Two days of holidays before diving back into football and thinking only about the European Championships.
The Italian women's national team will go to England, where it will be played from 6 to 31 July, determined to make a good impression and for this reason it is preparing properly.
In Castel di Sangro the first month of the blue meeting ended and the coach Milena Bertolini had to make the first choices, removing four players from the list of players called.
Contrary to what happened for the men's European Championships, where squads with 26 players were allowed, in the women's ones the limit of 23 remained, therefore Bertolini, who had brought 27 girls with him to retreat, had to exclude four, namely Roberta Aprile, Angelica Soffia, Giada Greggi and Annamaria Serturini.
Made this choice, which is never easy, the appointment is for tomorrow afternoon,
when the blue will start the last week of work on the field of the 'Teofilo Patini' stadium.
On Friday 1 July, again in Castel di Sangro, there will be a friendly match against Spain, which will precede the departure of the delegation for England by three days.
That of the Europeans promises to be an exciting adventure that will see Italy grappling with a complicated group in which they will face France, national team in third place in the FIFA rankings, Iceland and Belgium.
The blue, who in the last edition played in the Netherlands in 2017 were eliminated in the group stage, will begin their journey by facing the French on July 10 (9pm in Rome) at the New York Stadium in Rotherham, while on July 14 at 5pm local time. , 6 pm in Italy, will face the
Iceland at the Manchester City Academy Stadium in Manchester.
The same facility will host the match of 18 July (at 21 Italian) between the blue and Belgium.
These matches will be broadcast live by Rai and Sky, and it must be said that the first two of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals.
And access to the quarters will be the minimum goal of the blue.
