🚨 Official: Italy, Gattuso leaves too! An honour, thanks to the fans | OneFootball

After the resignations of Gabriele Gravina as FIGC president and of Gianluigi Buffon, today also comes that of head coach Gennaro Gattuso.

This is the statement from the Italian Football Federation.

The contract linking the coach to the Italy bench has been terminated by mutual consent. Gravina: “In just a few months, he managed to restore enthusiasm around the national team, instilling in the players and the whole country a great pride in the Azzurri shirt”

The Italian Football Federation and Gennaro Ivan Gattuso have mutually agreed to terminate the contract that tied the Calabrian coach to the bench of the Italian national football team. The FIGC thanks Gattuso and all his staff for the seriousness, dedication, and passion with which they worked over the last nine months and wishes them the very best success in the continuation of their careers.

Also included in the statement were Gattuso’s words:

“With pain in my heart, having failed to achieve the goal we had set ourselves, I consider my experience on the national team bench to be over. The Azzurri shirt is the most precious thing in football, and for this reason it is right to immediately facilitate future technical evaluations. I would like to thank president Gabriele Gravina and Gianluigi Buffon, and with them all the Federation’s staff, for the trust and support they have always guaranteed me. It has been an honor to lead the national team and to do so with a group of lads who showed commitment and attachment to the shirt. But my biggest thanks go to the fans, to all Italians who in these months have never failed to show their love and support for the national team. Always with blue in my heart”.

Lastly, Gravina’s comment:

“I would like once again to thank Gattuso,” says the former president, “because, in addition to being a special person, as a coach he made a valuable contribution, managing in just a few months to restore enthusiasm around the national team. He instilled in the players and the whole country a great pride in the Azzurri shirt”.

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