{"id":721882,"date":"2026-06-07T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721882\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:58:08","slug":"international-friendly-liveblog-greece-vs-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721882\/","title":{"rendered":"International Friendly Liveblog: Greece vs. Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page will update live with the latest relevant news, no need to refresh the page!<\/p>\n<p>Join us for all the build-up and action as it happens from Italy\u2019s friendly match against Greece.<\/p>\n<p>It kicks off at 21:00 CET (20:00 BST) at the Pankritio Stadium in Heraklion.<\/p>\n<p>The Azzurri, led by caretaker coach Silvio Baldini, already beat Luxembourg 1-0 on Wednesday night with a goal from Inter talent<a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/luxembourg-0-1-italy-pio-esposito-night-debuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Francesco Pio Esposito.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy have failed to qualify for the World Cup, so this match effectively ends the 2025-26 campaign in the Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The Serie A season will resume on the weekend of August 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s next game will be against Belgium on September 25 in the 2025-26 Nations League Group A opener.<\/p>\n<p>Italy are expected to have a new coach by then, given that the Football Federation (FIGC) will vote for a new President on June 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>After that date, the FIGC will hire a new coach replacing Baldini, and ex-Napoli boss Antonio Conte is among the favourites for the job.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Azzurri have one more game remaining, ending another sad season for Italian football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page will update live with the latest relevant news, no need to refresh the page! Join us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-721882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}