Luca Pellegrini wearing the shirt of the Italian national football team (photo Ansa)
ROME – Roberto Mancini has dissolved his last doubts and has summoned the players in view of the upcoming qualifying matches at the European football championships against Armenia and Finland. The Italian coach has points Zaniolo and Kean, for their behavior during the last European under 21, sending them with the azzurrini of the new coach Nicolato.
The Italian coach wanted to confirm the players who did well in the last blue cycle, including the "Chinese" Stephan El Shaarawy. The only novelty in the convocations of Roberto Mancini for the next matches of the Italian national football team is Luca Pellegrini, a young fullback who passed from Roma to Juventus this summer before finishing loan again at Cagliari.
In Sardinia, he had already played last year, on loan from Roma, and had impressed with some very high level performances. This is the list of the 26 Azzurri for matches against Armenia (5 September) and Finland (8 September):
National, the summoned.
Goalkeepers.
Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta), Alex Meret (Naples), Salvatore Sirigu (Turin);
National, the defenders.
Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Mattia De Sciglio (Juventus), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Alessandro Florenzi (Rome), Armando Izzo (Turin), Gianluca Mancini (Rome), Luca Pellegrini (Cagliari), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan)
Midfielders.
Nicolo 'Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Rome), Frello Filho Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Chelsea), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Rome), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain)
Forwards.
Andrea Belotti (Turin), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenhua), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Naples), Kevin Lasagna (Udinese).
The blue group will meet in Casteldebole by 12 noon next Monday: in the afternoon the coach's press conference, followed by the first training session. The national team, which leads its qualifying round to Euro 2020, will leave for Yerevan on Wednesday 4 September, to then move to Tampere the day after the race with Armenia.
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