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Tuesday 19 March: Italian National Team to the U.S for friendly games against Venezuela and Ecuador

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🇮🇹👉   The Italian National team departing from Rome to the United States on Tuesday 19 March 2024 ahead of the two friendly games against Venezuela and Ecuador.   The Azzurri will depart from Rome at 10:20 to Miami, Fort Lauderdale. The Azzurri landed in Miami around 18:00 local time, after a 13-hour flight on board the ITA Airways A330neo, which left Rome yesterday morning at 10:20 CET.

Italy Head Coach Luciano Spalletti had a morning training session in Rome at the “Giulio Onesti”.  The team will depart to the United States after training.

Tuesday 19 March 2024 – Italy Team Schedule

  • 10.20 TRANSFER Rome – Miami – Fort Lauderdale
  • 19:15 TRAINING open to the Media complete session FORT LAUDERDALE – “Chase Stadium”

Wednesday 20 March 2024 – Italy Team Schedule

  •  16.00 lt PRESS CONFERENCE MD-1 FORT LAUDERDALE “Chase Stadium”
  • On Thursday 21 March, Italy will play against Venezuela (22:00 CET Italian time, 5:00 PM local time – live on Rai 1) at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, home of Inter Miami.
  • On Sunday 24 March, Italy will play against Ecuador (21:00 CET Italian time, 4:00 PM local time – live on Rai 1) at the Red Bull Arena, in the New York area, in Harrison, New Jersey.

ITA Airways will also accompany the Azzurri for their return to Italy. ITA Airways, the national airline of reference, is in fact inextricably linked to the national football team, of which it has been a partner since September 2022, and to all of Italian sport, with which it shares the honor of being an ambassador in the world of Italian excellence.

ITA Airways will accompany the national team throughout the American tour, strengthening the partnership started in September 2022, which links the Italian airline of reference to the FIGC as the official carrier of all the national football teams (National A, youth, women’s, futsal, beach soccer and export).

As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), at 19:00 local time, head coach Luciano Spalletti led the side’s first session in the States, with a small-sided training game preceded by some light athletic work. There was also a surprise visit from another outstanding athlete who proudly flies the Italian flag around the world: Jannik Sinner.

The Italian team departing to the U.S.A

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

Defenders: Gianluca Mancia (Roma), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Torino), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Giacomo Bonaventura (Fiorentina), Michael Folorunsho (Verona), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Jorginho (Arsenal), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma);

Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Lorenzo Lucca (Udinese), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), Nicolò Zaniolo (Aston Villa).
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First Day Training in the USA at Chase Stadium in Fourt Lauderdale

The Azzurri landed in Miami on Tuesday afternoon, around 6pm, taking the US east coast time zone as reference, after around 13 hours of travel on board the ITA Airways A330neo, which left Rome yesterday morning at 10.20am. The trip was punctuated by the right amount of relaxation in the welcoming Business and Premium areas of the plane, a few films, long chats, the usual photos with the travelers present on the flight, and the usual quality of traditional Italian cuisine.

The slight headwind encountered caused a slight delay in the programme, postponing the start of training at the ‘Chase Stadium’ by around half an hour, where from 7pm coach Luciano Spalletti led the first activity in the States, a small-field practice match preceded by light athletic work. First training session with a surprise visit from another extraordinary athlete who proudly carries the tricolor high around the world: Jannik Sinner.

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Sinner, the world number 3, winner of the Australian Open and on the back of a semi-final defeat to Alcaraz at Indian Wells, has in fact arrived in Miami for the ATP 1000 tournament, which began yesterday and where other Italians are alsoo on the court today (Berrettini, Sonego , Arnaldi, Vavassori, Cobolli; Giorgi).

Welcomed by FIGC president Gabriele Gravina, head coach Spalletti and the head of delegation Gigi Buffon, and welcomed by a round of applause by the Azzurri staff and players, Sinner stopped for a long time at the stadium to chat with several players. Commitments permitting, he will return to cheering for Italy also on Thursday for the friendly with Venezuela.

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Monday 18 March: Italy Team starts training in Rome preparing for Venezuela and Ecuador

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🇮🇹👉   The Italian National team started their first training on Monday 18 March 2024 ahead of the two friendly games against Venezuela and Ecuador. The training on the field of the ‘Giulio Onesti’ Olympic Preparation Center of Acqua Acetosa dedicated to Gianluca Vialli and the words of the coach Luciano Spalletti brought forward the departure for the USA.

Monday 18 March 2024 – Italy Team Schedule

  • 16.00 TRAINING open to the Media complete session at ROME CPO “Onesti” / Campo “G. Vialli”
  • 17:45 PRESS CONFERENCE: Italy Head Coach Luciano Spalletti, CPO “Giulio Onesti”

During the press conference, Italy Head Coach Luciano Spalletti commented, “We are going to receive the affection of our compatriots to whom we owe so many things. They are over there working and they have opened up new frontiers and new knowledge for us. They will be two matches that will allow us to organize something from the tactical. Will we find Chiellini and Cannavaro in America? We will remove some pieces and if possible we will insert them into some of our players, as is done with a graft in the countryside…”.

As for Francesco Acerbi  leaving the team, Spalletti commented,   “My thoughts are contained in the statement .  I would never want to find myself in this position, but we have the responsibility for what is a very important sport and for what our nation is. From what he told me Francesco, however, is not an episode of racism, so we must be careful even when we go to report an episode of this kind. We saw Francesco in difficulty and we regret from a human point of view having made these decisions, but we must stay pay attention to our behavior.”

Related post: Monday 18 March: Francesco Acerbi leaves the Azzurri camp and is replaced by Gianluca Mancini

Other focuses on individuals, starting with a rediscovered Lorenzo Pellegrini:  Spalletti added, “We’ve waited a long time for him, I’ve never had him available. He’s a footballer whose level is easy to evaluate: he knows how to do more things. I don’t know what will come out, but he is one of those you can count on. He had problems, he put them right: with the quality that Daniele De Rossi wants in Roma he expresses himself at ease.” De Rossi, whose work Spalletti is greatly appreciating: “I have taken a lot of what he has done in this period. He seems a bit like Carletto Mazzone to me, when he expresses being part footballer and part coach. He is doing a exceptional work and it wasn’t easy in such a short time. I wish the best possible to those who made everything they had available to me.” Among the protagonists of De Rossi’s Roma, also Gianluca Mancini, called in place of Acerbi: “He plays inside, he fits in, I see him building and then I find him in the opponent’s area. The fact that I hadn’t called him is not a failure not even for him, but because I know very well what players like Mancini, Politano and El Shaarawy, to give other examples, can give.”

Spalletti declared that in the United States, there might be a possible three-man defense tests: “But I think that football is a fluid thing, not rigid. You can move from one system to another, I want to evaluate this 3-4-2-1, it will depend on the characteristics of those who play. We have the possibility, by changing something, to be more surprising. A game system that can enhance players like Chiesa (“Man jumps, he knows how to score goals, he can pass into situations in which others see insurmountable walls”) or like Frattesi (“For what, intensity and quality he is someone who knows how to attack the defensive line like few others”).

Italy has called up 28 players for the international friendly games against Venezuela and Ecuador.

  • On Thursday 21 March, Italy will play against Venezuela (22:00 CET Italian time, 5:00 PM local time – live on Rai 1) at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, home of Inter Miami.
  • On Sunday 24 March, Italy will play against Ecuador (21:00 CET Italian time, 4:00 PM local time – live on Rai 1) at the Red Bull Arena, in the New York area, in Harrison, New Jersey.
🏆👉   Italy SQUAD LIST

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

Defenders: Gianluca Mancia (Roma), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Torino), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Giacomo Bonaventura (Fiorentina), Michael Folorunsho (Verona), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Jorginho (Arsenal), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma);

Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Lorenzo Lucca (Udinese), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), Nicolò Zaniolo (Aston Villa).
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The Italian National Team arriving in Rome for training

Luciano Spalletti’s Press Conference

Former Italy and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon

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