First blue call for Toloi and Matteo Ricci.
Italy coach Roberto Mancini has released a list of 38 players for the first three qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, against Northern Ireland, Bulgaria and Lithuania, and the news are the Atalanta defender and the midfielder of the Spice.
For Ricci, as for the three Inter players included in the group (Bastoni, Barella and Sensi), the presence in the national team is however subject to the provisions of the health authorities for the Covid emergency.
This is the list of the 38 called up.
Goalkeepers: Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Alex Meret (Naples), Salvatore Sirigu (Turin);
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Gian Marco Ferrari (Sassuolo) ), Alessandro Florenzi (Paris Saint Germain), Manuel Lazzari (Lazio), Gianluca Mancini (Rome), Leonardo Spinazzola (Rome), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina), Bryan Cristante (Rome), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Rolando Mandragora (Turin), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Rome), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Matteo Ricci (Spezia), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Roberto Soriano (Bologna), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain);
Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Turin), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Stephan El Shaarawy (Rome), Vincenzo Grifo (Friborg), Ciro Immobile (Lazio) , Lorenzo Insigne (Naples), Moise Bioty Kean (Paris Saint Germain).
