The dream became reality, Pavoletti has been called as a national team member

Many people asked loudly for him, also supported by statistical data which confirm the shocking numbers of his season in the Genoa Football Team, even though he suffered a bad injury.

On the night of 16 May, the dream of Leonardo Pavoletti, as that of many supporters, became reality: National Team. This year, the former striker of Varese Football Team, who scored 14 goals in 25 matches, has been the best scorer of the Italian main League.

The head coach of the Italian National Team, Antonio Conte, called the striker from Livorno for an internship before the European Cup in France, which will start within a month; he is one of the 28 pre-selected players, but only 25 of them are going to wear the national uniform during the European Cup.

In the team there is also another player from our province, Marco Parolo from Gallarate, who is an habitué of the national uniform. The midfielder of the Lazio Football Team already took part in the Brazilian unlucky World Cup and in other 18 national matches (the last one was the one against Germany, last March, and he entered at the 68’). This is the list of players called by Conte (but some players of Juventus and Milan are missing because they are playing the final of Coppa Italia, except from Bonucci).

Goal keeper: Federico Marchetti (Lazio), Antonio Mirante (Bologna), Marco Sportiello (Atalanta).

Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Sassuolo), Davide Astori (Fiorentina), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Armando Izzo (Genoa), Angelo Obinze Ogbonna (West Ham), Lorenzo Tonelli (Empoli).

Midfielder: Marco Benassi (Torino), Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina), Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Danilo Cataldi (Lazio), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Lorenzo De Silvestri(Sampdoria), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Alessandro Florenzi(Roma), Emanuele Giaccherini (Bologna), Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Napoli), Marco Parolo (Lazio), Roberto Soriano (Sampdoria), Davide Zappacosta (Torino).
Striker: Fabio Borini (Sunderland), Citadin Martins Eder(Inter), Ciro Immobile (Torino), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Leonardo Pavoletti (Genoa), Graziano Pellè (Southampton).