“I had a terrible summer, thinking about the last race of the European Championship.” Luciano Spalletti he finds the national team, in the first retreat after the disaster of Euro 2024, and he doesn’t mince his words: “I feel responsible for what happened – said the Italian coach in his first press conference from Coverciano, in view of the Nations League – The players are totally relieved of these responsibilities, as I told them today: I put too much pressure on them, I didn’t give them time to enjoy the blue shirt on. Now I have to be the first to change and believe that I have a different strength on my players”.
In the press conference, Spalletti himself then focused on some individuals, including Moise Kean: “Kean is now playing consistently, Palladino is enthusiastic about the qualities of his player. We had faith in these qualities of his, we had already brought him and had him play very important parts of the match”.
This is the list of 23 players called up
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);
Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Atalanta), Alessandro Buongiorno (Napoli), Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Caleb Okoli (Leicester), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham);
Midfielders: Marco Brescianini (Atalanta), Nicolò Fagioli (Juventus), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Samuele Ricci (Turin), Sandro Tonali (Newcastle);
Attackers: Moise Kean (Fiorentina), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).