Saturday, 04 September 2010Luca Antonelli earns his first Italy cap

Parma left back Luca Antonelli made his first appearance for the Italian national side, coming on as a substitute in Italy’s 2-1 victory over Estonia yesterday.

Antonio Mirante was also in the squad but will have to wait to make his debut as he featured on the bench.

However there wasn’t good news for either Alberto Paloschi or Valeri Bojinov as they both picked up injuries in their respective international matches.

Paloschi’s injury was serious enough to rule him out of the Wales match on Tuesday while Bojinov is just thought to have suffered a minor muscle cramp.

Rolf Feltscher also played a part in the Switzerland U21′s match against Ireland.