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Italy Head Coach Luciano Spalletti reported that Inter defender Francesco Acerbi was forced to withdraw from the UEFA Euro 2024 training preparation due to a groin issue. Spalletti has Juventus defender Federico Gatti on standby, who has made himself available and will immediately start working at his own headquarters

Spalletti has called up 30 provisional players for this initial training camp.   The team will meet up at the Federal Technical Centre in Coverciano on Friday 31 May to begin preparations for UEFA EURO 2024.

Spalletti will announce his final squad for the tournament on Thursday 6 June.

As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), before leaving for Germany, scheduled for Monday 10 June, the national team will play two friendlies: on Tuesday 4 June against Türkiye (21:00 CEST at the stadio Renato Dall’Ara in Bologna) and Sunday 9 June against Bosnia and Herzegovina (20:45 CEST at the stadio Carlo Castellani in Empoli). Following the game with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy will travel to Germany, where they will hold the last training sessions in Iserlohn before their opener against Albania, scheduled for Saturday 15 June in Dortmund.
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Italy SQUAD LIST (updated Thursday 30 May)

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Ivan Provedel (Lazio), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);

Defenders: Federico Gatti (Juventus), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Torino), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolò Fagioli (Juventus), Michael Folorunsho (Hellas Verona), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Jorginho (Arsenal), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Samuele Ricci (Torino);

Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).

Francesco Acerbi won’t be joining up with the #Azzurri squad tomorrow. Federico Gatti is on standby ℹ️#VivoAzzurro pic.twitter.com/6DjtY2PoUy

— Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Azzurri_En) May 30, 2024