Live: Giampiero Ventura has been sacked
Follow our Live coverage of the FIGC summit here, as CM’s correspondents bring you the latest from the Giampiero Ventura fiasco.
The Italian Football Federation is currently holding a key summit at its HQ in Roma’s Via Allegri [how ironic!], one which is expected to result in the sacking of Coach Giampero Ventura.
The former Torino, Pisa and Bari gaffer failed to qualify the Azzurri to the 2018 World Cup, and was criticised for tactical rigidity, poor squad selection and failing to score against Sweden over 180 minutes.
With reports that the players were running the team, and that Ventura threatened to resign before Monday’s return leg at the San Siro, Ventura doesn’t have the stature or authority to keep his job.
18:25 Giampiero Ventura has been sacked. Sources inside the FIGC have confirmed to several outlets that the former Torino and Bari coach has been sacked. No official announcement has been made but it is expected that this will come over the next few minutes.
18:00 The president of the Footballers’ Association, Damiano Tommasi, has just stormed out of the FIGC summit which is set to make a decision on Giampiero Ventura’s future.
The Italian Football Federation is currently holding a key summit at its HQ in Roma’s Via Allegri [how ironic!], one which is expected to result in the sacking of Coach Giampero Ventura.
The former Torino, Pisa and Bari gaffer failed to qualify the Azzurri to the 2018 World Cup, and was criticised for tactical rigidity, poor squad selection and failing to score against Sweden over 180 minutes.
With reports that the players were running the team, and that Ventura threatened to resign before Monday’s return leg at the San Siro, Ventura doesn’t have the stature or authority to keep his job.
18:25 Giampiero Ventura has been sacked. Sources inside the FIGC have confirmed to several outlets that the former Torino and Bari coach has been sacked. No official announcement has been made but it is expected that this will come over the next few minutes.
18:00 The president of the Footballers’ Association, Damiano Tommasi, has just stormed out of the FIGC summit which is set to make a decision on Giampiero Ventura’s future.
As reported by Tancredi Palmeri, the former Roma player stormed out of the meeting when it became apparent that Federation president Giorgio Tavecchio’s tenure was not up for a vote.
“A resignation would be expected in a normal country,” Palmeri reports Tommasi as saying.
“The problem is if we [implying Tavecchio] were to remain in charge of the Federal Council.
“Even the best projects in the world are difficult [if you keep] the same people.
“We should go for new elections, too much time has passed.”
16.15 Lega Pro president Gabriele Gravina wants Ventura out.
“Ventura should be sacked without thinking twice about it. Tavecchio’s eventual resignation? It’s a subjective issue. I don’t think a vote will be proposed on his tenure, I’d rather that we talked about planning the future of Italian football”.