Italy need a new manager and Jose Mourinho is the right head coach for the job ahead of the 2026 World Cup

The Italian national team is again confronted with a revolution because the Italian Federation (Figc) has decided to dismiss coach Luciano Spalletti, the same manager announced on Sunday prior to the Moldavia match that the Azzurri won 2-0, after losing 3-0, their first match against Norway. After a disappointing campaign of 2024 euros when Italy was eliminated by Switzerland in the round of 16 and the last two world cups in 2018 and 2022, Italy is now running the risk of missing their third world cup in a row. After Spalletti had left the national team, Italy wanted to designate Claudio Ranieri as their new head coach, but it was the AS Roma Club Advisor decided to reject the Italian national team in the following year, and now the Italian FA wants to name a new manager. According to Sky Italy, the strongest candidates 2006 World Cup winners Gennaro Gattuso, Daniele de Rossi and Fabio Cannavaro, but Jose Mourinho has also emerged as a candidate Matteo Moretto And this is why he is the best option.

The Italian federation is looking for a young manager, someone who can also continue, the project started with Luciano Spalletti in 2023, a totally different profile than that of Ranieri who was assumed to be a short -term option until the World Cup 2026 in the United States, Mexico and Canada. However, Italy has no time to lose because they have already lost the opening -crucial match against Norway. The new manager lacks opportunities to experiment, so that an experienced manager such as Ranieri or Carlo Ancelotti (who just came to Brazil after leaving the Real Madrid) type ideal.

With those two not available, Mourinho would be a very solid candidate, given his experience and also his way of coaching for the short term. Even if it looks unlikely that he will take the job now, he could have been really exciting to coach him the Italian national team, and it is not as if he has no experience in Italy, he did very well with both Inter and Roma.

One day Mourinho will coach a national team, as he said several times, and Portugal tried to name him in January 2023 after the World Cup of Qatar, but at that time the Portuguese manager who refused that opportunity because he was still a contraction with Roma and chose to stay in the club.

Mourinho Coaching from the Italian national team would also have been great for what it means prior to the 2026 World Cup, where managers such as Ancelotti, Mauricio Pochettino, Thomas Tuchel, Julian Nagelsmann will be among other things of the long -awaited tournament.

Italy will probably hire GattusoFrom whom is expected to join the Azzurri before the World Cup 2026, hoping to be at least eligible and avoid what another humiliation would be for the historic national team. The last time the Azzurri played a knockout game of the World Cup was the 2006 final against France on the penalties, when the same Gattuso was part of the starting eleven. Time will learn whether hiring a former legend of that national team was the best idea, knowing that there is absolutely no room for an error in the next ten months.