Mancini calls 53 young players for Italy trials

Italy coach Roberto Mancini has called up 53 players for a training camp from May 24-26, including an Udinese youngster born in 2006.

The plan for the sessions is to give Mancini and his staff the opportunity to see potential Azzurri newcomers in action.

It should also help those from the youth squads to be prepared for a step up to the senior level.

As there are 53 players, they will be split into two groups in two training sessions.

There are 29 Serie A figures, 18 in Serie B and six who play their club football outside of the Peninsula.

The youngest in the group is Udinese creative midfielder Simone Pafundi, who was born in 2006, while the oldest is Empoli goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario at a ripe old 25.

As the Serie B promotion play-offs are still going on, and Roma will play the Conference League Final against Feyenoord on May 25, those representatives are not included.

The only potential exception is Pisa striker Lorenzo Lucca, who will be called if his team is eliminated from the play-offs early.

Group 1

Raoul Bellanova (Cagliari)
Nicolò Cambiaghi (Pordenone)
Marco Carnesecchi (Cremonese)
Nicolò Casale (Verona)
Giuseppe Caso (Cosenza)
Alessandro Cortinovis (Reggina)
Sebastiano Esposito (Basel)
Denis Franchi (Paris Saint Germain)
Matteo Gabbia (Milan)
Federico Gatti (Frosinone)
Matteo Lovato (Cagliari)
Lorenzo Lucca (Pisa)
Daniel Maldini (Milan)
Filippo Melegoni (Genoa)
Fabiano Parisi (Empoli)
Giacomo Quagliata (Heracles Almelo)
Filippo Ranocchia (Vicenza)
Samuele Ricci (Torino)
Nicolò Rovella (Genoa)
Eddie Anthony Salcedo (Spezia)
Riccardo Sottil (Fiorentina)
Destiny Iyenoma Udogie (Udinese)
Guglielmo Vicario (Empoli)
Emanuel Vignato (Bologna)
Kelvin Yeboah (Genoa)
Nadir Zortea (Salernitana)

 

Group 2

Tommaso Baldanzi (Empoli)
Riccardo Calafiori (Genoa)
Andrea Cambiaso (Genoa)
Matteo Cancellieri (Verona)
Lorenzo Colombo (Spal)
Diego Coppola (Verona)
Christian Dalle Mura (Pordenone)
Sebastiano Desplanches (Milan)
Salvatore Esposito (Spal)
Nicolò Fagioli (Cremonese)
Gianluca Gaetano (Cremonese)
Wilfried Gnonto (Fussballclub Zurich)
Jean Freddi Pascal Greco (Vicenza)
Caleb Okoli (Cremonese)
Tommaso Mancini (Vicenza)
Tommaso Milanese (Alessandria)
Marco Nasti (Milan)
Gaetano Oristanio (Volendam)
Simone Pafundi (Udinese)
Pietro Pellegri (Torino)
Roberto Piccoli (Genoa)
Alessandro Plizzari (Lecce)
Matteo Ruggeri (Salernitana)
Alessandro Sorrentino (Pescara)
Franco Tongya (Olympique Marseille)
Mattia Viti (Empoli)
Alessandro Zanoli (Napoli)