Italian soccer legend Roberto Baggio is looking forward to a coaching career which may include a stint at a J. League club or as Italian national team boss, he said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.

"As a professional player I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player," he said when asked whether he was weighing offers from J. League clubs.

"I would have to think about coaching other clubs before coaching the national team."