“Italy’s Squad for Nations League Finals: Mancini Calls 26 Players”

The editorial staff Monday 29 May 2023, 7.43pm

L’Italiafor the second time in its history, will play the finals of Nations League. On the road of the blues there will be the Spain: appointment on 15 June in Enschede, while the Netherlands, hosts, will face Croatia. The preparation for Italy will begin on Sunday: at the end of the last match of A leaguethe meeting will start in Rome. There are 26 players called up by Roberto Manciniwith the technical commissioner who, recently, has spared no criticism for the organization of the calendar.

Italy, Nations League: Mancini’s squad

They are missing from the list of blues George Scalvini e Sandro Tonaliwhich will be available to coach Paolo Nicolato in view of the final phase of the European Under 21 Championship. The Fiorentina and Inter players are also missingengaged respectively on June 7 in the Conference League final and on June 10 in the last act of the Champions League, while for the first time there will be Federico Baschirotto. Instead, we see Nicolo Zaniolo, at the first blue call since he arrived at Galatasary. This, therefore, is the squad list (which from 26 will become 23):
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), *Alex Meret (Naples), Guglielmo Vicario (Empoli);
Defenders: Federico Baschirotto (Lecce), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Alessandro Buongiorno (Turin), *Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Naples), Alessandro Florenzi (Milan), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta) ,
Midfielders: Bryan Cristante (Roma), Davide Frattesi (Sassuolo), Jorginho (Arsenal), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Matteo Pessina (Monza), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain), Nicolò Zaniolo (Galatasaray);
Forwards: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), *Giacomo Raspadori (Naples), *Mateo Retegui (Tigre), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).

* in the event of official commitments with your club, the players indicated may postpone their arrival at the training camp