{"id":22185,"date":"2025-10-06T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22185"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:04:01","slug":"italy-coach-gattuso-calls-up-spinazzola-following-politano-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22185","title":{"rendered":"Italy coach Gattuso calls up Spinazzola following Politano injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso called up Leonardo Spinazzola for upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Israel after his Napoli teammate Matteo Politano picked up a hamstring injury on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Attacker Politano was forced to leave the field in the 50th minute of Napoli&#8217;s 2-1 win over Genoa on Sunday, when he was also replaced by Spinazzola.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli coach Antonio Conte later confirmed a hamstring knock but neither he nor Napoli said for how long Politano would be out of action.<\/p>\n<p>Spinazzola, who starred in Italy&#8217;s Euro 2020 triumph before rupturing his Achilles tendon, has not played international football since June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Azzurri face Estonia on Saturday night before hosting Israel in Udine, a match which will be prefaced by protests due to Israel&#8217;s continued offensive in the Gaza Strip which has led to mass demonstrations in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Italy, who failed to qualify for the last two World Cups, sit second in Group I, six points behind leaders Norway with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Only top spot in the group gives direct qualification to next summer&#8217;s finals in the USA, Mexico and Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso called up Leonardo Spinazzola for upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Israel after his Napoli teammate Matteo Politano picked up a hamstring injury on Sunday. Attacker Politano was forced to leave the field in the 50th minute of Napoli&#8217;s 2-1 win over Genoa on Sunday, when he was also replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}