Sylvinho's era on the Albania bench has ended at the Warsaw stadium where Albania lost its chance for the World Cup.
And while Sylvinho's contract ends in July, Dritan Shakohoxha has revealed a surprise name that could be the new coach of the Albanian national team. According to Shakohoxha, the Albanian Football Association is in talks with former famous Italian footballer, Fabio Cannavaro.
Shakohoxha said that the Albanian Football Association only hires foreign coaches, robbing them of the leading role.
"These men (foreign coaches over the years) have cost 17 million euros."
40 years ago, the federation of the time hired a German coach and put two coaches in to teach him. We hire foreigners because we want attention to ourselves. When Albania wins, the coaches talk for a while, then the Federation speaks, because everyone gets credit.
"Now they say that Cannavaro will become a coach, someone we saw on TV. We will take it to mean that we hired him. 90% of the coaches we hired were good footballers, but not coaches ," said Shakohoxha on the show "The Unexposed".
Fabio Cannavaro is currently the coach of the Uzbekistan national team.
Cannavaro will lead Uzbekistan to the 2026 World Cup, where the team has already qualified.
For the 52-year-old, this is his second experience as a national coach, after a brief stint with China in 2019. In his coaching career, he has worked in China with Guangzhou Evergrande and Tianjin Quanjian, in Saudi Arabia, as well as in Italy with Benevento and Udinese.
Cannavaro's last experience was with Dinamo Zagreb, from which he left in April of this year.