A bolt from the blue. When Giovanni Malagò announced Roberto Mancini as Italy head coach and Claudio Ranieri as the national team's technical director, plenty of people voiced discontent and disapproval. The decision to hand the national team, at one of the toughest moments in Italian football, to a head coach who walked away three years ago to take the Saudi Arabia job and a three-year contract worth €25 million a year came under fire.
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