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      Poland – Italy

UEFA announcing the match officials for the game Poland vs Italy for the Nations League, Matchday 3, on Sunday 11 October 2020 at the ENERGA Gdańsk in Gdansk, Poland at 20:45.  It is Referee José María Sánchez from Spain to direct the game.

Referee Sánchez will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Iñigo Prieto Lopez (ESP) and
Assistant Referee 2: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP).  The Fourth Official will be Juan Martinez Munuera (ESP).  The Referee Observer will be Kyros Vassaras (GRE)

👉  POLAND VS. ITALY.  The two nations have met 16 times: Azzurri are in the lead (6 eind, 7 draws and 3 defeats) and it is even away from home (2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats). The last meeting was in the Nations League; a Biraghi goal secured victory for the Azzurri in Chorzow. Italy have only played once in Gdansk: at the 2012 Euros, which they drew 1-1 with Spain in the groups.

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⚽️   UEFA Nations League: Result ITALY 1 – 1 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, Friday 4 September 2020

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👉 The squad  – Italy National Team

Goalkeepers: Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Marco Silvestri (Hellas Verona), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);

Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), *Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), *Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Danilo D’Ambrosio (Inter), Emerson Palmieri Dos Santos (Chelsea), Alessandro Florenzi (Paris Saint Germain), Manuel Lazzari (Lazio), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Angelo Obinze Ogbonna (West Ham United), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Giacomo Bonaventura (Fiorentina), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Jorginho (Chelsea), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain);

Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenua), Vincenzo Grifo (Friburgo), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Moise Kean (Everton), Kevin Lasagna (Udinese), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna).

Eyeing up our #NationsLeague fixure against Poland 👀🔜#Azzurri #VivoAzzurro pic.twitter.com/ZxflRU5lm0

— Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Azzurri_En) October 9, 2020

UEFA Nations League
Group stage – League A – Group 1

Poland – Italy
Sunday 11 October 2020
ENERGA Gdańsk
Gdansk, Poland

20:45.

Referee: José María Sánchez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Iñigo Prieto Lopez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP)
Fourth Official: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Referee Observer: Kyros Vassaras (GRE)

In Gdansk, Dr Ferretti will celebrate his 200th game with the Azzuri: “An amazing adventure”

Marking 200 games with the National team is something that not everyone is able to celebrate. Whilst amongst players, Gigi Buffon holds the record for the most appearances with the Azzuri, currently standing at 176, Professor Andrea Ferretti will reach a prestigious milestone of 200 games working alongside the National team at Sunday’s game in Gdansk. Born in Florence in 1951, the current head of the FIGC Medical Group joined the National Team in 1990 after having been the doctor for the Italian National Basketball and Volleyball teams. It was also within the world of volleyball that he enjoyed life as a player, winning the Scudetto in 1975 with Ariccia, a title win that happened again two years later, but this time with him as coach of the Federlazio group: “When president Matarrese and secretary general Petrucci called me, whilst I was a traumatologist, requesting I accompanied Professor Vecchiet on the Italian National team bench for the 1990 World Cup,” he recalls, “I would never have imagined that what should have been a brief and short cameo would be the start of a very long and important experience, that would have such a strong influence all of my professional career.”

#Azzurri 🇮🇹

In Gdansk, Dr #Ferretti will celebrate his 200th game with the Azzuri: “An amazing adventure”.

The article 👉 https://t.co/kl05Ms9fXY

Italy National team medic at Italia ‘90, he’s worked with some of our greatest champions.#VivoAzzurro pic.twitter.com/MlniHV8sD5

— Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@azzurri) October 9, 2020

The leading professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Director of the School of Specialist Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome, as well as Director of the Department of Emergencies and of the Orthopaedic Operative Unit and Traumatology at the S. Andrea hospital in Rome, Ferretti is the author of over 250 of the most prestigious publications on orthopaedics, traumatology and of scientific presentations on research performed within the sector. “The feeling I had at the start,” he underlines,” and the one I still get today every time I sit on that bench is one of great responsibility. As a surgeon, I’m used to taking on important responsibilities every day, but in my case as a National team medic, it creates an entirely different context, in which one not only treats the athletes and their entourage as patients, but is also relied upon by millions and millions of fans and spectators that follow the results of the Azzuri with passion.”

The decisions for so many surgical interventions are made often to preserve the careers of those champions that formed the history of the National team: “Over the course of 30 years of involvement with the FIGC, of which much came from the bench, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know so many coaches and hundreds of players. From each one I’ve learnt something that enriched my knowledge, and to them I tried to impart some of my traumatology and medical sports knowledge. Of course, having been an athlete at a high level (although in a different discipline) and having suffered from serious injury issues, this has developed my understanding in treating the most serious injuries I’ve dealt with over the course of my years with the National team: I can recall the times dealing with the injuries of Baresi at the 1990 World Cup, the same Baresi and also Baggio in the USA in 1994, Nesta in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, Materazzi in Hungary in 2007 and the two terrible injuries suffered by Conte and Perugia at the European Championship in 2000. I can’t forget Cannavaro and Barzagli’s calf and knee surgeries that I organised and carried out in Vienna during the European Championships at the wishes of Real Madrid and Wolfsburg. But the cases that seem the most serious are often not; rather, the pitfalls come via the injuries that initially appear to be the mildest, ones that can get worse throughout the course of the match if prolonged, and can require a long time spent in recuperation in order to get back to full physical health. It’s to these ones that we need to pay extra attention, without neglecting anyone in particular

“Another form of help,” he adds, “came to me from my role as a university professor; I am always in constant contact with young people, students and specialists, and it is from them that I always receive new stimulus to improve progress and research. Research has always been my thing, and I haven’t stopped practising it in the National team; I’m always searching to use each opportunity to deepen clinical understanding or to bring about the possibility of international cooperation. Of course, it isn’t easy to consolidate the role as a medic in the National team with the responsibility of helping first and then directing a department of a large University Hospital. If there’s success, overall it’s down to the constant help and support from my family and from my wife in particular, who has always accepted my choices at the cost of undertaking family and life duties and my son’s education. This is something I’ll never finish thanking her for.”

The handing out of thanks did not stop there: “Now, I’m approached 200 games on the sideline, the only FIGC doctor to ever reach this milestone. I feel an obligation to thank all those, who showed their support for me in this role and who have helped me in my work. I think about the presidents and commissioners, coaches, secretaries, physios, fellow doctors I’ve had at my side on this magnificent adventure. As a young doctor and a fan, and a long-time sportsman, I never thought I’d have lived this out.”

Source:  figc.it

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Poland – Italy

Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini and the team are optimistic ahead of the Nations League game Poland vs Italy, Matchday 3, on Sunday 11 October 2020 at the ENERGA Gdańsk in Gdansk, Poland at 20:45.   The Italian team departed from Venice on Saturday 10 October  to Gdansk.

👉 11:00 CEST – POLAND training (open for the first 15 mins) at the Energa Arena in Gdansk

👉 13:15 CEST – POLAND press conference at the Energa Arena in Gdansk

👉 17:30 – ITALY press conference at the Energa Arena in Gdansk

👉 18:00 CEST – ITALY training (open for the first 15 mins) at the Energa Arena in Gdansk

#Azzurri 🇮🇹

Hello from Gdansk 👋🇵🇱#VivoAzzurro #POLITA pic.twitter.com/ve6sNkwPn6

— Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Azzurri_En) October 10, 2020

👉 POLAND VS. ITALY. The two nations have met 16 times: Azzurri are in the lead (6 eind, 7 draws and 3 defeats) and it is even away from home (2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats). The last meeting was in the Nations League; a Biraghi goal secured victory for the Azzurri in Chorzow. Italy have only played once in Gdansk: at the 2012 Euros, which they drew 1-1 with Spain in the groups.

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 UEFA Nations League
Group stage – League A – Group 1

Poland – Italy
Sunday 11 October 2020
ENERGA Gdańsk
Gdansk, Poland

20:45.

Referee: José María Sánchez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Iñigo Prieto Lopez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP)
Fourth Official: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Referee Observer: Kyros Vassaras (GRE)

The Azzurri have won 15, drawn five and lost just twice under Mancini, who is yet to taste defeat at home

Thursday, October 8, 2020, via figc.it

The stats relating to Roberto Mancini’s National Team are certainly very impressive, with Italy having rekindled enthusiasm thanks to their record-breaking achievements. Yesterday’s friendly against Moldova saw 3.7 million television viewers tune in (a 15% share). They got to enjoy six Azzurri goals from a side that is increasingly being built and performing in its Head Coach’s image.

Mancini has the best record out of any Italy Head Coach in the past 50 years after 22 matches (15 wins, five draws and two defeats): converted into points, the Azzurri have picked up 50 under his watch, three more than the total that Sacchi and Vicini managed to achieve after the same number of games played. Mancini’s team are undefeated in eleven home fixtures (six wins and five draws, 31 goals scored and six conceded), while the win against Moldova saw the Azzurri stretch their unbeaten run to 17 games (14 wins and three draws). Italy’s last defeat came on 10 September 2018, when they lost away to Portugal in the UEFA Nations League.

With Caputo and Cragno having made their debuts yesterday, the Head Coach has now fielded 27 debutants since he took charge. While Cragno is the sixth goalkeeper to play under Mancini (following on from Donnarumma, Sirigu, Perin, Gollini and Meret), Ciccio Caputo, at the age of 33 years and two months, became the oldest striker to make his Italy debut and the second most experienced Azzurri debutant of all time after Emiliano Moretti (33 years and five months). The Sassuolo forward is the 89th player to have scored at least one goal on their National Team debut, with two other players having already achieved this feat with Mancini at the helm: Pavoletti and Orsolini. This trio have thus joined an exclusive club which contains champions from various eras, like Meazza, Piola, Amadei, Chinaglia, Ancelotti, Vieri and De Rossi. Since Mancini has been in charge, Italy have scored 53 goals and have had 26 different goalscorers (Belotti has bagged the most with five), with Cristante, Berardi and Caputo joining this list yesterday.

For the first time in the National Team’s history, three Sassuolo players – Berardi, Caputo and Locatelli – took to the pitch, with the latter playing his second Italy match in Florence after his impressive debut in the team’s win against the Netherlands in Amsterdam last month. Yesterday’s friendly at the Franchi is one that Stephan El Shaarawy will never forget: on his 26th Italy appearance, he captained the side and scored his first Azzurri brace (his first goal was the 50th of the Mancini era).

Chiellini a doubt: “We’ll see how he is tomorrow, we’re confident”

Saturday, October 10, 2020 , source figc.it

Fresh from Wednesday evening’s big win against Moldova, Italy are ready to take on the double challenge of the Nations League, starting with Poland. Tomorrow evening, they will take to the pitch at the Energa Arena in Gdansk, showing the customary enthusiasm that we always see from this Azzurri side.

It is Italy’s record breaking year, thanks to their leader. In fact, Roberto Mancini best record of any head coach after 22 games in 50 years (15 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats): they’ve taken 50 points, three more than both Sacchi and Vicini. His Italy side are unbeaten in eleven home matches (6 wins and 5 draws, 31 goals scored and 6 conceded) and his success over Moldova has increased the total number of unbeaten games to 17 (14 wins and 3 draws).

Mancini gave all the credit to the team: “I hoped that the team would improve match after match,” he emphasised in the press conference on the eve of the match. “And they didn’t let me down. The lads have been great, the credit is theirs, they have been quick learners.”

First Poland, then the Netherlands in Bergamo. “They’re two important games,” Mancini explained, “I don’t know if they’ll be decisive. We haven’t planned any sort of turnover. Firts, we’ll play against Poland, and then we’ll take stock.”

Italy and Poland have played each other 16 teams, with the last meeting coming in the last season of the Nations League. The Azzurri won in Chorzow thanks to a last-minute Biraghi goal. Ahead of the game, Mancini has one or two doubts to deal with, one which pertains to Giorgio Chiellini: “We need to assess the situation with the player and we’ll do so tomorrow morning. He’s doing a lot better than when he arrived. We’ll see tomorrow, but we’re quite positive. In any case, if he’s well, he’ll play, otherwise he’ll play against the Netherlands on Wednesday.”

If he plays, Chiellini will have to deal with Lewandowski: “I think he’s one of the world’s very best strikers, and he has been for a number of years. It’s a shame to not have seen him play in Italy. He’s fundamental for Poland, but they also have some other great players. It’s not true that we struggle against top players; I think that guys like Dzeko and Lewandowski can cause problems for any team. Furthermore, Italy have always had the best defenders in the world, and we still do today.”br />
Around 10,000 spectators are expected to be present at the game tomorrow. To a question alluding to FIGC president Gabriele Gravina supposedly asking Mancini to take a step back from the debate on reopening stadiums, the head coach had this to say: “They’re adventurous with their rumours. I got in touch with president Gravina only to wish him a happy birthday.”

Source:  figc.it