At 16 years, 8 months and 2 days, Simone Pafundi (2006) he became the youngest debutant for the Italian national team in the last 100 years. Also in the third in the entire history of the ‘Azzurra’. It was in November 2022, when Roberto Manciniin love with this little ’10’ from the youth academy Udinese (now on loan at Swiss club Laussanne), decided to give him an alternative in a friendly against Albania when he had not yet played 10 games in Serie A. “First Funding and then the others. “This is how I made the list,” the Azzurra coach said at the time.
Later in June 2023, Funding scored a great goal from a free kick with Italy U-20, in the semifinals of the World Cup category, where it was said that the kick of his left leg was similar to Diego Armando Maradona. That the ball draws a parabola between the hypnotic and the magical. And Italy will rely on his spells to dominate the U-19 European Championship to be held in Northern Ireland. Funding He is definitely one of the players to watch out for in the tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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