{"id":8810,"date":"2023-11-16T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/italy-coach-spalletti-calls-up-mancini-for-euro-2024-clashes\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:43:17","slug":"italy-coach-spalletti-calls-up-mancini-for-euro-2024-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/italy-coach-spalletti-calls-up-mancini-for-euro-2024-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy coach Spalletti calls up Mancini for Euro 2024 clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Milan defender Alessandro Bastoni has withdrawn from Italy\u2019s last two Euro 2024 qualifiers and has been replaced by Roma\u2019s Gianluca Mancini, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bastoni is suffering from a muscle strain in his right calf, the FIGC said.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Luciano Spalletti had already lost two central defenders from his initial 29-man squad to injury, AC Milan captain Davide Calabria and Rafael Toloi of Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p>Spalletti has also called up uncapped Atalanta goalkeeper Marco Carnesecchi because Tottenham\u2019s Guglielmo Vicario is slightly ill.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning European champion Italy is third in its group where table topper England has already qualified.<\/p>\n<p>To lock up qualification as runner-up, Italy needs to pick up at least four points from its games against Northern Macedonia in Rome on Friday and Ukraine in Leverkusen in Germany on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To lock up qualification as runner-up, Italy needs to pick up at least four points from its games against Northern Macedonia in Rome on Friday and Ukraine in Leverkusen in Germany on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}