Former Italy coach Roberto Mancini (ANDREAS SOLARO)
Former Italy coach Roberto Mancini will take part within the effort to rescue Sampdoria, who’re languishing 18th in Italian Serie B, membership president Matteo Manfredi mentioned on Tuesday.
Mancini spent most of his enjoying profession on the membership. On Monday, two of Mancini’s shut associates, Alberico Evani and Attilio Lombardo, who have been a part of the teaching workers when Italy gained the European Championship in 2021, have been appointed as Sampdoria’s coach and assistant coach.
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“Roberto is by our facet and will definitely assist us get again on observe. His function is not formal; associates should not at all times be current, however his presence will definitely be fixed and might be felt,” Manfredi informed Sky Sport.
Relegated to Serie B in 2023, the Genoa-based membership haven’t gained a sport since February 8. With six matches left, they’re three factors behind Cittadella in fifteenth, the primary non-relegation place.
The membership have had 4 coaches since final August.
Sampdoria’s all-time prime scorer, Mancini, 60, has been a free agent since leaving his submit as Saudi Arabia coach final October after simply over a 12 months.
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He was a part of the Sampdoria workforce that gained the now-defunct Cup Winners’ Cup (C2) in 1990 and the Italian title in 1991, the one Scudetto within the membership’s historical past, and reached the European Cup last the next season.
Alongside together with his shut good friend Gianluca Vialli, who died abruptly in 2023, he shaped one of the crucial prolific scoring duos in Serie A.
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