Millions of people around Italy watched a comical yet entertaining three-hour special on public TV to announce Roberto Mancini's 26-man squad for the upcoming European Championships. Are you ready for this?
It was an announcement show full of weird and wonderful sketches.
Roberto Mancini and Daniele De Rossi played tennis with frying pans, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ciro Immobile and Lorenzo Insigne had a rap battle before the entire squad belted out Italy's iconic national anthem to end what was a quite frankly bizarre night.
Here is a thread of everything that happened on Tuesday night. Get ready. This is a tad weird.
In terms of Italy's 26-man squad - an announcement that fans waited three hours for [was it worth it? probably not] and Roberto Mancini put to bed all speculation with a team that could potentially challenge for the tournament.
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Here is that squad in full:
Goalkeepers: 21 Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), 26 Alex Meret (Napoli), 1 Salvatore Sirigu (Torino)
Defenders: 15 Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), 23 Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), 19 Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), 3 Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), 2 Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), 13 Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), 24 Alessandro Florenzi (Paris Saint-Germain), 4 Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), 25 Rafael Toloi (Atalanta)
Midfielders: 18 Nicolò Barella (Inter), 16 Bryan Cristante (Roma), 8 Frello Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Chelsea), 5 Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), 7 Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), 12 Stefano Sensi (Inter), 6 Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
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Forwards: 9 Andrea Belotti (Torino), 11 Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), 20 Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), 14 Federico Chiesa (Juventus), 17 Ciro Immobile (Lazio), 10 Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), 22 Giacomo Raspadori (Sassuolo)
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