The Atletico Tigre striker, on loan from Boca Juniors, was born in Argentina, but according to his father, he has an Italian passport due to his grandfather’s Sicilian ancestry.
Mancini had announced earlier this week that he would summon the current top scorer in the Argentine league (6 goals) due to the absence of injured Lazio striker Ciro Immobile.
The list, which Mancini revealed today of 30 players, included two other new faces, Lecce goalkeeper Vladimiro Falconi and Torino defender Alessandro Bonjorno.
Here is the list:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain, France), Vladimiro Falcone (Lecce), Alex Merritt (Napoli), Ivan Providel (Lazio).
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi, Matteo Darmian, Federico Dimarco (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Alessandro Bongiorno (Torino), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Alessio Romagnoli (Lazio), Giorgio Scalvini and Raffaele Tolloi (Atalanta), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma) .
Midfielders: Niccolo Barella (Inter), Brian Cristante and Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Davide Frazzi (Sassuolo), Jorginho (Arsenal), Matteo Pesina (Montsa), Sandro Tonali (Milan), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain).
For attack: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Wilfred Nyonto (Leeds United, England), Vincenzo Grifo (Freiburg, Germany), Simone Pafundi (Udinese), Matteo Politano (Napoli), Matteo Retigi (Atletico Tigre, Argentina), Gianluca Skamaca (West Ham United, England).
