Luciano Spalletti will stay as Italy boss after being given a vote of confidence by the top of the nation’s soccer federation.
FIGC president Gabriele Gravina confirmed the information at a media convention this morning, lower than 24 hours after defending champions Italy have been dumped out of Euro 2024 following a disappointing efficiency in shedding 2-0 to Switzerland within the spherical of 16.
There have been requires Spalletti to resign within the Italian media however Gravina believes the 65-year-old, who succeeded Roberto Mancini in August final 12 months, is the person to take the workforce ahead.
He stated: “Yesterday there was a protracted chat with the coach and I feel it’s unthinkable to unravel issues by abandoning a challenge that’s multi-year. You can not abandon the challenge after eight or 9 months.
“A coach who has been in cost for 9 or 10 video games is central to the challenge, and he can not at all times have all of the gamers out there.
“Spalletti has our belief, a brand new problem begins in 60 days and we are able to’t hope {that a} Cristiano Ronaldo, [Lionel] Messi or [Kylian] Mbappe will immediately pop up in Italy. We now have to worth the expertise that’s there in our nation.”
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What subsequent for Italy?
Consideration now turns to the Nations League adopted by the World Cup, a match Italy haven’t certified for since 2014, with qualifying getting underway in March 2025.
Gravina added: “These are the gamers we have now, we’re just a little additional away from the targets we had set ourselves, however we can not surrender.
“We have to increase consciousness as greatest we are able to and produce the perfect out of those younger guys. We all know that it might be an unimaginable catastrophe to not qualify for the World Cup thrice in a row.”
The Italy gamers have been “mortified” by their exit, in keeping with Gravina, who insists it was a collective blame for his or her failure.
“We met final evening, everybody was upset, the boys have been mortified,” he stated.
“The most important disappointment is that they weren’t capable of show the sacrifices they’ve made during the last 30 days. I’m not upset by them, quite by the efficiency. They’re the fellows we have now to proceed investing in. In 60 days it’s tough to seek out options that make an enormous distinction in high quality.”
