The squad of Italy: Mancini still leaves Balotelli at home, three new ones

ROME – The next commitments of the Italian national team they will also see new faces, as usual in management Roberto Mancini and a great absent usually: Mario Balotelli he still stays at home. Especially now, after having won the qualification ad Euro 2020 with three rounds of advance, the coach wants some news and calls for the first time the defender Andrea Cistana of the Brescia, the midfielder Gaetano Castrovilli of the Fiorentina and the attacker Riccardo Orsolini of the Bologna, the latter already convened for the stage of last April by coach Mancini. Despite the qualification already in his pocket, therefore, Balotelli he is not yet ready for Italy and he will talk about it again in March. THE'Italy returns to the field for the last two qualifying matches: on the ninth and tenth day of the round J, the National team will face the Bosnia Herzegovina (Friday 15 November at the 'Bilino Poje' stadium in Zenica, 8.45 pm) and theArmenia (Monday 18 November at the 'Renzo Barbera' Stadium of Palermo, 8.45 pm). For the occasion, Mancini has summoned 29 players, who will meet on November 11th at the Coverciano Federal Technical Center: first call for the Brescia Cistana defender and Fiorentina midfielder Castrovilli. The Udinese midfielder also returned to the national team Rolando Mandragora and the Sassuolo striker Domenico Berardi, absent respectively from June and November 2018. It will make its debut as Gianluca Vialli Head of Delegation.

Mancini's list of called up

The complete list of 29 players called by the coach for the next two Qualifying races.

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 (Rome), 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);

Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Turin), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenhua), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Naples), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna).