Italy called Retegui, Argentina ‘pichichi’

The Italian-Argentine Mateo Retegui was summoned this Friday for the first time for the Italian team, whose coach, Roberto Manciniannounced the list for the first matches of the qualifying phase for Euro 2024.

retegui, 23 years old, plays for Tigre and is currently the leading scorer in Argentina’s championship. He was born in Argentina, but he also has an Italian passport through his father. Retegui’s grandfather was of Sicilian origin.

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Lack of strikers due to injury to Ciro Immobile, Mancini summoned retegui. Other new arrivals include Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone and Torino defender Alessandro Buongiorno. Two from PSG, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Marco Verratti, are on the list.

Italy, current European champions but absent from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, will face England on March 23 in Naples (re-issue of the last Euro Cup final) and Malta on March 26. In this group C there are also Ukraine and North Macedonia (which left Italy without a World Cup).

The list of Italy against England and Malta

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris SG /FRA), Wladimiro Falcone (Lecce/ITA), Alex Meret (Naples/ITA), Ivan Provedel (Lazio/ITA).

Defenses: Francesco Acerbi (Inter/ITA), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus/ITA), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino/ITA), Matteo Darmian (Inter/ITA), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Naples/ITA), Federico Dimarco (Inter/ITA), Alessio Romagnoli (Lazio/ITA), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta/ITA), Leonardo Spinazzola (Rome/ITA), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta/ITA).

Media: Nicolò Barella (Inter/ITA), Bryan Cristante (Rome/ITA), Davide Frattesi (Sassuolo/ITA), Jorginho (Arsenal/ENG), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Rome/ITA), Matteo Pessina (Monza/ITA), Sandro Tonali ( Milan/ITA), Marco Verratti (Paris SG/FRA).

Forward: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo/ITA), Federico Chiesa (Juventus/ITA), Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds/ENG), Vincenzo Grifo Rome (Fribourg/ALE), Simone Pafundi (Udinese/ITA), Matteo Politano (Napoli/ITA), Mateo Retegui (Club Atletico Tigre/ARG), Gianluca Scamacca (West Ham/ENG).