🚨 Italy squad: Chiesa out ❌, Leoni & Pio in, Locatelli returns 🔙 | OneFootball

The new head coach of the Italian National Team, Gennaro Gattuso, has released his first official list of call-ups.

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We remind you that the Azzurri will be engaged in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers: Friday, September 5, in Bergamo, against Estonia; Monday the 8th, on the neutral field of Debrecen in Hungary, against Israel.

📑 Italy, the call-ups by Coach Gattuso

Locatelli returns to wear the Italy jersey and in Gattuso's list of 28 call-ups, there is also room for the young 2006-born Leoni - who moved to Liverpool in the summer. Another player could have joined from the Reds, but that was not the case: Federico Chiesa is still absent.

Goalkeepers: Marco Carnesecchi (Atalanta), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);

Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Atalanta), Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Giovanni Leoni (Liverpool), Gianluca Mancini (Roma);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Giovanni Fabbian (Bologna), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Nicolò Rovella (Lazio), Sandro Tonali (Newcastle);

Forwards: Francesco Pio Esposito (Inter), Moise Kean (Fiorentina), Daniel Maldini (Atalanta), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Matteo Politano (Napoli), Giacomo Raspadori (Atletico Madrid), Mateo Retegui (Al-Qadsiah), Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).

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