The very hard win he suffered at the hands of Norway decreed the end of a cycle of almost two years, to avoid a possible loss of his third consecutive world cup. Ranieri and Mancini Pican in Punta.
Italy's team fired Luciano Spalletti from the position of technical director After the very hard win 3-0 suffered in front of Norway in Oslo, for the first date of the UEFA qualifiers to the 2026 World Cup. Before the fear of missing the World Cup for the third consecutive time -rusia 2018 and Qatar 2022 were the previous ones-, the Italian Federazione Giuoco Calcio preferred to cut for the holy and began to shuffle some historical alternatives.
The way in which Azzurra fell into the Nordic team caused great concern within the entity that regulates calcium and especially its president, Gravina Gravina. Despite culminating its cycle, Spalletti will direct Monday's duel, at 3:45 p.m. Argentina, in front of Moldaviaa match (like everyone who will have ahead) where it already knows that it is imperative to win and for broad goal difference.
Norway's first goal against Italy
Norway's second goal against Italy
Norway's third goal that ended with the Spalletti cycle
The former Inter and Rome coach arrived in September 2023 and failed to reap titles. In total, he directed 23 games, between Nations League, Eurocup and qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, and He won 11 wins, six draws and six losses. However, he had fallen in the round of 16 in 2024 at the hands of Switzerland and had lost three of the last five matches.
Candidates to replace Spalletti in the Italy selection
The first name that transcended is that of Claudio Ranieriwho left the position of technical director of Rome to become its sports director in what is his second retirement from the activity as a coach; Although they say that it should not with bad eyes close its historic career in front of the national team, which never handled so far.
The other option is that of Roberto Mancinicurrently free after a brief cycle at the head of the selected Saudi Arabia and that was in command of the Azzurra between 2018 and 2023, a cycle where he failed to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar 2022 but if he managed to shout champion of the Eurocup 2021.
The imminent commitment to Italy against Moldova is a great challenge since it has to cut the enormous goal difference that separates it from the current Norwegian leaderthat in his first three commitments he obtained a ideal 9 -point score and a +10 difference against -3 without points currently possessed by Azzurra (with two less games). A goal of cutting as much as possible that difference for the meeting back in November, where it is probably defined who will classify directly and who should cross the repechage.
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