The Italian team already knows the 14 names in which Meo Sachetti will trust to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The Italians play their Olympic options in Belgrade, Serbia, where they will play one of the four pre-Olympic tournaments classification of the FIBA.
Power forward for the Dallas Mavericks Nicolo Melli and the still baskonista Achille polonara lead the azzurra selection, which has as notable absences inside Milan Gigi datome and the base of the Virtus Marco Belinelli.
The full list for Italy, which will make two more cuts for the Games, is as follows:
# 0 Marco Spissu (Banco di Sardegna Sassari)
# 1 Niccolò Mannion (Golden State Warriors – NBA)
# 7 Stefano Tonut (Umana Reyer Venezia)
# 9 Nicolò Melli (Dallas Mavericks)
# 13 Simone Fontecchio (Alba Berlin)
# 16 Amedeo Tessitori (Segafredo Virtus Bologna)
# 17 Giampaolo Ricci (Segafredo Virtus Bologna)
# 23 Awudu Abass (Segafredo Virtus Bologna)
# 24 Riccardo Moraschini (A | X Armani Exchange Milano)
# 25 Michele Ruzzier (Openjobmetis Varese)
# 31 Michele Vitali (Brose Bamberg)
# 33 Achille Polonara (TD System Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz)
# 34 Mouhamet Rassoul Diouf (Unahotels Reggio Emilia)
# 54 Alessandro Pajola (Segafredo Virtus Bologna)
Italy plays in group B of the Belgrade tournament against Senegal and Puerto Ric
or, while the host Serbia will do it against the Philippines and the Dominican Republic in group A. Only the winner of the tournament will have a place in the Tokyo Games.