Charles Jackson
The Serie A coaching change that has been talked about for months is finally official. Antonio Conte is Napoli’s new coach. The Italian coach will return to Italy to coach a Serie A team following his Premier League experience with Tottenham Hotspur and has signed a three-year contract until the summer of 2027 with Aurelio De Laurentiis’ club. After a disappointing season, Napoli will begin a new chapter under Conte, who returns to the Italian Serie A three years after his departure.
In the official statement, Napoli owner De Lurentiis said: “I am very proud that Napoli’s new coach is Antonio Conte. Antonio is a top coach, a leader, with whom I am sure the necessary refoundation can begin after the completion of the cycle that led us to win the Scudetto last year, after many seasons at the top of Italian football.”
Conte praised his new club in a statement.
“Napoli is a place of global importance. I am happy and excited about the idea of sitting on the Azzurri bench. I can certainly promise one thing: I will do my best for the growth of the team and the club. My commitment, together with the from my team, it will be total.”
After starting his coaching career at Arezzo, Siena and Bari, Juventus appointed Conte in the summer of 2011, where he brought the club back to winning the Scudetto for the first time since the Calciopoli scandal in 2006. In the summer of 2014, Conte stepped down. the role and became coach of the Italian national team, leading the Azzurri to the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 2016.
The same summer, the Italian manager joined Chelsea, where he won the Premier League title in his first year in charge, but was sacked at the end of his second season despite winning the FA Cup thanks to a difficult relationship with the club’s owner. club, Roman Abrahmovic. In 2019, he returned to Italian football after Inter decided to sign him, and won the Scudetto in his second season, but later resigned from his duties again as the club was forced to sell two key players from their squad, Romelu Lukaku. and Achraf Hakimi due to financial problems. Former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici convinced Conte to join Tottenham in November 2021 and, after a strong start to his Spurs experience, leading Spurs to the top four and qualifying for the Champions League, the two Teams disbanded in March 2023.
Conte is now set to return and De Laurentiis has decided to appoint him and his backroom team to bring the club back to glory after Napoli failed to qualify for European competition and finished tenth in the Italian league just a year after win a historic Scudetto. Napoli, after parting ways with Luciano Spalletti in the summer of 2023, appointed three coaches last season (Rudi Garcia, Walter Mazzarri and Francesco Calzona), but none of them managed to rediscover the magic the club had the season before. Will Conte be able to do this?
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