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Wilfried Gnonto has impressed astatine Leeds United successful his debut Premier League seasonItaly manager Roberto Mancini has bemoaned the shortage of players for him to prime for the nationalist broadside playing successful Serie A.
Mancini believes a deficiency of children playing shot successful the streets is 1 of the reasons for the shortage of players coming through.
England brag Gareth Southgate has similarly spoken of a decreasing fig of English Premier League players.
"We are worse disconnected than Southgate," Mancini said.
England question to Naples to statesman their Euro 2024 qualifying run against the Azzurri connected Thursday.
Italy won Euro 2020 but failed to suffice for consecutive World Cups successful 2018 and 2022.
Three Serie A sides - Napoli, AC Milan and Inter - person reached the past 8 of the Champions League for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 decades.
However, Mancini said that did not widen to improving the nationalist team.
"I don't cognize wherefore determination are truthful fewer strikers, we are precise constricted going forwards," helium said.
"We person 3 teams successful the quarter-finals of the Champions League, but retired of the 3 teams determination are 7 oregon 8 Italians astatine most. This is the reality."
Serie A high-flyers Napoli are the Champions League top-scorers this season, nevertheless their prima antheral is Victor Osimhen, who plays for Nigeria.
Only 1 Italian-born subordinate features successful Serie A's Top 10 extremity scorers: Lazio's Ciro Immobile successful ninth, but helium is injured.
The erstwhile Manchester City brag said helium was looking astatine different leagues for players - including 19-year-old Leeds United guardant Wilfried Gnonto - though helium questioned wherefore the subordinate was not picked up by a Serie A club.
He besides suggested determination was a crushed for the abbreviated proviso of apical players to prime from.
"We utilized to play for 3 oregon 4 hours connected the thoroughfare and past spell to train, contiguous this nary longer happens. It is nary coincidence that players are inactive discovered successful those countries, specified arsenic Uruguay, Argentina oregon Brazil, wherever radical inactive play a batch successful the streets."
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