Official Gennaro Gattuso new coach of'Italy
Gennaro Gattuso is Italy’s new technical commissioner. This was announced by the FIGC. The coach from Calabria will be presented on Thursday, June 19, at 11 a.m. at the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome.
Gattuso is a symbol of Italian soccer, the ‘azzurro for him is like a second skin”: thus, the no.1of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina formalizing the appointment of Gennaro Gattuso as the new coach of Italy.
“His motivation, professionalism and experience will be crucial to face the upcoming commitments of the national team – stressed the president of the Italian Football Federation, formalizing the appointment of the technical commissioner.”
“Aware of the’importance of the goal we want to achieve, I thank him for the willingness and total dedication with which he has accepted this challenge, sharing the FIGC project of overall development of our soccer, in which the blue jersey has a strategic centrality”.
As a coach, Gattuso has been on the benches of Sion, Palermo, Ofi Crete, Pisa, Milan (from November 2017 to 2019), Napoli (from December 2019 to 2021), Valencia, Marseille and finally, last season, Hajduk Split.
