Gennaro Gattuso new coach of Italy, is now official. Here’s how the FIGC chose the CT after Spalletti. Collaborators, role of Buffon and the goal of going to the 2026 World Cup
Gattuso Technical Commissioner of the National team: it is now official. The president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravinadid not need to disclose the weekend to put the beginning of the new era on the blue bench black and white, The one who will necessarily have to take us to the 2026 World Cupso as to avoid a fatal shock to the whole system.
After days of interviews, first with Buffon And then with the same Gravine, Gattuso has officially become the CT of Italy. He will be the terminal of a wider project and of national emergencyborn after the collapse in Norway e The exemption of Luciano Spalletti. “Gattuso is a symbol of Italian football -said the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina -, the blue for him is like a second skin. His reasons, his professionalism and his experience will be fundamental to better face the next national commitments. Aware of the importance of the goal we want to achieve, I thank him for the availability and total dedication with which he accepted this challenge, sharing the project of the FIGC of our football, in which the blue shirt covers a strategic centrality “.
With him there will be the historic deputy, Gigi Ricciobut the control room that must revive the blue destinies does not only stop at the new technician and his collaborators. The staff also enter Andrea Barzagli And Leonardo Bonucciother men who have tied their career to large national teams. And a role will also play Cesare Prandellicalled to impersonate the figure of technical directorthe architect who finds youth talent and harmonizes it with the needs of the major national team, so as to accelerate its growth path.
The Gattuso contract is linked as timing to the 2026 World Cup. Not a lack of perspective or trust, but the simple awareness that to center or not that goal will be a watershed for the future of Italian football at all levels. Not only the technical and competitive one.
The path that led to the choice of the former Milan midfielder, World champion in 2006 and long one of the blue columns, also certifies the Centrality of Buffon in the new course of the national team. It was he, on the mandate of President Gravina, who made the selection, speak with Gattuso and direct the decision. He will have more and more weight in Coverciano. The hope of the FIGC is that the comparison with ex -champion, who have gone beyond their limits for the blue, can help create a different climate: Less defections, pain or light approach.
Gattuso also fully corresponds to the identikit of the ideal selector After the trauma of the rethinking of Ranieri: not a player, but someone who can immediately affect the head and motivations (will have a couple of training before the next challenges), with a football proposal immediately understandable by the group.
The goal is to win the matches that remain To put pressure on the Norway or, in the worst hypothesis, arm on second place and better prepare the March playoff.
