Italy’s interim supervisor Silvio Baldini believes serial champion Antonio Conte will likely be profitable if he decides to return to handle the Azzurri.
Baldini took cost of the Italian nationwide staff on an interim foundation, successful the primary sport in opposition to Luxembourg 1-0, giving 15 gamers their worldwide debut on the Stade de Luxembourg.
The Azzurri are in search of a everlasting head coach after coach Gennaro Gattuso resigned after Italy missed out on a 3rd consecutive World Cup.
Conte has been linked with the emptiness after he leaves Napoli on the finish of the 2025-26 season, only one yr after main them to the Serie A title in his first season in cost.
The 56-year-old was accountable for the Italian nationwide staff from 2014 to 2016, successful 14 of the 25 video games he coached (D7 L4), for a median win proportion of 56%.
Nevertheless, Baldini pointed to Conte’s success at membership stage as one thing Italy ought to contemplate, on condition that he has gained 11 main titles in his managerial profession.
“Relating to managers, Conte is the one who nearly at all times wins and at all times finishes first or second,” Baldini stated.
“However why does Conte at all times win? He has his personal type, some are good, some are disagreeable, he creates a robust group, however I am solely speaking about outcomes.
“He went to England and gained it. He gained it with three groups in Italy: Juventus, Inter and Napoli. Every time he did not win, he got here second.
“However why is Mr. Conte profitable? It is as a result of he has a strategy.
“If our youth groups don’t perceive that having a strategy is extra like a life-style than simply instructing approach or the way to cross the ball, we gained’t get wherever.”
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Nevertheless, Napoli completed the 2025-26 league season with 76 factors, marking the primary time that Conte’s facet failed to select up 80 factors in a single Serie A season.
Contemplating Europe’s high 5 leagues, Conte has solely gained fewer factors in a season thus far at Chelsea in 2017-18 (70 factors) and Tottenham in 2021-22 (71 factors).
Nevertheless, Conte’s Serie A win charge of 62% with Napoli is the third highest amongst Partenopei managers, behind Maurizio Sarri (69%) and Luciano Spalletti (68%).
