In exactly one week the European Championship will begin‘Italy Of Luciano Spallettiwho as reigning champion will try to defend the title tooth and nail France and England, above all, they will try to snatch them by next July 14th. Milan will be there at the next European Championships anyway, but not representing the Italian national team: in fact, for the first time since 1938, no AC Milan player was called up by Italy for an official competition.
This is a real paradox, given that the Devil is the third team to have given more players to the national team over the years for a total of 110 members for 1427 minutes. Despite this, however, in the last 10 years Milan is second in terms of players called up by Italy21, behind a dominating Juventus with 23.
Towards EURO2024: the complete list of Spalletti’s Italy squad
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);
Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Turin), Alessandro Buongiorno (Turin), Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Gianluca Mancini (Roma);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolò Fagioli (Juventus), Michael Folorunsho (Hellas Verona), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Jorginho (Arsenal), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma);
Attackers: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).
