Spalletti’s new-look Italy ready for Albania
Updated On: 15 June, 2024 07:15 AM IST | Wuppertal (Germany) | AFP
Italy might be reigning champions but after winning the last Euros three years ago they missed out on qualification for a second straight World Cup
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Luciano Spalletti
Italy kick off their European Championship title defence against Albania on Saturday as a new-look team try to rebuild the reputation of one of the world’s most important football nations.
Luciano Spalletti’s Italy take on Albania in Dortmund in the first of three clashes in a fiendishly difficult Group B which also contains Spain and Croatia.
And those two later fixtures make Saturday’s hugely important, as with the four best third-place finishers in the six groups reaching the knockout stages, a win over Albania would give Italy a great chance of going through.
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