{"id":4109,"date":"2018-01-13T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2018-01-13T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:59:43","slug":"dream-win-world-cup-coach-says-roberto-mancini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/dream-win-world-cup-coach-says-roberto-mancini\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dream is to Win the World Cup As Coach, Says Roberto Mancini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester City and Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini said that he would like to coach Italy’s national team. Describing the possibility as an honour.<\/h2>\n

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The job has been vacant since Gian Piero Ventura was sacked in November following Italy’s failure to qualify for the World Cup. Carlo Ancelotti, another potential candidate, has already said he is not interested at the moment.<\/p>\n

Mancini, a gifted forward in his playing days, won a surprisingly modest 36 caps for Italy. And\u00a0 he never played at a World Cup, although was an unused member of the 1990 squad.<\/p>\n

“I have a dream, which is to win as a coach something I never won as a player: the World Cup,” the 53-year-old told Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n

“I have worked at big clubs and won. It’s beautiful to coach the national team. It would be an honour, a source of pride — and winning the European championship or World Cup even more so.”<\/p>\n

Mancini, coach of Russian side Zenit St Petersburg, said that the long periods without seeing his players — something many national team coaches complain about — would not be a problem.<\/p>\n

“I’ve worked on the pitch as a player and coach every day for 40 years,” he said. “I’m still young – I can go back to club football after the national team.”<\/p>\n

Carlo Ancelotti, Fabio Capello and former Italy boss Antonio Conte have also been linked with the role.<\/p>\n

After 20 games and with the competition currently on a mid-season break, Zenit are eight points shy of Lokomotiv Moscow at the top of the Russian Premier League.<\/p>\n

Mancini\u2019s men will face Scottish champions Celtic in the Europa League round of 32 next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester City and Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini said that he would like to coach Italy’s national team. Describing the possibility as an honour. The job has been vacant since Gian Piero Ventura was sacked in November following Italy’s failure to qualify for the World Cup. Carlo Ancelotti, another potential candidate, has already said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1345],"tags":[6018,6016,6017],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-football-news","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-mancini","tag-national-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}