With the BVB talents Samuele Inácio, Luca Reggiani and Filippo Mane as well as Fabio Chiarodia from Borussia Mönchengladbach, four Bundesliga talents are in the squad of Italy’s national football team for the first time.
Interim coach Silvio Baldini’s Squadra Azzurra, which failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in a row, will play test matches at the end of the season in Luxembourg (June 3) and on Crete against Greece (June 7) – with a promising team.
Of the 24 players, only goalkeeper and captain Gianluigi Donnarumma from Manchester City as well as Pietro Comuzzo, Marco Palestra, Niccolò Pisilli and Francesco Pio Esposito are already part of the senior national team. Baldini “decided to focus on some promising young players,” the FIGC wrote. According to the association’s statement, the average age is 20 years and six months.
Inácio (18), Reggiani (18), Mane (21) and Chiarodia (20) had previously played for Italy’s U-teams; top talent Inácio has both Italian and Brazilian citizenship.
The German U21 national striker Nicoló Tresoldi, who was born in Cagliari, Italy and was not named in the DFB squad for the World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada by national coach Julian Nagelsmann, is not in the Italians’ rejuvenated squad. The 21-year-old has not yet finally decided on a association.
