France, Italy turn to native soccer coaches

France and Italy named their new men's national soccer team managers — a Frenchman and an Italian, leaving them among the few countries that have very rarely employed foreign coaches.

Zinedine Zidane and Roberto Mancini have different briefs: France are recent winners, while Italy last reached a World Cup in 2014. But they are both natives, a rare thing. In the 2022 World Cup, just nine countries had foreign coaches; this year, 27.