Coach Luciano Spaletti recently announced 30 players called up in the preliminary list to prepare for EURO 2024.

Attending EURO 2024 as the defending champion, the Italian team is not highly appreciated in terms of strength. Recently, coach Luciano Spaletti announced a preliminary list of 30 players preparing for the friendly competition period before EURO.

The official list will be shortened to 26 names, which is also the squad that the Italians will bring to Germany in their campaign to defend their European throne.

In the list of sets, three stars who contributed greatly to helping the Azzurri win the EURO 2024 championship: Donnarumma, Jorginho and Chiesa all appear. While Jorginho still proves his value in an Arsenal shirt, Donnarumma has just gone through a season with relatively unstable performance in a PSG shirt, and Chiesa has not been able to find himself after long days of injury.

Scamacca and Scalvini – The duo who just together with Atalanta destroyed the undefeated Bayer Leverkusen team to be crowned Europa League champions, were also called up.

Fagioli – The player who just returned from suspension for violating sports prediction rules, also suddenly appeared on the list. In addition, some other notable names such as Vicario, El Shaarawy, Cambiaso… promise to bring a new breeze to the Thien Thanh shirt at this year’s EURO.

EURO 2024 is the 11th European Championship final in the history of the Italian team, the Thien Thanh team also had two previous championships at Euro 1968 and Euro 2020.

Italy is also one of the leading giants in European football, regularly appearing and participating in the knockout rounds of the tournament such as the quarterfinals and semi-finals.

However, Italy is also one of the teams that often disappoints the home audience, because the results are relatively “fluctuating” and lacking stability. The evidence is that except for tournaments attended and achieved high rankings, there were many finals where the Italian team could not pass the qualifying round (such as Euro 64, 72, 92).

In the last 4 Euros, Italy has always been present at least in the Quarterfinals, including a heroic Euro 2020 championship, with a dramatic victory in the final against England right on the opponent’s Wembley field.

Coming to Euro 2024, Italy is still an unknown due to the combination of the pillars that won the crown together 4 years ago, with talented and enthusiastic young stars who will create an extremely remarkable and desirable color. wait.

Preliminary call-up list of the Italian team to attend EURO 2024

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Guglielmo Vicario, Alex Meret, Ivan Provedel.

Defenders: Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni, Matteo Darmian, Giorgio Scalvini, Alessandro Buongiorno, Gianluca Mancini, Riccardo Calafiori, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Raoul Bellanova, Federico Dimarco, Andrea Cambiaso.

Midfielders: Nicolo Barella, Davide Frattesi, Bryan Cristante, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Nicolò Fagioli, Jorginho, Samuele Ricci, Michael Folorunsho.

Forwards: Federico Chiesa, Giacomo Raspadori, Mateo Retegui, Gianluca Scamacca, Riccardo Orsolini, Mattia Zaccagni, Stephan El Shaarawy