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Under 21 coach Carmine Nunziata has named the squad for the direct clash on Tuesday 15th October in Trieste against Ireland for qualification for the 2025 European Championships scheduled for Slovakia.


The real novel is Marco Palestra, defender of Atalanta born in 2005. Mattia Viti, defender of Empoli, returns after more than a year and a half. The coach will not be able to count on Diego Coppola (Verona). The team will meet on the evening of Sunday 6 October at the Olympic Preparation Center in Tirrenia where, from the next day, preparations for the match in Trieste will begin. A friendly against Livorno (Series D) is scheduled for Thursday 10 October, kick-off at 3pm.


Here is the complete list.


Goalkeepers: Sebastiano Desplanches (Palermo), Jacopo Sassi (Modena), Gioele Zacchi (Latina); Defenders: Nicolò Bertola (Spezia), Giovanni Bonfanti (Pisa), Daniele Ghilardi (Hellas Verona), Michael Olabode Kayode (Fiorentina), Marco Palestra (Atalanta), Lorenzo Pirola (Olympiacos), Nicolò Savona (Juventus), Riccardo Turicochia ), Mattia Viti (Empoli), Mattia Zanotti (Lugano); Midfield: Tommaso Baldanzi (Roma), Alessandro Bianco (Monza), Edoardo Bove (Fiorentina), Cesare Casadei (Chelsea), Giovanni Fabbian (Bologna), Jacopo Fazzini (Empoli), Fabio Minetti (Genoa), Cher Ndour (Besiktas ), Matteo Prati (Cagliari); Forwards: Giuseppe Ambrosino (Frosinone), Francesco Pio Esposito (Spezia), Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds), Luca Koleosho (Burnley) Italy, who will play just one game in this final qualification window, could find himself arithmetic first Friday 11, the day Ireland-Norway: if there was success for the Norwegians, beaten 3-0 by Italy in Stavanger, the Azzurrini would be toasting four days before. In fact, the teams from the nine groups and the three best second-placed teams advance to the final stage; the remaining six runners-up will play a round-robin play-off for three more places.