A month after the clear successes (5-1 and 6-0) in the two friendlies against Albania, the Under 16 national team 'raises the bar' by hosting Germany in a double challenge scheduled for Friday 24 March (3pm, live streaming on the FIGC website) at the Federal Technical Center of Coverciano and on Monday 27 March (11 am) at the Tirrenia Olympic Training Centre. Two probative tests to evaluate the growth of the Azzurrini, who in the first part of the season have already managed to beat opponents of the caliber of England, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. For the two matches against the Germans of the same age, coach Daniele Zoratto has summoned 22 players born in 2007, who will meet on Wednesday 22 March at the CPO in Tirrenia to take part in the first training session in the afternoon. The list of summoned Goalkeepers: Massimo Pessina (Bologna), Tommaso Vannucchi (Fiorentina); Defenders: Federico Colombo (Milan), Mattia Cappelletti (Milan), Giorgio Vezzosi (Sassuolo), Nicolas Trabucchi (Parma), Christian Garofalo (Naples), Manuel Maffessoli (Atalanta), Christian Cama (Roma), Gianluca Maggiore (Atalanta); Midfielders: Niccolò Gariani (Atalanta), Giacomo Arduini (Roma), Ernesto Perin (Milan), Alessandro Di Nunzio (Roma), Matias Mancuso (Inter), Diego Pisani (Fiorentina), Elia Plicco (Parma), Alessandro Olivieri (Empoli) ; Forwards: Mattia Mosconi (Inter), Francesco Castaldo (Bologna), Stefano Maiorana (Fiorentina), Andrea Orlandi (Empoli).
The Under 18 national team is ready to return to the field for a double friendly match against Romania of the same age group. Appointment Thursday 23 March at the 'Alfredo Viviani' stadium in Potenza and Sunday 26 at the 'Donato Curcio' stadium in Picerno. Both matches will start at 10.30 and will be streamed live on the FIGC website. After Italy's Under-18 team was the first national team to wear the new adidas jerseys in the January match against Spain in Coverciano, coach Daniele Franceschini called up 23 Azzurrini players, 20 of whom were born in 2005, three (Bakoune, Cissé and Fini ) born in 2006, who will meet on the evening of Sunday 19 in Salerno and the following day will move to Basilicata, a region where a national team will return to play nine years after the friendly lost by the Under 21 team in 2014 in Matera against Denmark. If it will be the first time for Picerno, the Italy Under 18 team already played in Potenza in 1993 against Hungary (losing 2-0): in that team, also a very young Alessandro Del Piero. The list of summoned Goalkeepers: Federico Magro (Lazio), Francesco Di Bartolo Zuccarello (Udinese); Defenders: Adam Bakoune (Milan), Pietro Comuzzo (Fiorentina), Luigi D'Avino (Napoli), Saer Diop (Bologna), Alessandro Milani (Lazio), Marco Palestra (Atalanta), Lorenzo Romani (Fiorentina), Filippo Saiani (Spal ); Midfielders: Leonardo Bovo (Inter), Kevin Bruno (Sassuolo), Aaron Ciammaglichella (Turin), Luca Di Maggio (Inter), Vincenzo Onofrietti Teixeira (Borussia Dortmund), Fabio Parravicini (Spal), Daniele Quieto (Inter), Manuel Rosetti ( Bologna); Forwards: Alessandro Bolzan (Roma), Alphadjo Cissé (Hellas Verona), Nicolò Franzoni (Spal), Seydou Fini (Genoa), Matteo Mazzone (Wolfsburg).
The list of players who will take part in the second qualifying phase of the Under-19 European Championship scheduled in Bremen from 22 to 28 March was made official today by the FIGC. There are 20 Azzurrini called up by Alberto Bollini, all born in 2004 except Filippo Calixte Mane, defender of Borussia Dortmund, Luca Lipani, midfielder of Genoa and Francesco Esposito of Inter, born in 2005. In the group, three boys are employed by foreign clubs : Fabio Christian Chiarodia, who will play at home as he plays for Werder Bremen and Filippo Calixte Mane, born in Magenta, of Senegalese origins, plays in Germany but for Borussia Dortmund: both central defenders and protagonists last year in Tel Aviv in the final phase of the Under 17 European Championship with Bernardo Corradi. The last of the three is Warrick Daeovie Koleosho, of Nigerian origins, Italian on his mother's side, striker for Espanyol in Barcelona. The appointment for the Azzurra delegation is set for Sunday evening (March 12) at the 'Giulio Onesti' Olympic Training Center at Acquacetosa in Rome. The next day, from Fiumicino, the Azzurro group will take the flight to Bremen, home of this elite phase. Italy is included in group 2 together with the hosts Germany, Slovenia and Belgium, a decidedly difficult group that Bollini's boys will be forced to overcome by finishing first to access the final stages of the continental event scheduled in Malta from 3 to 16 July. The opening match will be against the Germans on 22 March (live streaming on the FIGC website from 12 noon; there will be no others), followed by the match against Slovenia on 25 March and the final match against Belgium on 28 March: the three meetings scheduled at 12. Italy arrives at this appointment after having finished the first round at the top of group 5 on equal points (6) with Poland and Estonia but, by virtue of the separate classification, resulted in third place and subsequently recovered as the best third place in the overall 13 groups . Call-up list Goalkeepers: Davide Mastrantonio (Triestina), Lorenzo Palmisani (Frosinone); Defenders: Fabio Christian Chiarodia (Werder Bremen), Lorenzo Dellavalle (Juventus), Michael Olabode Ayode (Fiorentina), Filippo Calixte Mane (Borussia Dortmund), Filippo Missori (Roma), Iacopo Regonesi (Atalanta), Riccardo Stivanello (Bologna); Midfielders: Lorenzo Amatucci (Fiorentina), Giacomo Faticanti (Roma), Justin Kumi (Sassuolo), Luca Lipani (Genoa), Niccolò Pisilli (Roma); Forwards: Luca D'andrea (Sassuolo), Francesco Esposito (Inter), Luis Hasa (Juventus), Luca Warrick Daeovie Koleosho (Espanyol), Antonio Raimondo (Bologna), Samuele Vignato (Monza).
Under 21 Defence and Midfield both strong. Hopefully Mulattieri or Colombo can catch some sort of fire.
Waiting to know the group opponents of the final phase of the World Cup scheduled in Indonesia - the draw is scheduled for March 31st -, the Under 20 national team is preparing for the first official matches of 2023. Thursday March 23rd at 6 pm in Stavanger against Norway and on Monday 27th at 3 pm at the 'Lungobisenzio' stadium in Prato (live streaming on figc.it) against Germany, the Azzurrini led by Carmine Nunziata will play the last two matches of the 8 Nations tournament. After the defeat that came last June in the opening match against Poland, Italy won the next three matches all by the same score (2-1) against Portugal, Romania and the Czech Republic. For the two matches against the Norwegians and Germans of the same age, Nunziata has called up 23 players, of which 21 born in 2003 and two (Guarino and Ndour) born in 2004: first ever call-up to the national team for Milan defender Andrei Coubis and for the midfielders Matteo Prati (Spal) and Flavio Paoletti (Sampdoria); first call-up in Under 20, instead, for Federico Zuccon (Lecco). The Under 20 national team will meet on the evening of Sunday 19 March in a hotel in Grassobbio (Bergamo), they will train on Monday and Tuesday at the Albinoleffe Stadium and on Tuesday afternoon they will leave for Norway. The list of summoned Goalkeepers: Jacopo Sassi (Giugliano), Gioele Zacchi (Sassuolo); Defenders: Andrei Coubis (Milan), Filippo Fiumanò (Aquila Montevarchi), Alessandro Fontanarosa (Inter), Daniele Ghilardi (Mantova), Gabriele Guarino (Empoli), Edoardo Pieragnolo (Sassuolo), Filippo Terracciano (Verona), Mattia Zanotti (Inter) ; Midfielders: Claudio Cassano (Roma), Duccio Degli Innocenti (Empoli), Jacopo Fazzini (Empoli), Samuel Giovane (Ascoli), Cher Ndour (Benfica), Flavio Paoletti (Sampdoria), Matteo Prati (Spal), Luciano Valente (Groningen) , Federico Zuccon (Lecco); Forwards: Giuseppe Ambrosino di Bruttopilo (Cittadella), Marco Nasti (Cosenza), Antonio Satriano (Almelo), Cristian Volpato (Roma).
Germany-Italy U19 livestream (1 Euro U19 Elite stage match) ITALIA U19 (4-3-3) : Mastrantonio; Kayode, Stivanello, Mane, Regonesi; Pisilli, Faticanti (C), Lipani; D'Andrea, Esposito, Hasa. A disp.: Palmisani (GK), Missori, Chiarodia, Kumi, Vignato, Amatucci, Raimondo, Koleosho. Kaleosho is on the bench due to a slight injury
2-3 Italy win. Nice game. Pisilli man of the match. I was unaware of him before but he was by far Italy’s best. D’Andrea was a menace for most of the 1st half. Kayode was also solid Interesting that the Germans subbed in an Italian Nicolo Tresoldi. Born and raised in Italy and played for Gubbio at youth level. Moved to Germany for his mothers work career and ended up getting poached by the German national team. This is great right!?
i think that would be more like a Joao Pedro type of poach. At least Volpato, Retegui, etc have italian blood in them.
Belgium 0-0 Slovenia in the other game on MD1, so a win against Slovenia on Saturday will qualify Italy for the finals in Malta in July if Belgium do not beat Germany.
ITALIA U18 (4-3-1-2) : Magro; Bakoune, Comuzzo, Diop, Milani; Ciammaglichella, Bovo, Di Maggio (C), Onofrietti; Bruno; Fini, Bolzan. A disp.: D'Avino, Rosetti, Mazzone, Di Bartolo Zuccarello (GK), Parravicini, Romani, Saiani, Casali, Quieto, Franzoni, Cissé.
Italy-Germany U16 int. Friendly (match start at 3.00 pm CET) ITALIA U16 (4-3-1-2) : Vannucchi; Colombo, Vezzosi, Garofalo, Cama; Pisani, Gariani (C), Di Nunzio; Olivieri; Castaldo, Mosconi. A disp.: Pessina (GK), Cappelletti, Trabucchi, Maffessoli, Maggiore, Arduini, Perin, Mancuso, Plicco, Maiorana, Orlandi.
ITALIA U21 (3-5-2) : Caprile; Viti, Mulattieri, Esposito Sa. (C), Casadei, Zapelli, Ruggeri, Baldanzi, Gallo, Carboni, Pierozzi. A disp.: Sorrentino (GK), Turati (GK), Bellanova, Parisi, Pirola, Lovato, Ricci, Colombo, Cancellieri, Udogie, Fabbian, Okoli, Bove, Oristanio, Fagioli, Zanoli.