Trapattoni wants it even more now

IRELAND’S World Cup draw has only served to sharpen Giovanni Trapattoni’s appetite for leading the country on the road to Rio.

The manager has always made clear that he wants to stay on in the role after the current European Championships but, following Saturday night’s draw in Brazil, he now says that the presence in Ireland’s group of Germany and Austria —countries in which he enjoyed success at the helm of, respectively, Bayern Munich and Red Bull Salzburg — makes the prospect of leading Ireland into the 2014 qualifying campaign even more enticing.

“Of course,” he says, speaking from his home in Milan where he watched Saturday’s proceedings in Rio.