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Napoli’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, has said he would not guidelines successful Antonio Conte’s measurement if nan coach asked to return nan vacant Italy job, aft Conte said he ought to beryllium nether information to win Gennaro Gattuso.
Gattuso resigned arsenic nan Azzurri’s coach connected Friday aft Italy grounded to scope nan World Cup for a 3rd consecutive time. Conte’s woody astatine Napoli runs until 2027 and nan Italian champions are 7 points disconnected nan Serie A leaders, Inter, pinch 7 matches remaining.
“It’s expected that my sanction appears connected nan database of candidates for nan nationalist team,” Conte said aft Monday’s 1-0 convention triumph complete Milan. “If I was nan federation’s president, I would see my name. But, you cognize my contractual situation, I’ll meet pinch my president astatine nan extremity of nan play and we will see.”
Conte was successful complaint of nan four-time World Cup winners betwixt 2014 and 2016, starring nan squad astatine Euro 2016, wherever they were eliminated connected penalties by Germany successful nan quarter-finals.
He coached Napoli to past season’s Scudetto, but was adjacent to leaving past summertime aft a fallout pinch De Laurentiis.
Gattuso near 24 hours aft Gabriele Gravina resigned arsenic nan caput of nan Italian shot federation. “If Conte asked maine to let him to go nan nationalist squad coach again, I would opportunity yes,” De Laurentiis told nan website Calcionapoli24. “But arsenic he’s very intelligent, arsenic agelong arsenic there’s nary [federation] president, and up to now location hasn’t been, I don’t deliberation he sees himself successful complaint of thing truthful disorganised.”
Milan’s coach, Massimiliano Allegri, has besides been linked pinch nan Italy position, but Gattuso’s replacement will not beryllium named until aft nan federation’s bonzer gathering connected 22 June to elite a caller president.
