New Chelsea Football Club signing Davide Zappacosta received a late call up to the Italian national squad to face Israel.
Zappacosta joined Chelsea from Torino on transfer deadline day for a reported £23 million.
The official Italy Twitter account said he will join up with the rest of the Italian squad for training today.
? | Davide #Zappacosta has been called up to the squad for the Israel match. He’ll be available for training in the afternoon.#Azzurri pic.twitter.com/L8xqgJ6biP
— Italy (@azzurri) September 3, 2017
The wing-back is a player that Antonio Conte knows well, it was the Chelsea head coach who gave the player his first taste of international football when he was in charge of the Azzurri.
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