Once again AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has been admitted into Luigi Di Biagio’s Italy Under-21 squad for crucial European Championship qualifiers.
The Azzurrini will take on Republic of Ireland on March 24 before travelling to Andorra five days later as they look to hold onto first place Group 2 of the 2017 tournament’s qualifiers.
Along with Donnarumma, Torino’s Marco Benassi and Gaetano Monachello make the 25-man squad, having joint-top scored for Italy so far in the qualifying campaign, while Virtus Lancanio goalkeeper Federico Di Francesco gets his first call-up.
The squad in full is as follows:
Goalkeepers – Alessio Cragno (Virtus Lanciano), Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Simone Scuffet (Como).
Defenders – Antonio Barreca (Cagliari), David Calabria (Milan), Mattia Caldara (Cesena), Andrea Conti (Atalanta), Alex Ferrari (Bologna), Adam Masina (Bologna), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan), Daniele Rugani (Juventus).
Midfielders – Marco Benassi (Turin), Danilo Cataldi (Lazio), Federico Di Francesco (Virtus Lanciano), Rolando Mandragora (Pescara), Luca Mazzitelli (Brescia), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Sassuolo), Stefano Sensi (Cesena).
Forwards – Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina), Alberto Cerri (Cagliari), Luca Garritano (Cesena), Gaetano Monachello (Atalanta), Federico Ricci (Crotone), Valerio Lorenzo Rosseti (Cesena).
