Conte to resign as Italy coach after Euro 2016
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WITHOUT mentioning Chelsea or any other team, Antonio Conte has decided to step down as Italy coach after this year’s European Championship.
The former Juventus player and coach, who took over Italy’s national team after the 2014 World Cup, has been linked with a move to the Premier League.
Italian football federation president Carlo Tavecchio said yesterday that Conte misses the day-to-day life of club soccer.
“Antonio Conte has told me that at the end of the European Championship, his experience will end,” Tavecchio said on his way into a federal board meeting in Rome. “He feels the calling of the pitch, the daily training sessions, and that’s understandable.”
Conte became Italy coach after Cesare Prandelli resigned following a first-round exit at the World Cup in Brazil. He steered Italy to first place in its qualifying group for the European Championship, earning a spot in the finals with a game to spare.
“At the moment our maximum concentration only goes to Euro 2016 during which we will try with work and sacrifice to make the best of our potential,” Conte said on his official Facebook page.
“After that I feel that I must go back to being a coach in a club to have the opportunity of coaching every day.”
Off the field, Conte is heading to trial in Italy along with 103 others on match-fixing charges in a wide-ranging scandal known as Calcioscommesse.
Former Italy coaches Roberto Donadoni and Prandelli have both been named as possible replacements for Conte along with Claudio Ranieri, manager of surprise Premier League leader Leicester City.
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink, who took over after Jose Mourinho was fired in December after the club made its worst start to a top-flight season since 1978, will step down at the end of the campaign.
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