Italy coach Luciano Spalletti will stay in his job despite the holders' meek exit from the European Championship last 16, federation president Gabriele Gravina said on Sunday.
The Swiss dominated the Azzurri to win 2-0 on Saturday in Berlin and advance to the quarter-finals.
"Demanding resignations is not right," Gravina told reporters at Italy's base. "Spalletti has our trust. We need patience."
The 70-year-old Gravina confirmed he would also not step down.
After missing out on the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, with a Euro title inbetween under Roberto Mancini, this was the worst European Championship performance for Italy since 2004.
"We have to scrutinize everything," added Gravina.
Referring to Spalletti only taking over in September when Mancini left for Saudi Arabia, he said: "We knew from the outset that this was a multi-year project. It is not possible to abandon a project like this after just a few months."
Italy have lost centre-back pillars Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci to international retirement while the forward stars of 2021, such as Lorenzo Insigne, Ciro Immobile and Manuel Locatelli, are also no longer in the squad.
A big rebuilding job is due
"We won't have a player like Mbappé or Ronaldo in the coming months, that's unrealistic," said the federation boss. "But it would be an immense disaster to miss out on qualifying for the World Cup for the third time in a row."
Spalletti defended himself against heavy criticism from the Italian press pack, with headlines on Sunday including "national failure" in Turin's Tuttosport, "a disgrace" in Rome's Corriere dello Sport and "What an embarrassment!" in Milan's influential Gazzetta dello Sport.
"I took over the team at a difficult moment and I tried to adapt to it. Up to a certain point, we did a good job," the former Napoli coach said on Sunday. "I did some things wrong. I tried to rejuvenate the team. If I am staying, that will happen even more in the future."
A Swiss reporter asked Spalletti after the game whether Italy had been a Fiat Panda and Switzerland a Ferrari.
Spaletti reacted angrily: "You have to accept everything, even insinuations of bad taste like yours. It's clear that you are a person of great irony."
The 65-year-old coach and his press officer then explicitly asked the journalist several times for his name and employer.
"You were better than us and deserved to win," added Spalletti. "We will try to do better next time."
