The requirements are there, it's up to the player to choose. The checks carried out by Club Italia have ascertained that Joao Pedro from a bureaucratic point of view has all the requisites to be able to become part of the Italian national team: he has never played in the senior national team or in the representative teams from Under 23 onwards after the age of 21. .

It is up to him to decide whether he wants to definitively give up the possibility of wearing the green-gold jersey.

"The Club Italia offices are interested in all the players who can be called up, they are working on three specific positions and are well advanced. We take care of the formal regularization, then it is up to the coach to decide whether to call them or not", he said the federal president Gabriele Gravina.

Not only Joao Pedro therefore, the other two "specific positions" of which Gravina speaks are those of Luiz Felipe and Ibanez, both defenders.

The process for the change of nationality now continues like this: one of the managers of Club Italia will contact the players asking them to be available to wear the blue shirt and renounce the national team of their country of origin. A choice from which there is no turning back. And Joao is the man of the three who can make this choice more lightly, given his 29 years.

(Unioneonline / L)

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