(Montella) The story behind this trend in Social Media today
03-10-2026
I’ll look up what the Montella social-media trend refers to and the story behind it.Montella is trending because of Vincenzo Montella, the Italian coach of the Turkey national team, and the backlash after two heavy home defeats in the UEFA Nations League.Turkey lost 0-1 to France and then 1-4 to Italy in late September 2026, both at home. Against Italy, the score was already 0-3 inside the first half hour. Sections of the crowd in Bursa whistled Montella and the Turkish Football Federation leadership, and chants calling for both to go were widely shared. The federation president had earlier promised players villas in Bodrum if Turkey reached the 2026 World Cup; fans turned that line against the officials as well.Montella has refused to resign. After the Italy match he said he still believes in the work and the players, that he would talk to the squad first if resignation ever became an issue, and that it is not on the agenda. He has pointed to the gap in squad value (Italy’s group was valued far higher than Turkey’s) and to the jump in level: Turkey had been in League C a few years earlier and is now in League A. He was kept on after Turkey’s group-stage exit at the 2026 World Cup, so the Nations League losses have reopened that argument.A separate viral clip claiming he slapped players in the dressing room after the Italy defeat has been debunked as a manipulated video. The kits do not match, and Montella does not speak Turkish the way the audio suggests.The name is also tied to older clips that still circulate, including a short, intense locker-room speech (with a translator) from earlier in 2026, and to nostalgia edits of his playing days at Roma with Totti and Batistuta. The current spike, though, is the coaching crisis: fans split between those who want him out immediately and those who argue the squad would struggle even more without him, ahead of the next Nations League fixtures.