From today Sacchetti’s Italy in retreat, on Saturday the departure for Tokyo
SASSARI. The approach march of Meo Sacchetti’s national team to the Tokyo Olympic Games begins today. A little less than two weeks before the debut, scheduled for 25 July, the Azzurri will meet today at the Acqua Acetosa sports center in Rome for a few days of preparation. Departure for Japan on Saturday.
In addition to the twelve called up by the coach, Momo Diouf and Matteo Spagnolo, joined for the training sessions of these days, will then return to the National Under 20 team starting from Saturday.
As has been known for some time, in the squad list there is the name of Danilo Gallinari, who once finished the season in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks made himself available and was immediately inserted in place of Abass.
These are the players called up: Marco Spissu (Banco di Sardegna Sassari), Niccolò Mannion (Golden State Warriors), Stefano Tonut (Umana Reyer Venezia), Danilo Gallinari (Atlanta Hawks), Nicolò Melli (A, A | X Armani Exchange Milano), Simone Fontecchio (TD Systems Baskonia), Amedeo Tessitori (Segafredo Virtus Bologna), Giampaolo Ricci (A | X Armani Exchange Milan), Riccardo Moraschini (A | X Armani Exchange Milan), Michele Vitali (Umana Reyer Venice), Achille Polonara (Fenerbahce Istanbul ), Alessandro Pajola (Segafredo Virtus Bologna).
Italy will face Germany on 25 July, Australia on 28 and Nigeria on 31 July. The 12 teams are divided into three days of four formations each. The first two classified of each group and the two best thirds enter the quarter-finals.
