Plenty of challenges for Conte

New Italian coach charged with turning around team's fortunes

Unloved even in its own country, Italy's national team clearly needs a radical overhaul and, if anyone can do it, then it is the steely-willed Antonio Conte who was named as its new coach on Thursday.

In three seasons as Juventus coach, Conte turned it from a floundering mid-table outfit into the dominant side in Italian soccer, winning a hat-trick of Serie A titles.