Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini returns to the national team after a season marked by injuries
Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini, after a season marked by injuries, returns a year later to Roberto Mancini's Italian national team call-up for the start of the Nations League against Bosnia and Holland, in a list with 37 players and with the debut of Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), and Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo).
A rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee kept the Juventus center-back out of a good part of the previous season, and now he returns to the national team for the matches on September 4th in Florence, and September 7th in Amsterdam, against Bosnia and Holland, respectively.
It is Italy's return to activity ten months after the 9-1 win against Armenia, their last match, which extended a streak of eleven consecutive victories.
In the call-up of 37 men for the two matches, there are two players awaiting "tests planned at the end of their isolation period", as reported by the Italian Football Federation: Jorginho from Chelsea and Sandro Tonalli from Brescia.
- CALL-UP:Goalkeepers: Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Alex Meret (Napoli), and Salvatore Sirigu (Torino).
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Cristiano Biraghi (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Mattia Caldara (Atalanta), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Luca Pellegrini (Juventus), and Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma).
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Giacomo Bonaventura, Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Jorginho (Chelsea), Roberto Gagliardini (Inter), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Sandro Tonali (Brescia), and Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma).
Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenua), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Moise Kean (Everton), Kevin Lasagna (Udinese), and Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna).