Italian manager in India getting behind his former team (7)

I believe the answer is:

mancini

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'behind his former team' is the definition.
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'italian manager in india getting' is the wordplay.
'italian manager' becomes 'manc' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'manc'+'in'+'i'='MANCINI'

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(Another definition for mancini that I've seen is " film composer".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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