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The Italian national team will make a 3-day training in the period January 26-28, so that coach Roberto Mancini can verify the condition of the players, on the eve of the decisive World Cup Play Off, scheduled for March.
Names like Bonucci, Acerbi, Emerson, Pellegrini, Belotti and Chiesa, who are injured, are expected to be missing from the squad, while coach Mancini is expected to call up some new names to fill the group with which he will be represented in the Play Off .
Thus the novelty will be the return to the representative of Italy, of the striker Mario Balotelli, who in recent years has had a significant decline in career and has become mostly the protagonist for feats off the field.
However, the 31-year-old has found stability in the Turkish club of Adana Demirspor and the man who launched him in professional football, Roberto Mancini has decided to give him another chance, at a very important moment for Italy.
Along with Balotelli, Manolo Gabbiadini is also expected to receive an invitation, who for the last time in Italy, has gathered in the play-off against Sweden in the fall of 2017, when the “blues” were eliminated and lost the right to compete. in Russia 2018.
Naturalized players will not be missing either, as names like Joao Pedro of Cagliari and Luis Felipe of Lazio are expected to join Italy, two Brazilians who seem to have chosen to represent the “blues” in the international arena.
The novelty will also be the midfielder who is standing out with Sassuolo, Davide Frattesi, who will have three days to convince Mancini, to send him an invitation for the Play Off of March, which will see ” The Blues ”will challenge northern Macedonia in the semifinals and in case of qualification, will face the winner of the Portugal-Turkey pair.
However the real surprise of the list are two Cremoneses players in Serie B, goalkeeper Carnesecchi and midfielder Nicolo Fagioli.
Full list:
Goalkeepers: Marco Carnesecchi (Cremonese), Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Genoa).
Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Davide Calabria (Milan), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Mattia De Sciglio (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Alessandro Florenzi (Milan), Luiz Felipe (Lazio ), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Luca Pellegrini (Juventus), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta).
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolò Fagioli (Cremonese), Davide Frattesi (Sassuolo), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Samuele Ricci (Empoli), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Sandro Tonali (Milan).
Forwards: Mario Balotelli (Adana Demirspor), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Joao Pedro (Cagliari), Giacomo Raspadori (Sassuolo), Gianluca Scamolo , Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma).
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