Soccer: Italiano named Bologna coach

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 5 - Former Fiorentina boss Vincenzo Italiano on Wednesday became the new coach of Bologna, a team that will be rubbing shoulders with European soccer royalty in the Champions League next season.
    Bologna said Italiano had signed a two-year contract, until June 30 2026.
    The 46-year-old had been at Fiorentina for three years and led the Viola to the finals of the Conference League in the season that has just ended and the previous term and the Italian Cup in the 2022-23 campaign - losing all three.
    He ireplaces Thiago Motta, who did not renew his contract after leading Bologna to a fifth-placed finish in Serie A and qualification for the Champions League.
    Motta, 41, has been strongly linked to Juventus after the Turin giants sacked Massimiliano Allegri. (ANSA).