Roberto Mancini announces shock resignation as Italy coach

Italy coach Roberto Mancini surprisingly resigned on Sunday, ending an up-and-down tenure with the boys’s nationwide workforce that included a European Championship title in 2021 but in addition a failed qualification for final 12 months’s World Cup.

The Italian soccer federation issued a brief announcement saying that Mancini communicated his resignation “late last night,” including {that a} new coach can be named “over the next days.”

“I thank all my players and fans who have accompanied me in these five years,” Mancini wrote on Instagram. “I will always carry the extraordinary victory of the 2020 European Championship in my 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 workforce in 2018 after they did not qualify for the World Cup, having beforehand not missed a World Cup since 1958.

He guided Italy to success on the European Championship in 2021, however the workforce as soon as once more did not qualify for final 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar.

In June, Italy claimed third place on the Nations League finals beneath Mancini. His workforce 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 significant page in the history of the Azzurri, which began in May 2018 and ended with the 2023 Nations League Finals, comes to an end,” the Italian soccer federation stated in an announcement. “In between, the victory at Euro 2020, a triumph conquered by a group in which all the individuals were able to become a team.”

Information from Reuters was used on this report.