto-mancini","17":"tag-silvio-baldini","18":"tag-simone-inzaghi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","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=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}