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Jul 09, 2021

Southgate and Mancini set the example other countries should follow | Philipp Lahm

England and Italy managers have moulded a style and attitude that resonates with the players and their own publicAs the 2024 European Championship will take place in Germany I am naturally interested in the appearance and impact of the home teams at the current tournament. It is important for the atmosphere and reach of a tournament that a home team plays with courage and spreads optimism. It is important that it has characters within the squad with whom fans can identify. That the players are aware that they are playing at home and that the crowd can feel it. Related: England beat Denmark in extra time to set up Euro 2020 final with Italy Related: Italy into Euro 2020 final...

Feb 17, 2017

Italy still producing prize managerial exports from its winning system | Richard Williams

Coverciano outside Florence has been the nerve centre of the Italian game for almost 60 years and the reverence in which it is held by many seems to have had a positive effect on plenty of its graduatesAs long as he doesn’t blow it, and nothing in his record suggests that he will, sometime within the next three months Antonio Conte will become the fourth Italian manager to lead a team to the Premier League title. Remarkably, that quartet – in which he would join Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Mancini and Claudio Ranieri – will have claimed the English championship in four of the past eight seasons.No English-born manager, of course, has won the title since Howard Wilkinson in 1991-92, the...