ROME. Twenty-two of the twenty-six European champions, plus Lorenzo Pellegrini. The injured Belotti and Florenzi remain at home, as well as – with respect to Euro 2020 – Spinazzola, as well as Castrovilli. After the triumph at Wembley, the national team is hunting for another trophy. Next week Italy will host the final phase of the Nations League, the Uefa tournament now in its second edition which will have its epilogue in Milan and Turin. Wednesday 6 October (8.45 pm, live on Rai 1) Italy and Spain will face each other in a semi-final which is the replay of the Euro 2020 one, while on Thursday 7 October at the Juventus Stadium in Turin the reigning world champions of France will see it in the second semifinal with Belgium, number one in the Fifa Ranking.
The Nations League, won in the first edition by Portugal, will then be awarded on Sunday evening in Milan, after Turin has hosted the final for third place in the afternoon. Meanwhile, the expectation for the match against the Spaniards is growing: 22,000 tickets have already been sold (capacity is 50%, 37,000 spectators) and Monday, the last day to buy tickets, could be sold out. Meanwhile, the coach Roberto Mancini has made official this evening the 23 called up for the final phase of the tournament: in the list there are 22 of the 26 blue champions of Europe, to which is added the Roma midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini, who had to give up the European Championships due to injury. Until the start of the first match (Italy-Spain) it will be possible to replace an unlimited number of players in the list in the event of an injury or positive Covid. The National team will meet on Sunday evening at the Suning Center in Appiano Gentile and will remain in Milan until the match against Spain to move overnight to the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano from where, based on the result of the semifinal, it will then head towards the venue. on Sunday 10 October.
These are the blue squads: – goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Naples), Salvatore Sirigu (Genoa); – defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Naples), Emerson Palmieri (Lyon), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta); – midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Rome), Jorginho (Chelsea), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Rome), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain); – forwards: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Naples), Giacomo Raspadori (Sassuolo).