ROME, 26 Apr. (dpa/EP) –
Italian international Giorgio Chiellini will leave the national team after the new Diego Armando Maradona Cup, the match that the ‘Azzurra’ will play against Argentina at Wembley on June 1, thus ending an international career that began in 2004.
The center-back is retiring from national team football at the age of 37 in a match that will pit the champion of the last European Championship against the Copa América champion. In addition, the match is played in the place where Chiellini managed to proclaim himself European champion against England last summer.
Chiellini explained on DAZN that this match on June 1 would be the perfect goodbye for the Italian team after the harsh elimination they suffered at the hands of North Macedonia last March, which left the transalpines eliminated from the Qatar 2022 World Cup. .
Thus ends a career of 116 matches with the Italian team, of which he has been the captain in recent years and with which he has managed to win a European Championship, in 2021, and be runner-up in 2012, when he fell against Spain .
As for his career at Juventus, he has not yet made a decision on whether or not he will play another season. This campaign he can still lift a trophy, as he will play the Italian Cup final against Inter Milan next May.