3 challenges ahead of Spalletti with the Italian national team

The Italian federation has officially announced the appointment of coach Luciano Spalletti as the new coach of the Italian national football team after former coach Roberto Mancini, who left his duties a few days ago after a string of famous victories. His arrival saw the team return to the crown as he clinched the European Championship title. With the final round of the European Nations League, Spalletti will face 3 big challenges in his new job.

Proof of Eligibility

Spalletti has never coached a national team in his career, but has been content coaching clubs since he started coaching some 30 years ago, especially in 1994, so his new job will be a special challenge for him, to prove that he can. He has also won national teams with crowns and titles such as Rome where he won the Italian Cup twice in 2007 and 2008 and the Italian Super Cup in 2007. Russian team Zenit St. His last title with Napoli last season was the most important of all.

Reconfirmation

The Italian national team has been living in difficult circumstances recently, with former coach Mancini’s changes involving his assistant technical staff without his consent making the atmosphere very tense within the team and he has come under heavy criticism. Calling up unknown players outside the Italian league, especially from the Argentine league, he was not very popular, while a dispute was burning between the coach and the Italian federation, which caused a drop in results since winning the Euro 2020 title. In addition to fiery statements from some players such as goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who confirmed that he no longer enjoys playing in the national team, and his teammate in the national team, Inter Milan’s star defender Francesco Acerbi.

Restoring the glory

The Azzurri national team has a large fan base outside of Italy, especially in Arab countries, thanks to many stars who have passed through the national team, and Franco Baresi, Giuseppe Meazza, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro, Francesco Totti, Roberto Baggio, Gianluigi Buffon et al. But the national team lacks big names that are spectacular and create crowd-pleasing in the current era, hence Spalletti who led Napoli to deliver amazing football last year. , to rediscover the stars in his country’s national team, by inviting the best players, must find the appropriate combination, not forgetting the role, the team’s defense, which is considered the most important strength of the team over the years.