News about Roberto Mancini

Over the last eight years, Atalanta's remarkable rise from yo-yo club to Champions League regulars has come despite a reputation for being slow starters.

SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON: My first job after England was with Manchester City . It turned out to be for just one season, even though we won both of the derby matches against United. It's an English tradition after a home match to invite the opponents' coach and staff to your office for a cup of tea or a gin and tonic.

Legendary former player Salvatore 'Toto' Schillaci has died at the age of 59. The Italian icon, who lit up the nation's home World Cup in 1990, played for Juventus and Inter in a glittering career spanning 384 matches, scoring 159 goals. Back in 2020, Mail Sport spoke with Schillaci about briefly becoming one of the most famous people in sport, finishing second in the Ballon d'Or runnings and his surprise affection for Arsenal.

The hearing into Manchester City's 115 charges of alleged financial misconduct will start today. It is alleged that City breached financial rules between 2009 and 2018. City, who strongly deny all charges, say that their case is supported by a 'comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence'. The Premier League charged City with a failure to provide accurate financial information and a failure to provide accurate details for player and manager payments.

In an anonymous conference room at an undisclosed location, the most significant legal case football has ever known is about to get under way, with Manchester City 's credibility as the outstanding side of this era at stake. The process will be shrouded in unprecedented secrecy. It took a courtroom challenge from Mail Sport simply to allow us to report that the Premier League had taken a legal route to force City to give them evidence, as part of their investigation. Our barrister, Jude Bunting KC, won that argument, after going up against Lord Pannick KC, who will lead City's defence team when the case begins on Monday. But behind closed doors, for an expected 10 weeks, City will strenuously deny charges that they swerved financial fair play rules to spend more than they were entitled to on players who helped turn them into the Premier League's dominant force.

Welcome to Teamsheet... Mail Sport's original football memory game with a twist that gives you the chance to have the bragging rights over your pals. Chelsea won the Premier League in 2009-10 after a stunning season, but today we're bringing you back to a more difficult day from that campaign when an up-and-coming Man City shocked the Blues 4-2 at Stamford Bridge under new boss Roberto Mancini. It's just for fun, so see how you fare and share your Teamsheet score... full instructions on how to play are at the bottom of the article and in the game itself.

Federico Chiesa stood with his arms aloft on the Wembley pitch, taking the scene in. The forward had just dazzled to lead Italy to glory in the Euro 2020 final, with Roberto Mancini's side edging out England on penalties following Gianluigi Donnarumma's heroics. Chiesa had the world at his feet after several stunning displays throughout the tournament, with the then-23-year-old a season into a two-year loan at Juventus - a move that would be made permanent the following summer for a fee rising to €50m (£42.2m). Chiesa was named in the Euro 2020 team of the tournament such were his exploits and those back in Turin couldn't be happier with the business they had done 12 months earlier in prizing him away from Fiorentina.

Fans have been left stunned after an old family portrait of a Premier League great was circulated on social media. One of the most celebrated talents ever to grace the top flight, the midfielder also enjoyed a decorated career at international level. As part of Spain's all-conquering side that won two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup the player went on to win a host of awards in a glittering career.

Rui Pinto (top left), who gained access to thousands of City emails and leaked a large number to the media in 2018, has alleged he has provided authorities in Germany and France with 'millions' of damning documents that he claims will show 'criminal relevancy'. The 35-year-old has been in a witness protection programme since 2020. He was handed a four-year suspended sentence by a court in Portugal last year but avoided prison despite being found guilty of attempted extortion and illegal access to data. Pinto is believed to have kept hold of the majority of the documents relating to City's financial activities but previously leaked bombshell details on the club's sponsorship income and specifics on former manager Roberto Mancini's contract. City vehemently deny any wrongdoing but are expected to face a hearing into their 115 Premier League charges for alleged financial irregularities this autumn.

Steven Pendergast and his wife Charlotte, enjoy flaunting the luxury lifestyle of holidays and VIP events funded by their success in finding supply teachers for overstretched schools struggling to recruit staff. Mr Pendergast's firm, Connex Education Partnership, is only one of many companies making millions out of the classroom crisis. The company describes itself on its website as 'proud of our reputation' for 'providing schools, specialist units and early years settings with whole-school recruitment and training solutions'.

More than 220 clubs are represented at Euro 2024 - and Manchester City and Inter Milan top the charts in terms of call-ups. Thirteen players from both clubs made their nation's final squads for the tournament, which kicked off last night in Germany. Premier League champions Manchester City's players come from seven different nations. Serie A winners Inter Milan's representatives include former Stoke City striker Marko Arnautovic who will be leading the line for Austria. Holders Italy have included four players from their domestic champions in their squad, including Nicolo Barella and Alessandro Bastoni who won Euro 2020 under former manager Roberto Mancini.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DORTMUND: From the nation that brought us catenaccio, there has been a whiff of defensiveness about the Italians this week as they ponder their peculiar status at Euro 2024. When they launch their campaign against Albania in Dortmund on Saturday night, it will be from the somewhat jarring position of being defending champions of whom far less is expected than normal. If they are to find familiar comforts in this tournament, it will be as dark horses. That has certainly been the consensus view aimed at a young group featuring only nine survivors from the triumphant class of 2021 and which bears little resemblance to the squad that beat England in the final at Wembley.

TOM COLLOMOSSE: Luciano Spalletti has banned his players from wearing headphones and imposed strict limits on gaming as he tries to help Italy remain European champions. The Azzurri boss is a stickler for discipline and has wasted no time in letting his squad know they are in Germany for work - even frowning on too much laughing and joking during training sessions ahead of their tournament opener against Albania on Saturday. Spalletti's men are not favoured to retain the trophy they won three years ago, after a troubled qualifying campaign. Roberto Mancini was replaced by Spalletti midway through it, after he quit to sign a huge contract as Saudi Arabia boss.

Euro 2024 is just around the corner, and while the cream of Europe's top stars head into the tournament looking to make their mark, but here's plenty that already have among the coaching staff in their playing careers.  The finals can boast World Cup winners, iconic European names and cult heroes among the managerial faces who will be leading their teams in Germany.  However, there are some with only very minor playing experience and have found coaching their calling card onto the big stage.

Euro 2020 was a tournament unlike any witnessed before it. Once the action had finally commenced fans were treated to a spectacle. With teams producing pulsating performance from the group-stages all the way through to the final at Wembley with an array of goals, goals and more goals being registered each game. Here is where the eleven players from Euro 2020's Team of The Tournament are three years on from the memorable competition as we gear up for Euro 2024 in Germany this summer. 

CRAIG HOPE: The journey that brought Mark Clattenburg on board with the Daily Mail began in the foyer of a social club in Seaham in 2017. He was - not for the first time and, as this week shows, not for the last - at the centre of a media storm. The best referee in the world, he was quitting the Premier League for Saudi Arabia halfway through the season. It was back-page news. Clattenburg, however, had a commitment to give a talk to raise money for a junior football club close to his County Durham home. I bought a ticket and sat at the back of the room. Moments before the scheduled start, he was made aware of my presence and left the stage. He wanted a chat in the foyer. Was I about to get a red card?

Matches have been so bonkers that it would be impossible to recall where you were when the craziness began to unfold for our viewing pleasure. Manchester United's snatched defeat from the jaws of victory on Thursday, allowing Chelsea's Cole Palmer to score twice in the dying seconds of stoppage time. Mail Sport gathered our top maddest games from the Premier League's recent return to action.

The latest international break may be over, but the narratives and discussions surrounding various national teams are only likely to rise in the run-up to Euro 2024. The 24 teams that will be competing in Germany this summer have been confirmed at the conclusion of Tuesday's play-off finals. Among the bookies' favorites to win the tournament are France, England, Germany, and Portugal, which will begin in Munich on June 14th.

IAN LADYMAN: During Covid times when the Premier League's chief executives and chairmen used to meet remotely via Zoom to address the numerous issues connected with lockdown and football behind closed doors, there was a running joke between a few of them. 'We had to choose who to allocate tickets to first when stadiums were slowly opening up with reduced capacity,' one executive told me.' 'We discussed important employees and stuff like that.' And the ruse was that Daniel Levy would honor his company's back before anyone else.'

The former Manchester City manager wanted to see his team advance to the quarter-finals of the tournament. In a penalty shoot-out, there was more drama after a nail-biting game ended 1-1 at the end of extra time. Since Korean goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo saved penalties from Sami Al-Najei and Abdulrahman Ghareeb, Mancini appeared to have seen enough as he walked down the tunnel before the winning penalty was awarded. Now, the boss has apologised by saying: 'I apologise for leaving early, I thought it was finished.' I didn't want to offend anyone.'

The former Manchester City manager was hoping to advance his team to the quarter-finals of the tournament. In a penalty shoot-out, there was also high drama after a nail-biting game ended 1-1 at the end of extra time. South Korea's national team, led by Jurgen Klinsmann, was meanwhile desperate to snap a 64-year Asian Cup drought. After Korean goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo saved penalties from Sami Al-Najei and Abdulrahman Ghareeb, Mancini seemed to have seen enough.

David Beckham and Roberto Mancini are among the well-wishers who have sluggishly called former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson after he revealed that he had been suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer. Sven, a footballer, has been fighting the disease for a year, only informing close family and acquaintances, but he revealed the shocking news during a Swedish radio station interview last week. Since then, his phone has been ringing all around the world, including England, Italy, Portugal, and even China, where he worked for four years. In the living room of his stunning home overlooking a frozen Lake Fryken in Sunne after welcoming us in, he spoke to MailOnline.

INTERVIEW BY JOE BERNSTEIN: Lee Nicholls, a goalkeeper for Huddersfield, has a bittersweet relationship with Manchester City, the team he plays on Sunday. Edin Dzeko and Yaya Toure were among the scorers on his Wigan debut, a 5-0 League Cup loss at the Etihad. The tart is still outweighed by the sweet, despite that. Nicholls was at Wembley with the Wigan team in 2013 to witness one of the greatest FA Cup final shocks when Ben Watson's late winner sank Roberto Mancini's City favorites.

SIMON JORDAN: If Jim Ratcliffe lands at Manchester United, he may do worse than take inspiration from Manchester City. Pep Guardiola has brought the club beyond recognition. They've gone from a championship-winning side under Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini to a team that defy conventional wisdom. Their triumph hasn't purely came from Guardiola, but it has come from the team's ability to have a strong vision and reach the target the club set for. United's needs to think a bit more like City, ironically.