National team, what is Mancini doing? If he leaves the Cannavaro-Lippi tandem

The day after the defeat, the time to take stock is inexorable. But not only. Because there is already to think and (re) build the future of the national team. The ball then passes to Gabriele Gravina. Now the question is: what can the President of the FIGC do? His intention, reiterated, is to entrust Mancini to tomorrow, but it is clear that the coach has his destiny in his hand, in the sense that the FIGC will hardly not go along with his decision, whatever it will be: if he sees the conditions to continue the speech started and will choose to stay, the contract renewed almost a year ago until 2026 (not coincidentally, the date of the next World Cup) will allow him to work to open a new cycle. If, on the other hand, the coach considers his mandate closed, giving up the position, Gravina will, despite him, open the search for a successor.

the three roads

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And the FIGC will have three ways ahead, to design the future. A “homemade” coach: the most accredited leads to Fabio Cannavaro, with Lippi dt as per an ancient project. He is not a federal coach, but few like him (136 appearances and more than 13 years of national team behind him) identify with the blue and feel ready for a different career, after the experience gained in China. If, on the other hand, an expert technician, a “father of the country” who begins to work as Mancini had done on the rubble of a failure, the suggestion could be Ancelotti, if he were willing to consider his relationship with Real and the bench closed. of the National team as the only experience missing from his curriculum. A “playing” technician like Mancini, an educator of the same type of football, to give continuity to the work started four years ago. That yesterday he received a hard blow, but he was not disowned, regardless of the result. And that in any case he must remain a patrimony of the national team, so as not to have to start all over again.