🚨 Coaching shake-up in Italy! Media: Disgraced coach takes top job | OneFootball

"If I fail, I’ll have to leave Italy and move abroad," Gennaro Gattuso joked in October of last year.

At the time, the former hard-tackling midfielder was working as Italy’s national team coach and quite literally had just one job: finally lead the long-suffering Squadra Azzurra back to a World Cup after the humiliations of 2018 and 2022!

But Gattuso failed in dramatic fashion against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the playoffs and became the face of Italy missing out on the World Cup for the third straight time. 

The 2006 world champion will not be leaving Italy, however. Quite the opposite: to the surprise of almost all observers, Gattuso has apparently landed an absolute top job in Serie A.

As Fabrizio Romano and several sources in Italy are reporting, the 48-year-old is set to take over as head coach of Lazio. The Romans finished the season that has just ended in a thoroughly disappointing ninth place and will in all likelihood move forward without coach Maurizio Sarri.

The main reason is said to be disagreements over transfer planning. According to media reports, Sarri is already on the verge of a move to Atalanta.

Gattuso now looks set to succeed him at Lazio. But has the former world-class defensive midfielder recovered from his humiliation with the Italian national team?

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