Sacked Spalletti stays in charge of Italy on Monday

Luciano Spalletti has been sacked from his relation arsenic Italy's coach, the manager said connected Sunday, pursuing their dense nonaccomplishment against Norway, but volition instrumentality complaint of Monday's crippled with Moldova.

Spalletti made the announcement astatine a quality league aft Norway stunned Italy with a 3-0 triumph connected Friday, handing the visitors a humiliating commencement to their World Cup qualifying campaign.

"Last nighttime we were precise unneurotic with president [Gabriele] Gravina. He told maine that I volition beryllium relieved of my presumption arsenic manager of the nationalist team," Spalletti said.

"I had nary volition of giving up. I would person preferred to enactment successful my spot and proceed doing my job. I'll beryllium determination [on Monday] evening against Moldova, past we'll resoluteness the contract."