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After three days of hard work, the training camp held at Coverciano for Italy National team hopefuls comes to an end

Italian National Team

Thursday 26 May 2022

Three days have been spent in Coverciano assessing two groups and 52 lads on the pitch: with a training match this morning, the camp held at the Federal Technical Centre came to an end.

After yesterday afternoon’s training session, the second group concluded their time at the camp with an in-house match (30 minutes each half) on the ‘Enzo Bearzot’ pitch at Coverciano.

The game ended 2-2, with all goals coming in the second half. Oristanio, with an accurate effort with his left foot, broke the deadlock shortly after the restart, before his team’s lead was overturned by Zerbin (scoring with a good individual effort) and Cancellieri (on hand to finish off a sharp counter-attacking move). At 1-1, Plizzari had saved a penalty, but he could do nothing to stop Nasti’s shot in the dying seconds of the match as the game finished 2-2.

After three days of hard work, the training camp held at Coverciano for national team hopefuls comes to an end

Squad list

Group 1

Ibrahima Kader Ariel Bamba (Vitoria Guimaraes)**
Raoul Bellanova (Cagliari)*
Nicolò Cambiaghi (Pordenone)
Marco Carnesecchi (Cremonese)
Nicolò Casale (Verona)
Giuseppe Caso (Cosenza)
Alessandro Cortinovis (Reggina)
Sebastiano Esposito (FC Basel)
Matteo Gabbia (Milan)*
Federico Gatti (Frosinone)
Matteo Lovato (Cagliari)*
Daniel Maldini (Milan)
Filippo Melegoni (Genoa)
Fabiano Parisi (Empoli)
Edoardo Pierozzi (Alessandria)
Giacomo Quagliata (Heracles Almelo)
Filippo Ranocchia (Vicenza)
Samuele Ricci (Torino)
Nicolò Rovella (Genoa)
Eddie Anthony Salcedo (Spezia)
Riccardo Sottil (Fiorentina)*
Stefano Turati (Reggina)
Destiny Iyenoma Udogie (Udinese)*
Guglielmo Vicario (Empoli)
Emanuel Vignato (Bologna)
Mattia Viti (Empoli)
Kelvin Yeboah (Genoa)
Alessio Zerbin (Frosinone)**
Nadir Zortea (Salernitana)

Group 2

Tommaso Baldanzi (Empoli)
Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino)
Riccardo Calafiori (Genoa)
Andrea Cambiaso (Genoa)
Matteo Cancellieri (Verona)
Lorenzo Colombo (Spal)
Diego Coppola (Verona)
Christian Dalle Mura (Pordenone)
Sebastiano Desplanches (Milan)
Salvatore Esposito (Spal)
Nicolò Fagioli (Cremonese)
Gianluca Gaetano (Cremonese)
Wilfried Gnonto (FC Zürich)
Jean Freddi Pascal Greco (Vicenza)
Tommaso Mancini (Vicenza)
Tommaso Milanese (Alessandria)
Fabio Miretti (Juventus)
Marco Nasti (Milan)
Caleb Okoli (Cremonese)
Gaetano Oristanio (Volendam)
Simone Pafundi (Udinese)
Pietro Pellegri (Torino)*
Roberto Piccoli (Genoa)
Alessandro Plizzari (Lecce)
Matteo Ruggeri (Salernitana)
Alessandro Sorrentino (Pescara)
Franco Tongya (Olympique de Marseille)
Alessandro Zanoli (Napoli)

*They left the meeting early by returning to their home club

**They stayed to continue their training with the second group