Europeans of women’s football: who are the 23 called by the Italian national team

Little is missing from the starting whistle of women’s football football, which will be held in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July. The Italian national team will take the field for the debut match on July 3 at 18.00 against Belgium (Italy is in group B together with Belgium, Spain and Portugal).

“We are ready and we want to live this experience with passion, trust and awareness of what our qualities are,” said the blue coach Andrea Soncinafter having issued the official list of 23 footballers who will take part in the expedition. The athletes were chosen from the 34 present at the rally in Coverciano just ended, to which Sara Gama, the historic blue defendant who at the end of April 2025 announced his retirement from football played in the last few days.

The players called almost all of them in the Italian Serie A championship but we see in detail who I am.

Goalkeepers

Rachele Baldi

Inter goalkeeper, he has only one game as a starter in blue. The debut in the national team is dated February 2, 2023, when he defended the poles in the Arnold Clark Cup against South Korea.

Francesca during

Fiorentina goalkeeper, with whom he won a Scudetto, made his debut with the national team in 2022.

Laura Giuliani

Goalkeeper owner of the national team and Milan, At the beginning of the career he made the bakerthe only work that allowed her to keep himself and at the same time to train during the day. Exploded in the German Serie, in his spare time he loves to do yoga and be with his cats.

Defenders

Lisa Boattin

Juventus full -back, where he met his partner, Linda Sembrant, also a footballer today in force at Bayern Munich and pillar of the Swedish national team.

Lucia di Guglielmo

At Rome since 2021, he was convened for the first time in the national team in 2020, then making his debut the following year. He learned about the convocation for the European Championships on his 28th birthday.

Martina Lenzini

Juventus defender, as a child he played tennis, before falling in love with football. He started his career as a striker, until Milena Bertolini, her coach in Brescia, decided to deploy her on the band. In the national team since 2020.

Elena Linari

National team captainboasts over 100 appearances (the first in 2023). Currently in force at Roma, he is obtaining his degree in Motor Sciences and claims that his passion for football was born before birth, given that the mother was a great Fiorentina fan, and went to the stadium when he was pregnant. Lately Amnesty International he awarded the prize Sports and human rights.

Elisabetta Oliviero

Lazio defender, in blue since 2024.

Julie Piga

AC Milan defender since 2023, he was born in Lyon from his Italian father and after playing in the French youth national teams, he chose the blue uniform, with whom he made his debut in 2024.

Cecilia Salvai

At Juventus since 2017, last year due to a very ugly injury to the tendon of the femoral rectum of the right thigh has crossed a very difficult moment, during which he thought about retreat. Fortunately he has changed his mind and is now ready for the European European with the national team, in which he has played since 2013.

In 2019 she married Marco Borgese, amateur footballer.

Midfielder

Arianna Caruso

Historical Juventus footballer, from February 2025 he has been on loan to Bayern Munichwhere you are already distinguishing for its excellent performance. It has been in the national team since 2017.

Manuela Giugliano

Captain of Rome, where he wears the number 10 shirt, was the first Italian candidate, last year, to the Golden Ball. It has been in the national team since 2015.

Eleonora Goldoni

In force at Lazio after having played in Inter, he defeated anorexia also thanks to football. «I never saw myself quite Magr, I avoided food and convivial moments with friends and relatives. I had almost touched the bottom. The turning point? When during a game I suffered a contrast that did not break me in a short time. It was like going to bang a wall. I understood that there was something wrong and I committed myself to reborn. Football saved me and I don’t be ashamed to say it, “he told in January 2025 at Corriere della Sera.

Giada Greggi

In force at Rome, it was feared could not be in the squad of these Europeans due to a bad injury who in March 2025 forced her to a complex tendon reconstruction operation. In record time, however, he managed to recover and make his suitcase for Switzerland.

Eva Schatzer

At just 20 he has already conquered a championship with Juventus. The debut in the national team is dated October 2024.

Annamaria Serturini

After playing many years at Roma, he is now a Celo Cel midfield of Inter and has been in the national team since 2019. Speaking of the companion Giulia Rossi the staple of his life Together with the family, which however did not immediately accept the report. “When I told my parents that I was with a woman we spent a difficult period because they come from a small village where there is a closed mentality. But I explained that I was happy like this and when they understood it they accepted everything “

Emma Severini

He has just ended his third season with the purple shirt of Fiorentina and has been in the national team since last year.

Strikers

Chiara Beccari

Fresh from Scudetto and renewal of the contract with Juventus, has been in the national team since 2022.

Barbara Bonansea

At Juve since 2017 and in the national team since 2012, it is undoubtedly one of the group veterans, as well as one of the most famous Italian players.

Determined from an early age, Remember still what was told by the standswhen he was the only girl in a team of all males. “There have been moments when I felt judged, not by the companions but by the parents, and this still today makes me reflect because they are those who should teach to accept diversity”, he said in a recent interview in which he also said he was happy that today “girls can watch games on TV, find inspiration and see what they could become”.

Michela Cambiaghi

Daughter of art, the father Alberto who was a footballer in the 1980s, has just signed a contract that binds her to Juventus, after two seasons at Inter. It has been in the national team since 2023.

Sofia Cantore

After three seasons at Juventus, he was sold in recent days at the Washington Spirit for 300,000 euros. The operation made it the Italian footballer more paid in history and the first to play in the National Women’s Soccer Leaguethe most important football championship in the United States and one of the most prestigious globally. It has been in the national team since 2020.

Cristiana Girelli

Three times a top scorer of the Serie Aplayed in Juventus since 2018 and in the national team since 2012. He is very friend of Sofia Cantone, to whom after the transfer to the States he addressed a touching dedication: «I saw you grow, falling silent more than once and starting from scratch with that smile that distinguishes you and a mood that you didn’t even believe you have. You deserve this goal, you deserve all the affection and football love you are receiving ».

Martina Piedmont

Currently in Lazio, he also played in the Women’s Super Leaguethe highest series of the English women’s championship. In the national team since 2014, he remembers when the father, who is now his big fan, did not want to play football as a child. “” A woman can’t play football, “he said to me. So my mom, together with my uncle, secretly led me to play with my cousin. I trained with males, there were no women’s football schools when I started. “

Although excluded at the moment, Astrid Gilardi, Valentina Bergamaschi, Martina Rosucci and Aurora Galli will also be aggregated to the team for the preparation period, because in the event of injuries or diseases it is possible to change the list until midnight of the day before the debut.