The appointment of Roberto Mancini as head of the Nazionale is not unanimous in Italy. If the FIGC has officially turned the page on the crisis caused by the failure of the Andrea Pirlo track, several Serie A clubs have difficulty digesting the method used by Giovanni Malagò. According to the Italian press, the leaders of the elite considered that Antonio Conte represented the best choice to relaunch the selection and above all criticize the President of the Federation for having completely excluded them from the decision-making process. During the Federal Council, the president of the Lega Serie A, Ezio Simonelli, expressed this deep dissatisfaction, quickly relayed by several influential leaders such as Giuseppe Marotta, Giorgio Chiellini and Stefano Campoccia.
For the moment, no official revolt has been launched, but the tensions are very real. If Serie A finally published a statement of support for Roberto Mancini and Claudio Ranieri in order to display a united front, the divide with Giovanni Malagò is now visible. The clubs regret not having been consulted on a choice that they consider strategic for the future of Italian football, even though they had largely supported the election of the new president of the FIGC a few months earlier. Behind the scenes, some are already no longer ruling out challenging the governance of Malagò in the medium term if this breakdown in trust were to worsen, even if no initiative in this direction is currently on the agenda.
