{"id":918285,"date":"2026-10-06T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:50:11","slug":"nicolo-tresoldi-opens-up-on-turning-down-jurgen-klopp-as-22-year-old-remains-torn-between-germany-and-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918285\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolo Tresoldi opens up on turning down Jurgen Klopp as 22-year-old remains torn between Germany and Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klopp is not the only heavyweight involved in the pursuit, with Germany sporting director Rudi Voller and Italy head coach Mancini actively lobbying the young forward.<\/p>\n<p>On his constructive dialogue with Voller, Tresoldi noted: &#8220;We&#8217;ve spoken several times. He understands my situation very well because he played in Italy for a long time himself and knows both countries. He knows that this decision isn&#8217;t easy. For me, it&#8217;s something special to be able to speak to someone like him. When strikers of that calibre talk to you, it means something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/italy-tresoldi-says-yes-to-mancini-waiting-for-fifa-s-approval-for-the-change-of-national-team-here-is-the-head-coach-s-objective\/bltfce363a929b171ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Mancini&#8217;s personal pitch<\/a>, he added: &#8220;Yes, he contacted me too. It was a similar situation. For me, it&#8217;s something special when two such successful coaches take the time to speak to me. It shows me that I&#8217;m on the right track. I&#8217;m very grateful to both of them for that. Everything else will become clear in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klopp is not the only heavyweight involved in the pursuit, with Germany sporting director Rudi Voller and Italy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,486367,486369,596,486366,5717,486365,486370,2328,195152,486368,85],"class_list":["post-918285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cercle-brugge","tag-euro-u21-qualification","tag-football","tag-georgia-u21","tag-germany","tag-germany-u21","tag-germany-u21-vs-georgia-u21","tag-italy","tag-j-klopp","tag-n-tresoldi","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918285","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=918285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}