The Italy to come, now space for Zaniolo and Tonali

And now who do we start from?

The question concerns not only the future of Roberto Mancini, whom the English bookies nominate as a possible new manager of Manchester United (but behind the favorite Ten Hag) while in France he is given in the running for the PSG bench.

Here we must also think about who will play in the Italy of the future, who will try, if not to confirm themselves, at least not to disfigure the next European championship and then to bring Italy back to the World Cup in 2026, twelve years after the last time. .

If for the Alpha generation, of those born after 2010, cheering the national team at the World Cup is unknown, it will have to be other guys, those a few years older than them, to build the national team of the future, which they will try to bring back in vogue the ancient coat of arms, that of the four world titles won.

Chiellini, Bonucci, probably also Insigne who emigrated to Canada are saying goodbye: this is also why a generational change is inevitable.

Some important elements have already been present in Mancini's calls: just think of

KEAN (if he still enjoys the trust of the coach or whoever will replace him) and

, so there is a basis on which to start again.

But it will certainly not be easy, just think of the alarm cry launched in recent days by the under-21 coach Paolo Nicolato about the lack of minutes played by his team, who find very little space in the top flight, to the point that the coach has already had to resort to people who are in Serie C where, at least, he plays the owner.

And there is another fact that makes you think and does not make the future so bright: it is precisely the under 21 who took part (with the three out of range) for the last time in the football tournament of the Olympics in 2004, when it was bronze. Athens.

Since then, nothing, as if to say that even at the level of youth tournaments something does not work.

Meanwhile, all that remains is to hope for the explosion at the highest levels of people like

('little star' of Italy under 20 but who never plays in Milan, apart from the feat of the goal scored in Empoli),

and that

that in C scores with Catania a lot of goals and has already been bought by Sassuolo.

Disappeared from the radar, at least for now,

(Inter have already stopped believing in him) and

, who for now has not benefited from the move to Turin.

It was he, scoring in Serie A at the age of 15 on the day of Totti's farewell to football, the greatest hope of Italian football, but an endless series of physical problems is blocking his career.

In his place they could assert themselves in the shoes of the future Azzurri

, but the former after a boom in Pisa has now stopped scoring while the other, Roma school and gifted with good individual technique, is just starting out but is already scored in Verona.

And speaking of Rome, José Mourinho highly esteems

, a new addition to the blue under 21 (previously he was part of the under 20).

In Bergamo, on the other hand, Gasperini guarantees the future of his defender

, who will turn 19 in December.

Another defender from the Atalanta school,

I, now on loan to Salernitana, is to be kept in mind.

In midfield, the future of Italy could also be

I, formerly of Empoli and now in Turin, while the move to Juventus (if it happens) could accelerate the growth process of Genoa's

.

In Empoli the defender

is being highlighted , while the former Roma

has some difficulties in Genoa but still has time to recover.

To keep an eye on In Bologna there is

, a former jewel of Chievo, who has a younger brother who some consider even better than him, and who plays in Serie B in Monza together with another talent such as the defender PIROLA, on loan from ' Inter.

For the door the young age of Donnarumma and Meret, but pay attention to

, one of the Cremonese jewels together with

(who should return to Juve) and

.

Other names?

, but thinking of the Pedri and Gavi owners in Barcelona already as minors, the impression is that Mancini or whoever will have to work for him.