{"id":28211,"date":"2026-04-13T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luciano-spalletti-signs-new-juventus-contract-amid-italy-links\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:00:20","slug":"luciano-spalletti-signs-new-juventus-contract-amid-italy-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luciano-spalletti-signs-new-juventus-contract-amid-italy-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Luciano Spalletti signs new Juventus contract amid Italy links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Juventus manager Luciano Spalletti has signed a two-year contract extension with the club, effectively ruling him out of a return to the Italy national team.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spalletti was linked with the vacant Italy manager&#8217;s job following the resignation of Gennaro Gattuso last week, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c208ge6p142t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Italy failed to qualify for a third consecutive men&#8217;s World Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spalletti, 67, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy7epp72ek0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">took charge of Juventus<\/a> on a short-term contract in October following the sacking of Igor Tudor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since Luciano joined our great Juventus family, he has had an immediate and very positive impact on our players, the whole club and the entire Bianconeri community,&#8221; Juventus CEO Damien Comolli said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was immediately clear to everyone that Luciano was the right person to lead the team on a path of growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Roma and Inter Milan boss Spalletti led Napoli to a first Serie A title in 33 years in 2023, before leaving the club that summer to become Italy manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His Italy side suffered a last-16 exit at Euro 2024, and he was dismissed in June 2025 after a 3-0 World Cup qualifier loss to Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March last year he said that Napoli would be the last Italian club he ever coached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus are fifth in the Serie A table with 57 points, one point off the Champions League places with seven games remaining.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gvkg7e8mro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus manager Luciano Spalletti has signed a two-year contract extension with the club, effectively ruling him out of a return to the Italy national team. Spalletti was linked with the vacant Italy manager&#8217;s job following the resignation of Gennaro Gattuso last week, after Italy failed to qualify for a third consecutive men&#8217;s World Cup. Spalletti, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28213,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211\/revisions\/28213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}