Never so many players from the national team tour play in other championships. From tonals, lions, Calafiori and Donnarumma in Premier in Raspadori and Ruggeri in Liga up to Rate in Arabia: there are 11 around the world. And other younger people are ready to be added
Italians of Oltremanica. Young, strong … beautiful. Arne Slot said: “Giovanni Leoni? Is a beautiful boy, like most Italians”. Years 18 and millions 35 (including bonuses), those paid by Liverpool in the Parma coffers. From the Belpaese to England ‘snub “ours. Always the Reds manager: “He is high, fast, at ease with the ball”. For the series: Italians Do It Better. A bit like Riccardo Calafiori, aka Rickycala, the nickname of his Instagram profile stormed by the British. The reason? A video, gone viral, in which he jokes with the pop star Dua Lipa. Ah, then there is the field: at the first in the premier he planted a paw in Old Trafford against United. And now the Arsenal cuddles it. Sandro Tonali also went better: an ad hoc choir from the Newcastle fans. ‘He Drinks Moretti, Heats Spaghetti, He Hates Sunderland’, drinks Birra Moretti, Eat Spaghetti and hates Sunderland. A mix between clichés and esteem. Duty, the last one: in May he brought the first trophy in 66 years, and this year no one stops him anymore. Leoni, Calafiori, Tonali, three of the Moschettieri of England. Together they are 66 years old, up to the age of age in which you retire. They are young, they are Italian, they are strong. I am present and future of the national team. The front row of the export blues, read our playing abroad and on which Gattuso aims to fly to America.
Export Italians
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In front of all Gigio Donnarumma, champion of everything with the PSG, massacred and then pampered by the French press, now married to Guardiola’s Manchester City to start again. It will therefore still be far from what is an international Italy. In the blue lap, including Gigio and the three musketeers, there are eleven with three asterisks. The first: Federico Chiesa, fresh from the first goal in the premier after a year to Anfield from the appearance or a little more. So in June: “I relieve the national team”, but everything goes from the role he will play in the Liverpool of Slot. Then he can return to the center of the village. The second: Diego Coppola, 21 years old, one of the ‘least worst’ in Oslo’s defeat against Norway. From Verona to Brighton to study Van Dijk and challenge Haaland, but watch out for cooking: “A defect? The paste burns,” he told the Gazzetta. Gattuso left him at home but he is also for America. The third: Matteo Ruggeri, former Atalanta today in Madrid Atletico. A couple of calls with Spalletti, for Estonia and Israel will not be there but on the left it remains an alternative. It is the band where Dimarco act, Cambiaso (the two choices for Rino’s first Italy) and Destiny Udogie, 22 years old from Verona and thirty appearances in the premier with Tottenham. Out of 27 for a trouble in the knee, the ‘spurs’ quota will therefore be only one and that is Guglielmo Vicario, in London for two years and one of the fab Four of the door with Gigio, Carnesecchi and Meret. The last two blue citizens of the world are Mateo Restivui (at the Al-Qadsiah via Atalanta) and Giacomo Raspadori (at Atletico Madrid via Napoli), the top scorer of Serie A and a champion of Italy. A question for each. The first is chopped and found: is the Arab championship enough ‘training’? The second: will Jack find space from Cholo? And if so, how much? In short, everything goes from here.
never so many
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An Italy (never so) international. Imagining to qualify for America and leave with the group chosen by the CT to Estonia and Israel, we would play a world championship with 7 export Italian. Never so many. Some data to make the idea. At Euro 2024 there were three (Donnarumma, Vicario, Jorginho), same number at Euro 2020 (Verratti, Emerson, Jorginho), Euro 2012 (Sirigu, Thiago Motta, Balotelli) and at the 2014 World Cup (Sirigu, Thiago Motta and Verratti). Two more at Euro 2016 (Darmian, Ogbonna, Pellè, Thiago Motta and Sirigu), while the number drops drastically approaching the early years of the new millennium, from ‘zero’ to Euro 2000 and 2004 at the 2002 World Cup, where the only one to play abroad was Coco (Barcelona). Euro 2008 the exception (from Fuori Grosso, Zambrotta, De Sanctis and Toni), therefore the most famous ‘zero’ in Germany, 2006 worlds. All the heroes of Berlin played in Serie A, today we risk going to America with half the team that plays abroad. Meanwhile, the words of Gigi Buffon, head of the national team, summarize everything: “It is better if the Italian players play outside in the strongest clubs. Serie A is no longer the reference that was in the past”. And the other national teams? Answer: It depends. The Argentine world champion in Qatar had 25 out of 26 out of the borders, a bit like France in 2018 (14) or Portugal at Euro 2016 (15). Germany and Spain The two exceptions: the export Germans champions in Brazil in 2014 were only 6, while in their golden fourteenth century (2008-2012) the Spaniards never exceeded the 5 players registered outside national borders. For the series: we keep our best at home. And it works.
the future
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Mattia Zanotti, Guido della Rovere, Andrea Natali, Samuele Inacio, Luca Reggiani. They are Italian, they are even younger, they will be (hopefully) even stronger? Azzurrini scattered throughout Europe, from Switzerland to Germany. Guide Zanotti, 22 years old, right -wing interior interior and captain of the U21 at the last European Championship. In interesting they compared him to Zanetti “but it is difficult to imitate him,” he replied. Better ‘Tractor’, coined by companions in the spring. Today he plays Lugano and woe to talk to him about nostalgia for Italy. So Della Rovere, ‘Mister six figures’: he paid so much Bayern Munich to the Cremonese. 2007, midfielder or midfielder, does everything – and well – with left -handed. Still Germany with Natali, 17 years old, 190 centimeters and feet from Barça. Son of Caesar (ex Serie A), in 2024 he won the European U17 and is now in the round of the U19. The role? Defender as a dad. So the Dortmund, Inacio and Reggiani block, 2008 landed in Germany from Atalanta and Sassuolo. First Samuele Inacio Pià, Italian-Brazilian playmaker, another son of art. Hear dad, ex Atalanta and Naples: “He is already stronger than me”, meanwhile he leaves you on the spot nine times out of ten and to the European U17 he was the first Italian to become top scorer. Bonus: in June he also left for the Club World Cup. Reggiani tells herself: “I am good with the feet and in air duels”. Translated: he is a defender, but he prefers the assists to the slide. He skipped the euro U17 for injury, but in the CV he has already inserted a couple of closures on Adeyemi.
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