Euro 2024: Italian coaches are dominating dugouts, here's the reason why

Italy continues a tradition at the European Championship with Italian coaches this time five in charge of national teams at the tournament in Germany.

Italy coach Luciano Spalletti is joined by Vincenzo Montella (Turkey), Domenico Tedesco (Belgium), Marco Rossi (Hungary) and Francesco Calzona (Slovakia).

With five of the 24 teams in Germany led by Italians, this tops the Netherlands' mark of having three coaches out of 16 teams at Euro 2008.

All but Tedesco studied at the Italian federation's coaching school, directed by former coach Renzo Ulivieri, also the president of the Italian soccer coaches' association.

It is a great source of pride for all of Italian soccer and especially for our coaching school, Ulivieri said in an interview with The Associated Press.

We think that our coaches are excellent, for two reasons: ours is a good school and then, the coaches have a very educational apprenticeship within our leagues, both in the professional leagues, but also in the amateur