FOOTBALL . With Sulemana’s call-up, the number of Atalanta players who will play in the World Cup with their national team has reached seven, and the list is final. The old record of four at Qatar 2022 has almost doubled.
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Less than a minute read.The magnificent seven are, with Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana), Mario Pasalic (Croatia), Marten de Roon (Netherlands), Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium), Isak Hien (Sweden), Sead Kolasinac (Bosnia) and Kossounou (Ivory Coast). De Roon and Pasalic were also there in 2022, when Teun Koopmeiners (Netherlands) and Joakim Maehle (Denmark) were also included in the Nerazzurri ranks. Previously, the number had reached two three times: in 1950 with the Azzurri Casari and Caprile, in 1990 with Caniggia in Argentina and Stromberg in Sweden, and in 2018 with Freuler in Switzerland and Cornelius in Denmark.
The magnificent seven are, with Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana), Mario Pasalic (Croatia), Marten de Roon (Netherlands), Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium), Isak Hien (Sweden), Sead Kolasinac (Bosnia) and Kossounou (Ivory Coast)
Second Serie A team after Milan
The Nerazzurri players at the World Cup could have been more if Italy had also qualified because Marco Carnesecchi, Giorgio Scalvini, Jack Raspadori and Gianluca Scamacca were in the Azzurri squad. For the World Cup, it is still a record, while the record for the European Championships was set in 2020 with nine. Seven players at the World Cup is an excellent figure when considering the call-ups from the various Serie A teams: Atalanta is second, alongside Inter and Juventus, behind Milan, which faltered at the finish line, and has 10.
