Should Pioli replace Spalletti as Italy’s manager? | ESPN FC Extra TIme

Kay Murray, Steve Nicol, Frank Leboeuf and Gab Marcotti answer your questions on ESPN FC Extra Time.
0:00 Is Kay acting?
0:46 How is Gab handling Italy’s loss?
2:04 Has lightning ever stopped a game you played in?
4:24 Did Havertz stop in his run-up?
8:04 Is it time for Stefano Pioli to take Italy?
9:44 Will Deschamps coach France at the World Cup?
11:39 Biggest surprise when you got to the United States?
17:08 Start, Bench or Drop: Iconic ESPN FC looks
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[@darj617]

This extra time was the funniest segment. Frank, Stevie and Kay are a really good combination

[@coronaviruscovid9437]

Kay is the best .. Dan talks so too much too many unnecessary things

[@user-bn3pc3or1t]

Kay Is such a catch. Wow

[@palatialslumlord4938]

Are you also 50 years old?

[@koseisan]

@@palatialslumlord4938i'd hit that and i'm 24

[@Mredkin]

simp

[@riheli4678]

💀​@@palatialslumlord4938

[@alexanderhansen6134]

A PAWG

[@shazadsheralikhan2302]

ONLY Carlo Ancelotti has the Mental Genius to Make ITALY AS FIFA WC CHAMPIONS AGAIN

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

probably knows the Italian FA well, and wants nothing to do with it.....

[@vincenzoriccio5036]

Obviously, Ancelotti would be great, but he'd never leave Madrid. So maybe Simone Inzaghi

[@jackmurphy6864]

Inzaghi will be aiming higher than the national team job, sadly.

[@kennethellingsen5902]

When you look at the first 60 seconds of the 2nd half, it's hillarious! All the forwards rushing towards the goal while the pass only makes it half way and results in a counterattack and 2-0

[@finfog4590]

It was weird. It became a ‘can’t mess this up’ pass.

[@hungchoonghow5857]

Italy has no one up front.

[@hzg8943]

Should adopt rugby union rules: once the kicker starts his run for the conversion kick, the opponents can charge towards him. Similarly, push the penalty spot back (or keep it as it is). Once the penalty-taker moves, the goalkeeper may charge forward, too.

[@Krispen_Wah]

which glue brand is your favorite?

[@roygroeneveld5582]

I would realllly like Dan and Kai being in 1 ESPN FC episode together. That would be fun😂

[@AM2K2]

Love having Frank in the studio 🤣

[@maroso7422]

Gab cannot say any better, swiss played and delivered. 🙌 🇮🇹 maybe next time. 🙏

[@amrit0]

Just Hire Jose. He understands Itallian football.

[@TheMissiIe]

He'll probably ask for too much, plus I doubt he wants to sit through a rebuild to MAYBE contend in 2 years

[@natoslayer2907]

Mourinho would be a fantastic hire for Italy.

[@amrit0]

@TheMissiIe His park the busy style and target man can win Italy another WC. Since Italian defense are always strong. In recent years defense and midfield has been no show. Jose can help them rebuilt and win 🏆

[@FrankieBlueEyes]

Literally was just hired at Fenerbahçe a couple weeks ago.

[@TheMissiIe]

@amrit0 I absolutely agree, he's perfect for Italy. I just don't think it's an appealing job for him

[@jason72818]

Can we get Kay and Dan to host an episode together as a one off, maybe near finals for euros, would be hilarious!

[@EpicGammingCrew]

Love seeing all of the virtual pundits start making their pilgrimage to Connecticut lol. Great seeing frank and Don in the studio the past couple weeks

[@palatialslumlord4938]

Gab Marcotti for Italy head coach, he can teach them how to eat every Italian food in sight

[@MyanmarImmigrants]

[@MrKaravaj]

Not a big deal. Euro winners have been knocked out in r16 for 3rd time in row now. Germany will also lose the final on home turf, making them 3rd straight team to lose like that. Please dont mention Spain, they will ruin it like 2022, 2020 and 2018

[@Cio_d-borba]

Spain will make it to the final an lose to Austria

[@clarencegaultieri8293]

It’s not losing but they way they went out without a fight that is alarming . It’s one thing to at least try and lose but to stand there and look like dummies for 90 minutes is another

[@jimmyyue238]

This year's France is like Greece 2004. Winning the euros before hosting Olympics.

[@CoconutJewce]

As an American, it's so nice to hear foreigners (mostly Frank here) talk very positively about the US. I feel like we've got a bad rep on the world stage, usually for good reasons lol, but the country is absolutely beautiful and diverse and has so many positives that are overshadowed by the negatives. Great question, ESPN.

[@Everythingharamishalal]

Very unusual to see Franck in the studio 😂

[@craigb7338]

Its not about who Italy should hire as next manager. Problem is this generation of Italian players are nowhere near as good as Italian teams of years gone by.

[@ulfanfinneriksen4643]

The weird run up. Stop, stutter should be disallowed on penalties.

[@ryanhopper2854]

Ok as an American them talking about why they loved this country actually really made me proud. Wasn’t expecting that

[@fancyslimoshady]

Ancelotti should take on Italy ...

[@user-gk6gz7dn2u]

Ancelotti is "him" but what reason does he have to coach italy?

[@fancyslimoshady]

@@user-gk6gz7dn2u because his country just had an embarrassing exit to the Euros ?

[@Cio_d-borba]

​@@user-gk6gz7dn2uBecause he's italian? After winning the CL 5 times, winning something with italy would make him the greatest coach ever in my eyes.

[@hungchoonghow5857]

He has to inherit a good team. The Italian national team is not a good team. Ancelloti coaching Italy is like coaching Everton. No, wait.

[@PS-dp8yg]

@@Cio_d-borba It really doesn't matter who you put there. The result is going to be the same. No players, no team. You could put Pep Guardiola and the result is still the same. For Ancelotti to take on Italy, he needs the players. Look what happened to him at Napoli and Everton.

[@MrLankyBrit]

I love Frank in the studio!!

[@aalkhalaf1]

Spaletti must go. The replacement should not be rushed.

[@michelemuratore6628]

The only one is Gasperini

[@jimbalboa8514]

I bet the Frenchman sitting there thinks about Zidane’s big, empty head as it got triggered in 2006 and got him ejected in the WC final. Hahah

[@konstantinospetrakos2536]

Gab was crying when the Scotsmen said both Italy out and then he compared switcher land with Brazil how original 😅

[@MarkanVaran7]

13:53Stevie LMAOOOOOOOOO

[@samuelgizaw7899]

Thought that was Frank in tbe thumbnail 😂

[@christianwag3015]

Franks in studio looks awkwardly funny 😆😆

[@Proteinhead92]

I love seeing frank on the show, he so funny

[@natoslayer2907]

The amount of handball penalties given with VAR is why you're seeing so much more long shots.

[@dapukisgoingon]

Gab Gab Gab, when the GOAT comes into town, you cheer, regardless of who you support. Pretty sure this applies to Messi as well. Maybe not the entire crowd, but surely the majority will.

[@Revelian1982]

Why on earth do ESPNFC insist on having this repetitive music so loudly over everyone speaking? Ridiculous!

[@badmotorbreath5206]

Yeah …I feel like putting my disco pants on again 😅

[@darj617]

"A Dan doesn't wear shorts!" The Sopranos

[@irisfailsafe]

I would love to be in that dinner with Dan and Frank

[@jc6087]

The current handball rule is unfair, even when we played as kids we'd just call it accidental and move on because that's the only fair way to deal with it.

[@miked2075]

Spaletti is staying. Italy will miss the 2026 World Cup.

[@caval141]

The glee from the so called experts,Nicholl/ Lebouf that Italy didn't beat Switzerland, who by the way fully deserved to win, shows their impartiality, not.

[@TachoSJ]

To answer the question in the headlines… NO

[@bellofigoitaliano5038]

We all know the only man for the Job is CARLO ANCELOTTI !

[@bikramjitpunia6996]

I would like Mad Max. I think tactically he is good and very good man manager

[@michaelrowell7798]

What a ridiculous question? Spaletti has hardly got his feet under the desk, and with a lack of quality in the team, this was bound to happen. I think Italian supporters need to be a little more realistic in terms of their team's development over the next 18 months or so.

[@hungchoonghow5857]

Gattuso or Materazzi.

[@jackmurphy6864]

Serie A is a disaster with young Italian players. They international youth teams are winning trophies, but the league sides much prefer to sell/loan out their Italian youth and buy in average foreigners instead.

[@sbodrillo]

Only one candidate: Claudi Ranieri.

[@CMEAGAIN]

Lose the background music

[@anointedvalery869]

U guys where criticizing vini junior after one match now he shows us what world class player he is. U still don't want to discuss it.

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

womp womp

[@tsimoi273]

They answer questions on this clip and if no one is asking about vini, they won't be discussing about him.

[@ishrendon6435]

Vini has one good game for brazil and you sucking his pee pee lol I don't know what's worse famboys or haters 😂 both are annoying men

[@palatialslumlord4938]

against PARAGUAY LOL.

[@nancyramos6872]

He still trash

[@eL--RaL]

Pioli??? Rather give Spalleti a 15 year contract and 500 feet statue. he's the worst 😂

[@frankkastler]

Pioli took over a struggling Milan side then brought them back to the Scudetto for the first time in a decade, not to mention he brought them to the Champions League every year after they missed top 4 for the better part of the decade. Milan was terrible before him, saying he's the worst laughable.

[@kadarabdullahi]

Germany 😮

[@lawtonloraine4144]

@@frankkastlertake no notice of him, he thinks he has climbed out his push chair trying to know how to walk.

[@kingsleynwofe1244]

Spaletti is a better manager with more experience than Pioli. Give him time to transition away from deadwood like el sharawy, cristante and the rest of them

[@shubhampawar7921]

​@@kingsleynwofe1244he bought these Deadwood players back to the squad.

[@ferrantepallas]

VAR has to go, it's ruining the game.

[@brianbunker2150]

Pioli should take over for GGG.

[@Magellanbleu]

Italian players sucks for 10 years. Spalletti is a great coach but he had no time for this Euro (9 months only). And he learnt because he looked very nervous. In 2026 we will have a real team with average players. Forza Italia with Spalletti.

[@hd6294]

Gab you are about to explos the buttons of your shirt 👕 😉

[@davidt3956]

There should be no stuttering allows given the goalies must remain on the line. Anything other than a smooth run up should be a foul.

[@StefanoMancini615]

Id perfer Simone Inzaghi but that'll probably never happen

[@samig9032]

What a romantic Frank is

[@ayelkikama4548]

allegri bouta take the italy job fr

[@StylistecS]

Wait. People don’t say hello to random people on the street in Europe?

[@apmoy70]

Depends on the country, Europe is a continent with 44 different countries, languages, cultures

[@AM2K2]

@@apmoy70 Exactly - that is such a broad question, the responses would be different in every area of a country let alone a continent

[@tonyyayo2115]

Italy should hire Miguel Herrera

[@lo5182]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thefourthchairman4151]

Italy should open to foreign managers Anyone should replace this Luciano Spaghetti

[@rosariorusso7777]

Ranieri is the man

[@battistimo]

The handball rule is stupid. The Italian jacket was horrific. It looked like it was spray painted on a homeless person’s jacket. Italy should have a non Italian take charge of the team.

[@tomek5019]

Friendly in New England? The rudest people I have met in the world are in Boston. People in NY and Chicago are polite in comparison.

[@Gius3pp3K]

BREAKING NEWS: Spalletti is staying 😢😢😢

[@Vixyone]

Wht about Gasperini?

[@clarencegaultieri8293]

Yes . He turns awful Players into pretty good ones and his style Of play is very good. His team beat the unbeaten Leverkusen handily

[@bradentour3993]

Lionfeld must be upset

[@TranCeFORM3R]

naaww poor thing, wait a miutute 😂

[@mayanksrivastava9313]

Pioli 😂, better support spain or France now than have a coach like pioli

[@ParissaKhoury]

It's time for Deschamps to retire and go enjoy his retirement on a boat in the south of France sipping on wine

[@Krispen_Wah]

Dechumps*

[@OPEN-qg2ui]

It's not the coach, Italy doesn't have the players to go all the way through.

[@zackq8865]

And who is responsible for picking and choosing the players? Think before you post nonsense next time

[@OPEN-qg2ui]

@@zackq8865 there isn't much to choose from...

[@haitiancreolewithluciano]

@@zackq8865 Who are the better players that he failed to call on?

[@lolph5438]

​@@haitiancreolewithlucianodidn't bring Locatelli, Veratti who although plays in Qatar now still has a lot to offer like Kante, Politano and Immobile who also would offer more, even in today's game he made a questionable decision by benching Cambiaso and completely changed Italy's playing style to a possession based playing style which doesn't suit Italy AT ALL

[@misterlexx2721]

​@@haitiancreolewithluciano Unless you watch Serie A you wont,know. Doesnt Italy have football academies?

[@hawaiihardy7285]

Jürgen Klopp

[@ixtoixbalanque4422]

Who wins the World Cup again first? Brazil or Italy? And when? Before or after 2070?

[@diodoruscronus]

Sharings caring

[@alessandronoto5688]

There’s 9 world cups between them bro. Show some respect for these 2 football nations.

[@jimbalboa8514]

Don’t know but we won’t have to worry about England or France picking any up before that either.

[@andymurday4538]

Italy and Brazil will win another World Cup or two before England ever will!!!

[@occelatus1063]

I wouldn´t sleep on Brazil just yet. If they win Copa they will gain their confidence. And if Endrick and/or Savio can develope in the next 2 years, they will acutally be a serious threat come next World Cup

[@anthonyuccello8450]

The french should never ever ever put their name in the same sentence as Italy in Football , fashion , food , and History

[@vincenzoriccio5036]

Well said 👏

[@englishman_in_arizona]

??????

[@jimbalboa8514]

@@englishman_in_arizona they don’t speak English in Arizona?

[@ktom5262]

Why? The French have great football, food and fashion.

[@ReEbHu_]

Inzaghi or Sarri or Conte

[@shubhammunda4758]

Conte is going to Napoli

[@PS-dp8yg]

Oh God... not Pioli

[@clarencegaultieri8293]

Gasperini best option . Ancelotti will never coach them

[@user-sq8mt8gl5u]

Either Allegri or Sarri. Ancelotti’s the best choice for them.

[@finfog4590]

Allegri will scout well and gut this team

[@ss-nr8cu]

The best and only choice is get rid of huge numbers of foreign players which dominate the big clubs...and focusing on Italian players...this is the only choice...Italy bad football not because of the coach..

[@grapeappletwist]

Allegri?! 🤢🤮

[@user-sq8mt8gl5u]

@@grapeappletwist You’re responding to all of my comments. Meanwhile, I’m half French half Georgian. So you’re not having any effects on me at all with the L

[@user-sq8mt8gl5u]

@@grapeappletwist Allegri’s 2015 Juve was lit, so was 2018

[@gianxx2727]

STEFANO PIOLIII ALEEEE OOOOO

[@cubant2258]

Anchelotti

[@someguy6212]

Bring back Conte!

[@stephenwilliams2713]

Del piero italy or Jueventus or Baggio

[@briankin1827]

Too late

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Already lmao??

[@andreacarbonari]

PIOLI 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Cervetz]

Allegri

[@tsimoi273]

Oh I feel like 🤮 when I see Frank.

[@mamadousy9632]

sucks to be you

[@Krispen_Wah]

You want Pioli to rebuild italy? The same Pioli that has brought Milan to a halt and complete stagnation? Oh please... Pioli would still play Giroud even if he was 60 years old Not the right person to start someting new...

[@sterudd3449]

steve nichol. get educated

[@CrayCray9]

Spaletti isn’t the problem Italy’s problem is bigger than the manager. Italy doesn’t produce the elite players that they used, they need complete over hauling of their program, the league went from the top league in the 80s to the dustbin of Europe.

[@anthonyuccello8450]

They have good players we just need a good manager . Ancelotti , Allegri , Conte, Gasp

[@fancyslimoshady]

That is absolutely false and a wives tale. Dont fall for this English ideology that "elite" status means you have a $100 milion salary ...

[@diodoruscronus]

​@anthonyuccello8450 oh yeah. Who's a good player? Scamacca has 20 games...1 goal. Vieri would have something to say.

[@fancyslimoshady]

@diodoruscronus dude scamacca can't score if he's not serviced lol. You think he's magically going to take the ball and 1 v 1 each defender ? Dude can't even get a header in with those atrocious crosses

[@vincenzoriccio5036]

Italy produces great managers, and as for the league, it's definitely reaching the heights again with lots of teams getting to finals and qualifying for Europe. Also, the U17, U19 won the euros, and the U20 came 2nd in WC. In Italy, they don't trust their youth, poor development, and lack of investment from the clubs. This is the problem they need to fix. This is why Italy has been poor since 2010 except 2012/2021.

[@Marta-k5f]

Questo filo ricorda la bellezza e la complessità della mente umana. È una meraviglia da vedere.💖

[@serialkilla23]

pioli is horrible in milan......ancelotti should take over....match fixing italian.

[@anthonyuccello8450]

Allegri

[@grapeappletwist]

🤢🤮