ROME, 1st July, 2024 (WAM) -- Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) President Gabriele Gravina has said coach Luciano Spalletti will remain in charge of the national football team after Italy's defence of their European title ended with Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in the last 16 of Euro 2024.
"There was a long chat with the coach: it is unthinkable to resolve the issues by abandoning a project that from the start we defined as a multi-year one," Italian news agency ANSA quoted Gravina as saying at a press conference.
“Something needs to change, something needs to be reviewed in terms of our approach: there will be some deep reflection, but we have started to analyse things together with Luciano Spalletti. We all have to develop and we only have one way to do it: when you fall, and it happens quite often, you have to get back up with the strength of the project, the strength of ideas and with work.”
He apologised for not having been able to give back to all the Italian fans the joy that they deserved. "We are sorry for the result, but the result in sport is subject to many variables, which also include the possibility of defeat".