Disciplinary issues, Mancini did not call Kean and Zaniolo

Rome - Roberto Mancini revealed the reason why he did not call Moise Kean and Nicolo Zaniolo to the Italian national team. Both were convicted of being disciplined.

Mancini has called in 27 players to join the Italian national team before the 2020 European Cup qualifiers. The players are ready to face Armenia (05/05/2019) and Finland (09/08/2019).

But in the row of players, there is no name Kean and Zaniolo. This decision was somewhat surprising because it was considered that these two young players had great prospects for GLI Azzurri.

Mancini then revealed why he did not call Zaniolo and Kean. He fired them because of the disciplined attitude they showed when defending the Italian U21 national team.

Kean and Zaniolo arrived late for the team meeting before the match against Belgium in the 2019 European Under-21 Cup. The role of the Italian intermediary as host must be stopped for the group stage.

Mancini punished Kean and Zaniolo. He wants these two young Italian stars to be more professional.

"I'm sure they will be useful later, in fact, I don't like leaving them as part of the punishment, but both are still young," Mancini said of Kean and Zainolo, quoted by Football. Italy.

"We give them great opportunities and we hope this will help them continue to grow, they need to learn how to behave, a professional must always behave."

"The players we have here are the best at the moment, they have been together for a long time and have done good things in the league and defending Italy," he explained.

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