The former captain of Italy World Champion in 2006 will lead one of the 18 national teams already qualified for the world championship scheduled in 2026 in the United States, Canada and Mexico
Twenty years after raising the world cup as captain of Italy at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Fabio Cannavaro is ready to return to the World Cup. This time, of course, on the bench. The former 52 -year -old footballer, now coach, has reached a verbal agreement to become the new CT of Uzbekistan, which is among the 18 teams already qualified for the world championship scheduled in the summer of 2026 between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Cannavaro New CT of Uzbekistan
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This will be the second adventure for Fabio Cannavaro at the helm of a national team, after the one on the China bench, for just 52 days, in 2019: who took over from Interim in Marcello Lippi on March 7, he resigned on April 28 after two defeats. For the rest, the former defender of Parma, Juventus and Real Madrid has experienced experiences especially with clubs, many of which are short and not particularly positive. From November 2014 to June 2015 he is at Guangzhou Evergrande, from which he is exonerated after 11 wins, 7 draws and 5 defeats, replaced by Luis Felipe Scolari. From 26 October 2015 to February 2016 he goes to Arabia to Al Nassr, but also here the adventure ends prematurely by decision of the company. For the moment, his best seasons have been those spent at the helm of Tianjin Quanjian (from June 2016 to November 2017), taken in the second Chinese series and dragged to third place in the first, and again at Guangzhou (from November 2017 to September 2021), with which he wins a championship and a super cup of China. In the Curriculum del Cannavaro coach also two experiences in Italy: with Benevento in Serie B (from September 2022 to February 2023) with which he gets just 3 wins in 17 games before being exonerated; And with Udinese for the last 5 days of the 2023-24 season, managing to reach salvation. Last year, from December 2024 to April 2025, the former 2006 world champion had been in Croatia, to Dinamo Zagreb, with whom the satisfaction of beating Milan was removed on the last day of the Champions League championship phase, but from which it was exonerated after a score of 7 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats in 14 official matches.