speak with Guardiola<\/a> about taking the Italy job.<\/p>\n\u201cThe best thing would be to announce the new coach this week, but even more to wait for the person we really want,\u201d Maldini said. \u201cSo there\u2019s urgency, but not so much inside us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ancelotti signed a contract extension with Brazil in May through to the 2030 World Cup, but the five-time world champion just had one of its worst performances on football\u2019s biggest stage as it was eliminated in the round of 16 after a 2-1 loss to Norway.<\/p>\n
The 67-year-old Ancelotti has won league titles in Italy, England, France, Spain and Germany. He is also the only coach to have won the Champions League five times.<\/p>\n
Four-time champion Italy missed out on a third straight World Cup after a playoff loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina in March, prompting the resignations of FIGC president Gabriele Gravina and coach Gennaro Gattuso.<\/p>\n
Gattuso had taken over from the fired Luciano Spalletti only the previous June with the squad already flailing following a defeat at Norway in its opening qualifier.<\/p>\n
Former Italy coaches Roberto Mancini \u2013 who led the Azzurri to the European Championship in 2021 \u2013 and Antonio Conte are also among the favourites to take charge of the national team. Andrea Pirlo, who helped Italy to the World Cup in 2006 as a player, is also reportedly in contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Man City and Barca boss Pep Guardiola is not the clear candidate for Italian job, as Carlo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[14410,7145,7,23751,62685,88,7146,817,18299,37344],"class_list":["post-954058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brazil","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-italy","tag-latin-america","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116974068895934373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}