Italy include 17-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in squad
Thursday 1 September 2016 08:36, UK
AC Milan's 17-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has received his first call up to the Italy squad.
New Italy coach Giampiero Ventura, who took over the reins from Antonio Conte after Euro 2016, could now make Donnarumma Italy's youngest player since 1911.
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Donnarumma saved a penalty on his Milan debut in 2015 when he became Serie A's youngest 'keeper at the age of 16. Now aged 17 years and six months, he is on track to become the youngest senior Italy international since Rodolfo Gavinelli 105 years ago.
Ventura named several new faces in his 26-man squad, with AC Milan defender Alessio Romagnoli, who has attracted the interest of Chelsea this summer, Torino forward Andrea Belotti and Leonardo Pavoletti of Genoa all included for the first time.
Fifteen players from the Euro 2016 squad remain, including forwards Eder, Graziano Pelle and Ciro Immobile.
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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti, who missed the European Championship due to injury, has also been recalled.
Italy, who reached the European Championship quarter-finals before losing on penalties to Germany, meet France in a friendly in Bari on 1 September before a World Cup qualifier against Israel in Haifa on September 5.
Italy squad:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Federico Marchetti (Lazio).
Defenders: Luca Antonelli (AC Milan), Davide Astori (Fiorentina), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Mattia De Sciglio (AC Milan), Angelo Ogbonna (West Ham), Alessio Romagnoli (AC Milan), Daniele Rugani (Juventus).
Midfielders: Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina), Giacomo Bonaventura (AC Milan), Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Riccardo Montolivo (AC Milan), Marco Parolo (Lazio), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain).
Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Eder (Inter Milan), Manolo Gabbiadini (Napoli), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Leonardo Pavoletti (Genoa), Graziano Pelle (Shandong Luneng).
