Inter Milan dismiss coach Mancini

Roberto Mancini originally said he would quit Inter in March

Inter Milan have sacked coach Roberto Mancini, who has been linked with the vacant manager's job at Chelsea.
Despite leading Inter to three successive Serie A titles, Mancini's future had been in doubt since March.
After Inter's Champions League defeat to Liverpool, Mancini said he would quit the club at the end of the season, but changed his mind a day later.
Inter said on Thursday the 43-year-old Mancini was dismissed because of his comments after the Liverpool defeat.
Mancini's exit increases speculation that the Italian could become the next manager at Chelsea following the departure of Avram Grant on Saturday.
Jose Mourinho has long been linked with the Inter coaching job and the former Blues boss is the firm favourite to replace Mancini. Club president Massimo Moratti and Mancini had met on Tuesday, but the club made no comment for 48 hours following those talks.
"FC Internazionale have informed Roberto Mancini that he has been sacked as coach," said the Inter statement.
"In particular because of the comments made by the coach at the end of the Inter-Liverpool match."
Mancini joined Inter in 2004 and as well as those three Serie A titles he also guided the club to successive Italian Cup victories in 2005 and 2006.
On Wednesday Mancini's agent Maurizio De Giorgis told BBC Sport: "He no longer works for Internazionale. He's available for work if he gets a phone call."
Before moving to Inter, Mancini had previously coached Fiorentina and Lazio.

Fifa votes for foreign quota plan

Fifa has voted overwhelmingly in favour of president Sepp Blatter's 'six-plus-five' plan, which would limit the foreign players in a team to five.
Fifa wants to bring in the proposal by 2012/2013 but the European Commission says it is discriminatory and illegal.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is still keen to implement the ruling

FA chief executive Brian Barwick is unconvinced by the strategy and he said: "It's about balance. "We still believe in the meritocracy of players in the team on performance and on ability first and foremost."
The Commission believes a quota on foreign footballers would be incompatible with EU law which allows workers to move freely between member countries.
"We're giving a red card to the rule," said Vladimir Spidla, Europe's Commissioner for Equal Opportunities.
But Blatter is keen to work with the EU and Uefa to make it a reality and he has adopted an approach of "consultation not confrontation", according to the BBC news reporter Phil Mercer. Blatter has backed off his initial intention to take on the EU if necessary to force the plans through.
Bose added that the vote for the quota was a support for it rather than a rule change.
"The congress was very happy in a result of overwhelming majority, with 155 votes in favour and five against. 155 yes and five no," said Blatter after the Fifa congress, which was held in Sydney, Australia.
"It is an overwhelming support to this resolution.
"The Fifa president has asked, together with the Uefa president (Michel Platini), to explore - and explore is not to discuss, it's to go in depth - within the limits of the law.
Blatter has a meeting with the EU on 5 June and he added: "Speaking about it is illegal? For whom? For when? If there is a law, a law can be amended."
John McDonald is a spokesman for the European Commissioner for Sport and he told he does not expect Blatter's ambitions to succeed on this front. "It is a non-starter as far as we are concerned," he said.
"Interestingly the wording that Mr Blatter mentioned this morning at his press conference was that the resolution of Fifa is to explore within the limits of the law the six plus five rule.
"And they can explore as much as they like but unfortunately a six plus five rule is against Community legislation."
Blatter wants to restrict the number of foreign players in teams by the start in the 2010/11 season, with a minimum of four home-grown players.
He added he expects it to grow to six, with a maximum of five foreigners, by 2012/13 - and claims the plan has the backing of key European delegates.
In contrast, the "home-grown players" rule, which is set to be expanded from next season, has received EU backing.
That means four players in a Champions League or Uefa Cup squad must have been developed by the club, with another four having been produced by clubs from the same federation.
To be eligible, a player of any nationality must have been developed by the club for three years between the ages of 15 and 21.
Jan Figel, EU Commissioner for Education, Training and Youth, said Uefa's proposals did not discriminate against nationality and encouraged clubs to develop their academies.
"Measures which require the top European clubs to preserve quality training structures seem to me to be necessary," said Figel.
"The Uefa rule thus avoids the risk of professional football clubs abandoning training structures."