UNITED KINGDOM: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - World Cup winner Marcello Lippi is still looking for an interesting club to coach

Record ID: 784711

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - World Cup winner Marcello Lippi is still looking for an interesting club to coach
  • Date: 15th March 2008
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) MARCELLO LIPPI, TALKING ABOUT COACHING IN ENGLAND, SAYS: "It could be an interesting experience but I can't go knocking on the doors of the clubs. If a club were to come to me we could talk." QUESTION, in general where do you see your future? (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) MARCELLO LIPPI SAYS: "I still see my future on a football pitch for a few years yet, as soon as there's a solution which I like, one that interests me." LIPPI WITH AWARD (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) MARCELLO LIPPI, ASKED ABOUT COACHING ANOTHER NATION'S TEAM, SAYS: "No, a coach who has just won the World Cup with his national side can't go and work with another country's team." LIPPI WITH AWARD (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) MARCELLO LIPPI, ASKED ABOUT HIS FAVOURITE FOR EURO 2008, SAYS: "Italy, Italy, Italy. I certainly hope so, okay." LIPPI WITH OTHER AWARD WINNERS
  • Embargoed: 30th March 2008 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: People,Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA14JMFENSUJ3ADIX1AIFELGEA
  • Story Text: Italy's World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi receives award and confesses he is looking for a club to manage.
    Marcello Lippi, who coached Italy to their 2006 World Cup triumph, was honoured at a festival celebrating La Dolce Vita in London on Thursday (March 13) and confessed that he was waiting for a chance to get back into club management - perhaps with an English club.
    Lippi, who won five Serie A titles and the 1996 Champions League during two spells with Juventus, was applauded by London's Italians as he received their Dolce tribute trophy, and then he was pursued by a swarm of supporters, eager to shake his hand.
    The coach stepped down from the national job after Italy's victory in Germany and, as he jokingly told the crowd from the stage, "since the last World Cup I have been the only one without a job."
    Linked since with several European clubs, Lippi said he missed being in the dugout, telling Reuters: "I still see my future on a football pitch for a few years yet - as soon as there's a solution which I like, one that interests me."
    Asked whether he was tempted by a move into English football, an option he discussed in a 1997 autobiography, Lippi said: "It could be an interesting experience; but I can't very well go knocking on the doors of the clubs.
    "If a club were to come to me, we could talk." But the 59-year-old was talking about club football not about national teams.
    "A coach who has just won the World Cup with his national side can't go and work with another country's team," he said.
    The Tuscan has no doubts who was his favourite for the Euro 2008 tournament in Switzerland and Austria in June.
    "Italy, Italy, Italy" he said, "I certainly hope so."
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