After facing Portugal in a friendly match in December (a draw and a defeat: 1-1 and 2-1), the Italy U16s team is getting ready for the annual Torneo dei Gironi, which will take place from 24 to 26 January at the Coverciano Federal Technical Centre.

Coach Marco Scarpa has called up 62 players, all born in 2009, who will be divided into three teams: one made up of 22 players (national team) and two of 20 (Rappresentativa A and Rappresentativa B). The three-way tournament will start on Friday 24 January (15:00 CET) with the match between Rappresentativa A and Rappresentativa B, while the national team will play on Saturday 25 (15:00 CET) and Sunday 26 January (11:00 CET) against the loser and the winner of the first match respectively.

ACCREDITATION. Access to the matches, scheduled at the Centro Tecnico Federale Luigi Ridolfi, will be allowed only to those who are in possession of regular accreditation (maximum two for each player called up and two for each professional club). Requests must be sent no later than 16:00 CET on the day before the match to the following e-mail address: s.filacchione@figc.it. For the media, requests must be sent to press@figc.it, with a copy to a.paoli@guest.figc.it.

THE LIST OF CALL-UPS

Goalkeepers: Alessandro Bianchi (AC Milan), Lorenzo Costoli (Genoa), Emanuele Giaretta (Juventus), Tommaso Mazzi (Fiorentina), Mattia Sonzogni (Atalanta), Niccolò Tumaku (Udinese);
Defenders: Matteo Andreotti (Bologna), Pietro Battaglini (Empoli), Giampaolo Bonifazi (Roma), Emanuele Bosisio (Atalanta), Djibril Diallo (Parma), Angelo Antonio Di Palma (Cremonese), Andrea Donato (Inter), Matteo Iovane (Lazio), Vergano Antonio Maggiora (Frosinone), Mattia Mercogliano (AC Milan), Guglielmo Mosca (Juventus), Nicolò Motta (Modena), Dennis Ettore Pierro (Torino), Davide Rigo (Juventus), Edoardo Dario Rocca (Inter), Edoardo Rocchetti (Juventus), Luca Saladino (Genoa), Alessio Scelta (Palermo), Marco Silvestri (Bari), Mohamed Force Toure (Bologna), Ludovico Varali (Hellas Verona), Davide Verdelli (Atalanta);
Midfielders: Mattias Allasufi (Inter), Mattia Angelicchio (AC Milan), Giovanni Francesco Baldini (Bologna), Federico Benassi (Juventus), Youssef Boulifi (Torino), Cristiano Brembilla (Parma), Mattia Brizzolari Cossio (Genoa)*, Fabio Bruno (Empoli), Giuseppe D'Agostino (Lazio), Agostino Fazio (Genoa), Francesco Gasparello (Atalanta), Gioele Giammattei (Roma), Thomas Martini (AC Milan), Luigi Riccio (Napoli), Pietro Stocco (Atalanta), David Zanin (Hellas Verona);
Forwards: Horacio Ali-Sticca (Watford), Antonio Arena (Pescara), Pietro Umberto Avogadro Di Vigliano (AC Milan), Thomas Corigliano (Juventus), Lorenzo Dal Bon (Roma), Destiny Onoguekhan Elimoghale (Juventus), El Hadji Moussa Tall Faye (Fiorentina), Marcello Fugazzola (Atalanta), Delis Gjeci (Inter), Alessandro Isidori (Empoli), Jacopo Landi (Empoli), Thomas Matarrese (Inter), Davide Meneguzzo (Vicenza), Ikenna Miracle Nwagwu (Fiorentina), Riccardo Paonessa (Juventus), Diego Perillo (Empoli), Daniele Petrone (Benevento), Rosindo Zanni (Monza).