Gianluigi Donnarumma is already looking ahead to the next goal

Just forty-eight’hours have passed since his PSG team’s triumph in the Champions League final against Inter Milan, but Gianluigi Donnarumma is already projected toward the next challenge, the one represented by the two matches that will inaugurate Italy’s path in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. The Azzurri will take the field on Friday, May 6, away against Norway and on Monday, May 9, at home against Moldova.

“I am happy to be able to return to the ’environment of the national team– said Donnarumma, to the microphones of ‘Sky Sport‘, upon his arrival at the Coverciano technical center -. We have to work hard, two important battles await us in the coming days”. Donnarumma is part of the list of summoned by coach Spalletti and will keep the captain’s armband.

The goal is clear, to dispel the World Cup taboo once and for all and return to the rainbow competition after the two missed qualifiers for Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022: “We have to go to the World Cup – he sentenced ‘Gigio’ -, we play two crucial matches right away, we have to be focused on the goal”.

Italy is placed in Group I of the qualifiers for the review to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico a year from now. It will be important to get a result against Norway, which has already played two matches, winning both, and not to underestimate Moldova, which despite two knockouts in the first two outings can be a tough opponent if taken underhand.