Sandro Tonali was summoned to the National team in place of the injured Domenico Berardi (photo Ansa)
ROME – Roberto Mancini confirmed Sandro Tonali in the National team for the races in Bosnia (Zenica, 15 November) and with Armenia (Palermo, 18 November). Mancini called him after the injury suffered by Domenico Berardi. The Brescia midfielder, considered the heir to Andrea Pirlo due to the physical and technical similarity with the former director of Juventus and Milan, has already made his debut in the national team and could come back on the pitch with the Azzurri in the last two matches of qualifications that are little more than friendly as Mancini's boys have already qualified for Euro 2020 with two rounds of advance.
National, here are the players called by Mancini for the next two games.
Here is the complete list of players called up by Roberto Mancini for the next matches of the Italian National Football Team.
Goalkeepers : Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta), Alex Meret (Naples), Salvatore Sirigu (Turin);
Defenders : Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Cristiano Biraghi (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Andrea Cistana (Brescia), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Naples), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Alessandro Florenzi (As Roma), Armando Izzo (Turin ), Gianluca Mancini (Rome), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan), Leonardo Spinazzola (Rome).
Midfielders : Nicolò Barella (Inter), Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina), Frello Filho Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Chelsea), Rolando Mandragora (Udinese), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain). Nicolò Zaniolo (Rome), Sandro Tonali (Brescia).
Forwards : Andrea Belotti (Turin), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenhua), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Naples), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna).
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Source: Blitz Quotidiano