Gattuso on pole for the role of CT of Italy, but the FIGC has a plan that sees Buffon in the center. Here is the identikit of the new national team coach
A project before even the name of a technician. That could be Rino Gattuso, now the favorite but not the only race for the bench of Italy, or another of the 2006 boys. Not alone, however, if anything, inserted in a working group that faces the national emergency to bring the blues to the World Cup next summer avoiding the third failure to qualify: a blow that would be almost fatal for the whole movement.
After the shock of the step back of Claudio Ranieri, poorly digested behavior for the mode and which has created further difficulties at the top of Italian football, the FIGC has chosen a different strategy in the path that must lead to the appointment of the new coach.
Meanwhile, the form, which in this case is also substance: President Gabriele Gravina is not on the pitch directly at this stage, destined to last a few days. Gigi Buffon is at the forefront. He is the one who makes contact with the selected figures (Gattuso the first) and to exhibit the federal plan. A working group that will have a selector, but in which the roles of Buffon himself and maybe another figure (Bonucci?) Will be fundamental.
The FIGC is looking for a technician who has precise features: not a player who needs time to build the team, but someone who in September in a few workouts rekindle the group. And that he has charisma to spend for his past, welding to the work of Buffon himself. As Gravina has repeatedly said, there is no more time to waste in exotic or alternative paths: you have to go straight to the point.
The idea, therefore, is to create a control room for the emergency. Buffon does not speak of contracts (Gravina will then take care of it later) and it is likely that Gattuso does not stop alone: on the table there are also the names of Daniele De Rossi and Fabio Cannavaro.
And the others? Having said that numerous applications have been received by the FIGC, every alternative hypothesis at the moment must be imagined as a suggestion. In via Allegri many “presented” themselves: Mourinho, Benitez, Xavi and also Roberto Mancini who is launching messages of repentance to try to understand if there are messengers of mending with Gravina after the escape of August 2023 On the contrary.
Certainly at the moment the plan is another and only if the project of the control room failed, the one in the hands of Buffon, the FIGC would look around to study a new strategy. A scenario that the federals hope to avoid.
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