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May 30, 2021 There is time until Tuesday, then Roberto Mancini will have to make the final choices by reducing the squad list for the Europeans to 26 permits.



Today the list has been reduced to 28 players, and there are excellent exclusions like that of Kean, despite the positive season with PSG (Mancini preferred Politano, whom he considers more tactically flexible), and goalkeeper Cragno, also a veteran. from an excellent vintage which, however, did not completely convince the coach, who chose Meret.



Castrovilli is also out, who until a year ago would have been untouchable, while Biraghi and Grifo had few chances and in fact were 'cut off', as was Ferrari, who in turn had taken the place of Lazzari, who called himself out for personal reasons .



The young Raspadori is also out, 'sold' to the Under21 team, but Sassuolo's talent could come back into play at the last moment.



There are also two new features compared to those who have been called up for the internship in recent days in Sardinia, namely the new continental club champions Jorginho and Emerson Palmieri, two of the three Italian natives: the third is another Brazilian, the former mysterious object of Rome, Rafael Toloi, significantly improved since he underwent the Gasperini treatment in Atalanta.



Mancini gives confidence to Sensi, despite the Sassuolo director is still struggling with physical problems, and to Bernardeschi, who played a secondary role in Juve, but who can play in various roles and is therefore considered a precious element, at the point that against San Marino the coach handed him the captain's armband of the national team.



Meanwhile Mancini will have to make the most painful choice, the one for which he has time until 1 June: cut two other players. Here the hypotheses are wasted, the most accredited is that a defender between the namesake of the coach and Rafael Toloi will be excluded, while Sensi (if he does not recover) and Pessina would play the last place.



Once this is done, we will immediately enter the atmosphere of Euro 2020 and on 11 June we start with Italy-Turkey.



This is the list of the 28 called for the meeting.


Goalkeepers

: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Meret (Naples), Sirigu (Turin).


Defenders

: Acerbi (Lazio), Bastoni (Inter), Bonucci (Juventus), Chiellini (Juventus), Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Florenzi (Paris Saint Germain), Mancini (Rome), Spinazzola (Rome) , Toloi (Atalanta).


Midfielders

: Barella (Inter), Cristante (Rome), Jorginho (Chelsea), Locatelli (Sassuolo), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Rome), Pessina (Atalanta), Sensi (Inter), Verratti (Paris Saint Germain).


Forwards

: Belotti (Turin), Berardi (Sassuolo), Bernardeschi (Juventus), Chiesa (Juventus), Immobile (Lazio), Insigne (Naples), Politano (Naples).