Baldini’s list for the next two friendlies. Donnarumma is there together with many kids under 21 who have shown themselves in Italy and Europe
Here are the players called up for Baldini’s young Ital team. There are various things on the table, aspects to try and experiment with, but also objectives to achieve. In fact, what is at stake is not only the valorization of young people who must be ready. There is also the question of the FIFA ranking which is now decisive in the draws. You can no longer make mistakes even in a friendly: neither against Greece nor, four days earlier, against Luxembourg. Double-edged matches: if you win against teams placed worse in the standings, you earn a few points; if you lose, you collapse. Today Italy is in 12th place, who knows after the World Cup.
open to young people
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Italy will be a “mixed” team. Baldini, having received the phone call in April with which Donnarumma proposed himself as captain, decided to take only those of Under 21 age from the national team: Palestra, Esposito and Pisilli. The structure of the team will be made up of many under 21s, especially the young people destined to jump as soon as possible: Kayode, Bartesaghi, Ahanor, Ndour, Casadei, Koleosho. In addition, some “overages” and very young people on the launching pad like the eighteen-year-old Samuele Inacio, son of Inacio Pia, today at Borussia Dortmund and from Under 15 to 19 always blue, although he also has Brazilian nationality.
all those summoned
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Here is the list of those called up.
Goalkeepers: Giovanni Daffara (Avellino), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Manchester City), Lorenzo Palmisani (Frosinone).
Defenders: Honest Ahanor (Atalanta), Davide Bartesaghi (Milan), Fabio Chiarodia (Borussia Monchengladbach), Pietro Comuzzo (Fiorentina), *Costantino Favasuli (Catanzaro), Filippo Mane (Borussia Dortmund), Marco Palestra (Cagliari), Luca Reggiani (Borussia Dortmund).
Midfielders: Matteo Dagasso (Venice), Giacomo Faticanti (Juventus), Luca Lipani (Sassuolo), Cher Ndour (Fiorentina), Niccolò Pisilli (Rome), Lorenzo Venturino (Rome).
Attackers: Francesco Camarda (Lecce), Luigi Cherubini (Sampdoria), Jeff Ekhator (Genoa), Francesco Pio Esposito (Inter), Seydou Fini (Frosinone), Samuele Inacio (Borussia Dortmund), Luca Koleosho (Paris FC).
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