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France, Italy turn to native soccer coaches
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France and Italy named their new men’s national soccer team managers — a Frenchman and an Italian, leaving them among the few countries that have very rarely employed foreign coaches.
Zinedine Zidane and Roberto Mancini have different briefs: France are recent winners, while Italy last reached a World Cup in 2014.
But they are both natives, a rare thing.
In the 2022 World Cup, just nine countries had foreign coaches; this year, 27.
Italy tried to follow suit by approaching Spanish superstar Pep Guardiola, but was rebuffed.