Roberto Mancini leaves the Italian national team job

Italy manager Roberto Mancini resigned today, as he ended a very unbalanced period in which they triumphed with the EURO title in 2021 but also failed to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar.

BREAKING: Roberto Mancini has left Italian national team with immediate effect. 🚨🔵🇮🇹

Mancini and Italian Federation agreed to part ways, 10 months before Euro 2024. pic.twitter.com/fz2PgFeaZr

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 13, 2023

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The Italian soccer federation shared that the manager gave his resignation “late last night” and that they will hire a new head coach very soon.

Italy will play Euro 2024 qualifying games vs. North Macedonia and Ukraine on September 10^th and 12^th, respectively. Hence, the federation have less than a month until the next games of the national team.

Roberto became the head coach of Italy in 2018 after they failed to qualify for the World Cup as during that time, that was the Italian national team’s 1^st missing World Cup since 1958.

Mancini won the European Championship in 2021 after penalties against England, but again, Italy failed to qualify for the Qatar World Cup.