Massimiliano Allegri: Touted by many to be the fans choice for the vacant role, Allegri has achieved considerable success in Italian football.<\/p>\n
The AC Milan boss only returned for his second spell at the San Siro in May, so could take some convincing to give that up for the national team job.<\/p>\n
After numerous roles in Italy’s lower leagues, Allegri was appointed Milan boss in 2010, winning Serie A in his first full season.<\/p>\n
He then enjoyed two spells as Juventus boss, winning five more Serie A titles, before returning to Milan last year.<\/p>\n
Roberto Mancini: Could this be a chance for the return of the 61-year-old former manager?<\/p>\n
Mancini led Italy to Euro 2020 glory, beating England in the final, and oversaw a record-breaking 37-match unbeaten run.<\/p>\n
He resigned in August 2023, though, after failing to qualify for the 2022 World Cup and subsequently had a short spell in charge of the Saudi Arabia national team.<\/p>\n
Now in charge of Qatari side Al-Sadd, Mancini led Manchester City to their first Premier League title and has also had success with Lazio and Inter Milan.<\/p>\n
Antonio Conte: The Italian is contracted to Napoli until 2027, but is another former national boss being linked with a return.<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old took Italy to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals before quitting because he wanted to return to club football.<\/p>\n
He has enjoyed immense success at club level, winning three straight Serie A titles with Juventus, a Premier League and FA Cup with Chelsea and two more league crowns with Inter Milan and Napoli.<\/p>\n
Fabio Cannavaro: Perhaps a wild card but what better way to attempt to restore a feel-good factor to Italian football than appoint a national legend.<\/p>\n
He will lead Uzbekistan into their first World Cup in the summer but could he be tempted by a return after the summer?<\/p>\n
Captain of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning team, the former defender does not have a scintillating managerial pedigree.<\/p>\n
Stefano Pioli: The former AC Milan and Fiorentina boss is currently out of work and would surely jump at a chance to manage the national team.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old has also managed Lazio and Inter Milan, but only has one Serie A title to his name – with AC Milan in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massimiliano Allegri: Touted by many to be the fans choice for the vacant role, Allegri has achieved considerable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-579744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}