Andrea Pirlo is reportedly set to become Roberto Mancini’s Italy assistant, while Massimo Ambrosini could take the same role with the Under 21s.

According to Calciomercato.com, Mancini’s lawyer and wife Silvia Fortini is due to meet FIGC executives over formalising his two-year contract worth €2m plus bonuses.

She is then expected to fly to Russia on Friday for talks with Zenit St Petersburg President Sergey Fursenko, where she will try to free her husband from his three-year deal.

Andrea Pirlo is reportedly set to become Roberto Mancini’s Italy assistant, while Massimo Ambrosini could take the same role with the Under 21s.

According to Calciomercato.com, Mancini’s lawyer and wife Silvia Fortini is due to meet FIGC executives over formalising his two-year contract worth €2m plus bonuses.

She is then expected to fly to Russia on Friday for talks with Zenit St Petersburg President Sergey Fursenko, where she will try to free her husband from his three-year deal.

As for his backroom staff, Pirlo has been put forward as the 53-year-old’s assistant, in what would his first coaching role since hanging up his boots last October.

The same would also apply for Ambrosini, another former Milan and Italy midfielder, who has been tipped to work alongside presumably Luigi Di Biagio with the U21s.

CM concludes the only coach joining Mancini from Zenit will be fitness trainer and long-term collaborator Ivan Carminati.

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