He led Italy to the 2021 European Championship title, in the summer of 2023 Mancini resigned, and then signed as national team coach for Saudi Arabia a few days later. Many reacted with “what the hell?!”. A year and a half later, Roberto Mancini himself agrees that this was a move that must be put on the blunder account.
Mancini was surprisingly sacked in October after 18 games, now the Italian explains why he regrets giving up his Italian national team coaching job to go to Saudi Arabia.
“For technical reasons, for football reasons and because being the coach of the Italian national team is the best job there is. No, I wouldn’t do the same thing again,” Mancini emphasizes to TG1.
