U17 World Cup: Samuele Inacio scores again for Italy | OneFootball

The Italian U17 national team completed the preliminary round at the World Cup in Qatar with their third victory in the third match, thus emerging as the dominant winner of Group A. In the final group match, the Squadra Azzurra defeated South Africa 3-1. Once again, Samuele Inacio from Borussia Dortmund's U19 team played a decisive role.

While BVB colleague Luca Reggiani made his World Cup debut against South Africa and played in central defense for the full 90 minutes, Inacio was once again the standout player on the field and received the Man of the Match award for the third time in this tournament.

Italian Double Strike Shortly After the Break

After scoring the winning goal in the opening victory against Qatar (1-0) and contributing a goal and two assists in the 4-0 win over Bolivia, Inacio put Italy ahead against South Africa in the fourth minute with an assist from Valerio Maccaroni. Although South Africa equalized in the 32nd minute through Shaun Els to make it 1-1, the Italian team secured their third World Cup victory after the break.

In the 55th minute, it was Antonio Arena who scored the 2-1 goal, again assisted by Maccaroni, and just three minutes later, Inacio was on hand with his fourth tournament goal and his 13th goal in his 15th U17 international match to seal the 3-1 final score.

Together with Belgian Rene Mitongo and Czech Vit Skrkon, Inacio leads the World Cup's scoring chart and will have at least one more opportunity to increase his tally in the round of 16.

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