At Miami vs Venezuela, March 21, 5 PM locale time, 10 PM in Italy At New York vs Ecuador, March 24, 4 PM locale time, 9 PM in Italy 28 players have been called up by Spalletti Goalies: Carnesecchi, Donnarumma, Meret and Vicario Defenders: Acerbi, Bastoni, Bellanova, Buongiorno, Cambiaso, Darmian, Dimarco, Di Lorenzo, Scalvini, Udogie Midfielders: Barella, Bonaventura, Folorunsho, Frattesi, Jorginho, Locatelli and Pellegrini Forwards: Chiesa, Lucca, Orsolini, Raspadori, Retegui, Zaccagni... Italy vs Venezuela and Ecuador in the USA ..read more

Rombo di Tuono, forward of Cagliari and Italy, has passed away, aged 79. Born in Leggiuno, Varese, in 1944, he started to play for Legnano, then moved to Cagliari in 1963 and in Sardegna he played till the retirement in 1976. The usual top clubs tried to convince him to leave the Sardinian club, but failed because Riva wanted to remain at Cagliari at all costs. He won the scudetto with Cagliari in 1969-70, the Euro tournament with the Italian NT in 1968... RIP Gigi Riva ..read more

Just watching Bologna vs Lecce and again Calafiori stands out. In the same way soule stands out but obviously one side of the ball vs the other. The tragedy is that scalvini, bastoni etc both of whom are not as good as calafiori have been anointed. it's clear the best two italian defenders are Buongiorno and Calafiori. Would spalletti have the balls to put this on paper? feel free to post musings of potential call ups here ..read more

15th June Albania - Italy 20th June Spain - Italy 24th June Croatia - Italy ..read more

Gravina doesn't care for the clause according to which the next club to hire Spalletti should have paid to ADL around 3 million euros (1 for each year of the contract)... and there is no doubt that the NT is not a club. Clearly, I ignore whether the clause includes NTs. The matter is probably going in front of a court and ADL doesn't look like the kind of guy who concedes derogations, but.... who cares? Whether Gravina is right or not, whether FIGC will have to give 3 or more million euros... Luciano Spalletti is the new C.T. of Italy ..read more

https://football-italia.net/official-mancini-dismissed-from-italy-national-team/ did not see this coming who will be the manager? will it be an interim ex player? Thoughts ..read more

Here it goes. My best uncapped italian national team of the last 45 years. I'm sure there is someone i've forgotten. I'm not happy with pistone at left back, im sure there's an uncapped player I haven't thought of that I know. (not including players of this current era as they may be capped).Feel free to post yours On the bench I have Massimo Mauro Angelo Colombo Angelo Carbone Paolo Viridis Fillipo Galli Alessandro Renica Giuseppe Iachini Fausto Pari... My best uncapped Italian NT of the last 45 years ..read more

In contrast to my previous thread '' Legends that never were'' here we have players who were no better than an average footballer in a top division but ended up with a legacy that was far better than their talent and influence were. Here i bring you a guy that is often referred to as a juventus legend but for me he was one of the most pathetic footballers i've ever watched and yet accomplished so much more than his actual ability. I bring you, mr anorexia himself... Claudio Marchisio... players who were no better than an average footballer in a top division but ended up with a legacy that ..read more

I thought it would be fun to look back on players over the last 40 years or so that seemed pre-destined and had real talent but ended up achieving very little compared to the hype/talent. We'll go 1 by 1, post for post I bring you the left foot god, the free kick king, only matched maybe with the likes of diamanti and recoba. Francesco Lodi ..read more

Discuss..from tuesday..we play the swiss no ..read more