STORY: Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini said on Tuesday (March 11) he wanted to leave the club at the end of the season. The coach made the announcement after Inter were knocked out of the Champions League last 16 after losing 1-0 at home to Liverpool and 3-0 on
aggregate.
"The next two and a half months will be my last guiding Inter," he told a shocked news conference.
"I have told the boys and it's right to tell everyone. It is a decision I have taken and it does not depend on the defeat tonight." There was no official statement from Inter and there had been no hint he would make such an announcement.
Inter romped to the Italian title under Mancini last season and are six points clear this term. However they have limped out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage for the second successive season. Mancini, Inter coach since July 2004, added that he wanted to leave
Inter with another scudetto and an Italian Cup in the bag.
On to F1 Racing.
McLaren and Ferrari Formula One teams are in Australia preparing for practice, qualifying and the Australian Grand Prix itself on Sunday. Over recent weeks all eleven Formula One teams have been testing and preparing for the season-opening Australian race with most observers agreed
that Ferrari have shown the best pre-season form with McLaren improving
rapidly.
Lewis Hamilton remains at McLaren but two-times world champion Fernando Alonso, who had a turbulent time with the team in 2007, is now back at Renault, and Finland's Heikki Kovalainen is Hamilton's new team mate. Fans of Alonso have suggested that Hamilton will not do as well as last season without the help and input of Alonso at McLaren. However Hamilton said
he was full of confidence about the forthcoming season. "I guess every year I get more and more determined, more and more confident in my abilities, and I feel so confident now that with what I
learned last year I can produce really produce something really good this year
with the help of the team so I feel great right now," he said.
Inevitably there has been some speculation that Kovalainen might feel left out at McLaren and create a rift between the teamates, in the same way that Alonso suggested the team were favouring Hamilton, yet Kovalaninen disagreed.
"I think we are going to have a great relationship and you know we
can push together the team forwards," he said.
"I think we get on together well on a personal level. I consider
Lewis my friend and I have known his family for a long time as well, so I
think we are going to have a really good time together. We both want to enjoy
racing you know, I would do everything to beat him there's no question about
that but he would do the same to beat me as well and we respect each other a
lot so I don't see any problems, I can't imagine a situation where we would
have a problem that we couldn't sort out."
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