This summer, Milan only had two players at the Euros, with
only two other players on national team duty as well. While that
number was greatly impacted by injuries, as well as our growing number
of youth players, it seemed quite harsh. But for this International Break, we
actually have 13 players on national team duty. Which means not only are the
youth playing this time around, but we have a lot fewer injuries. So check out
the list below and enjoy some football as our Milan players make us proud on
their tour of duty.
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| Sunday's hero Locatelli when he played for Italy's U17 |
Youth Team Callups:
Locatelli and Plizzari have been called up by Italy's U19
Italy’s U19 team will
travel to Portugal for friendlies today at 16:00 CEST and again Tuesday,
October 11th at 16:00 CEST
Calabria has
been called up by Italy's U21
Italy U21 are away to Lithuania on Tuesday, October 11th at
17:00 CEST
Pasalic has been
called up for Croatia U-21
Croatia will play Sweden away in their Euro Qualifier on Monday, October
10th at 18:45 CEST
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| Gomez and Bacca have met before, including at this year's Copa America |
Senior Team Callups:
Honda has
been called up by Japan
They will host Iraq today at 19:35 local time and then go to
Australia on Tuesday, October 11th at 20:00 local time for their World Cup
Qualifiers
Gomez has
been called up by Paraguay
First they will host Bacca’s face Colombia today at 20:30
local time, then they will be away to Argentina on Tuesday, October 11th at
20:30 local time for their World Cup Qualifiers
Bacca has
been called up by Colombia
First they will be away to Gomez’ Paraguay today at 20:30
local time, then they host Uruguay on Tuesday, October 11th at 15:30 local time
in their World Cup Qualifiers
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| Primal Kucka |
Kucka has been
called up by Slovakia
Slovakia are away to Slovenia on Saturday, October 8th at
20:45 CEST and host Scotland on Tuesday, October 11th at 20:45 CEST in their World
Cup Qualifiers
Donnarumma,
Romagnoli, Bonaventura, De Sciglio, and Montolivo have been called up
by Italy (this is Romagnoli's first official
senior NT callup. Ventura called him up initially last time, but he ended up
playing for the U21 team instead.)
Italy are playing Spain in Turin today at 20:45 CEST, then are away to Macedonia on Sunday, October 9th, at 20:45 CEST for
their World Cup Qualifiers
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| Loki coming out of the Juve dressing room with that face can only mean one thing... that he's starting for Italy today |
Not only do we have more players representing their national
teams, but Milan have the most Italian players called up to the senior national
team this break, as well. Which, by Juve fan logic, means that Milan will win
the Scudetto. But we aren’t Juve fans, so let’s not get carried away. And don’t
be too worried about the friendly fire between Bacca and Gomez, as the latter
did not feature for Paraguay during the last break. Let’s just enjoy watching
our players in different teams and formations for their tour of duty.
This post inspired by the music of U2’s
War album
Our next match is a friendly
FC Chiasso vs. AC Milan
Saturday, October 8 • 16:00 CEST (10am EDT)