The episode ten minutes from the end of the match against Fiorentina, the last of the season for the Bergamo team.
Giorgio Scalvini reported the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee.
The unnatural movement of the joint in chasing Ikoné 8′ from the 90′ in added time against Fiorentina was fatal for the Atalanta defender.
Scalvini had been pre-summoned by the national coach, Luciano Spalletti, ahead of the European Championships in Germany.
In the next few hours, as learned from the Nerazzurri club, the player will be subjected to further clinical-specialist evaluation to define the next suitable procedure.
The injury
After the goal, that of the momentary 2-2, desperation. On the day he scored the first goal of the season against Fiorentina, Giorgio Scalvini ran into a physical problem that will cost him the European Championship.
The Atalanta defender, 10 minutes from the end of the Serie A injury time against Fiorentina, the last match of the season won by the Viola 3-2, had suffered a bad injury to his left knee, which had immediately worried everyone.
Scalvini left the field in the 84th minute after a bad twist, accompanied on the shoulders by two members of the Orobic staff.
In 12 days there is Italy-Albania and the class of 2003 is among the 26 chosen by the Italian coach for the continental event.
Nothing Coverciano
Unlike what it might have seemed before, at best (sprained left knee) the player will not reach Coverciano tomorrow together with teammate Gianluca Scamacca.
The striker, speaking to Sky Sport, said he saw Scalvini in the locker room: “He’s scared, let’s hope so. Of course it would be a shame if he had to give up“.
Scalvini is not the only one who will miss the European Championship: The national team coach has already been forced to give up the Inter defender Francesco Acerbi, who will undergo surgery in the next few hours for a groin problem, and in his place he had pre-alerted the Juventus defender Federico Gatti who is training in Turin. At this point, the Juventus player could immediately be called to join the other Azzurri.
