will be the new ds of the club – Corriere.it

Another Left-handed to Sampdoria 26 years after the farewell of Roberto, today Italy’s coach of the reigning European champions. He wore the Sampdoria shirt for 15 years, from 1982 to 1997, winning among other things a Scudetto in 1991 and playing in the 1992 Champions Cup final lost in extra time against Barcelona, ​​paired up front with Gianluca Vialli (who died last January 6 for pancreatic cancer). Now there will be his son Andrea, who will be 31 on August 13.

Sampdoria will restart from Serie B and Mancini junior will be the new sporting director of the club. The new team is therefore taking shape with the arrival of Andrea Pirlo as coach and the definitive farewell of Quagliarella. The coach’s son would initially land on the Sampdoria side of Genoa as a scout in the area led by Giani. However, the idea of ​​the Sampdoria club, by virtue of the boy’s license, would also be to possibly use him, as Telenord points out, also in the role of sports director: so as to fully take care of the incoming and outgoing market. “I would like to face this world and live it in an atypical way,” he told gianlucadimarzio.com in June 2022. And again: «Taking care of the more technical part, trying to find and discover young talents. Guys to help and accompany, thanks to what I learned as a player».

Andrea Mancini is Roberto’s younger son. Like his father, and with a heavy surname on his shoulders, he embarked on a career as a footballer, only to say goodbye to football in 2017 at the age of 25. He grew up in the youth teams of Inter, Bologna and Manchester City, making his professional debut in 2010 for Oldham in the British lower leagues. From there he wore the shirts of Fano and Valladolid B, to then settle in Hungary at Honved and then at Haladas. Finally, Mancini junior moved to the United States, to the Mls, to finish with DC United and the New York Cosmos.