# Italy team for FIBA World Cup 2023 qualification

The Italy team for FIBA World Cup 2023 qualification will represent Italy at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

## Timeline

* 31 August 2021: the draw is held in Switzerland and Italy goes in the Group H with Russia, Netherlands and Iceland.

### First window

* 10 November 2021: submitted the long list of 24 players.
* 16 November 2021: submitted the list of 16 players.
* 22 November 2021: Mannion and Totè are replaced with Flaccadori and Udom, for health reason.
* 24 November 2021: submitted the final list of 12 players for the match against Russia.
* 26 November 2021: Russia 92 – 78 Italy.
* 24 November 2021: submitted the final list of 12 players for the match against Netherlands.

## Kit

Supplier: Spalding / Sponsor: Barilla
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## Roster

The following 16 players were called by Matteo Sacchetti for the first window against Netherlands.

### Depth chart

| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
| C | Nicolo Melli | Paul Biligha | |
| PF | Danilo Gallinari | Achille Polonara | Giampaolo Ricci |
| SF | Simone Fontecchio | Luigi Datome | |
| SG | Stefano Tonut | Tommaso Baldasso | |
| PG | Marco Spissu | Nico Mannion | Alessandro Pajola |

### All Games

These were the players that coach Sacchetti called for the qualification in the three windows.
| Pos. | No. | Name | Age | Ht. |
| PG | 4 | Leonardo Candi | 24 | 1.90 |
| SG | 7 | Stefano Tonut | 26 | 1.44 |
| SG | 12 | Diego Flaccadori | 25 | 1.95 |
| PG | 14 | Bruno Mascolo | 25 | 1.90 |
| C | 16 | Amedeo Tessitori | 27 | 2.08 |
| PG | 18 | Matteo Spagnolo | 18 | 1.94 |
| F | 19 | Raphael Gaspardo | 28 | 2.07 |
| PF | 20 | Mattia Udom | 28 | 2.00 |
| SG | 22 | Giordano Bortolani | 20 | 1.93 |
| SG | 31 | Michele Vitali | 29 | 1.96 |
| C | 34 | Mouhamed Diouf | 20 | 1.90 |
| SF | 44 | Davide Alviti | 25 | 2.01 |
| PF | 45 | Nicola Akele | 24 | 2.03 |
| PF | 52 | Alessandro Lever | 22 | 2.03 |
| PG | 54 | Alessandro Pajola | 22 | 1.94 |

#### Notes

* Age on November 29, 2021

#### Legend

* not called
* did not play
* played
* starting 5

## Staff

After the EuroBasket 2022 qualification tournament the staff team was updated: Piero Bucchi, Paolo Galbiati and Riccardo Fois were hired as assistant coaches and replaced Massimo Maffezzoli and Paolo Conti. Only Emanuele Molin was confirmed amongst the assistant coaches.
| Position | Staff member | Age | Team |
| Head coach | Meo Sacchetti | 71 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Assistant coaches | Emanuele Molin | 64 | Aquila Trento |
| Assistant coaches | Piero Bucchi | 66 | Dinamo Sassari |
| Assistant coaches | Paolo Galbiati | 40 | Vanoli Cremona |
| Assistant coaches | Riccardo Fois | 37 | Arizona Wildcats |
| Physical trainer | Matteo Panichi | 52 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Physical trainer | Fabrizio Santolamazza | 39 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Physician | Sandro Senzameno | 72 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Orthopaedic | Raffaele Cortina | 64 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Osteopath | Roberto Oggioni | 49 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Osteopath | Francesco Ciallella | 44 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Team manager | Massimo Valle | 58 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Press officer | Francesco D'Aniello | 43 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Manager | Roberto Brunamonti | 65 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Video maker | Marco Cremonini | 36 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Equipment manager | Curzio Garofoli | 54 | Italian Basketball Federation |
| Equipment manager | Andrea Annessa | 50 | Italian Basketball Federation |
Source:

## Qualification
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Win % |
| EuroBasket qualification | 26 November 2021 | 4 July 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
Source: Competitions

### First round, Group H

The draw was held on 31 August 2021 in Mies, Switzerland. Italy was drawn into Group H with Russia, Netherlands and Iceland. These matches will be played in three windows from 26 to 29 November 2021, from 24 to 27 February 2022 and from 1 to 4 July 2022 with two games played by each team in every window.

#### @ Russia

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 77 | Aleksandr Khomenko | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| SG | 19 | Ivan Strebkov | 10 | 3 | 5 |
| SF | 25 | Anton Astapkovich | 21 | 5 | 2 |
| PF | 11 | Semyon Antonov | 17 | 2 | 2 |
| C | 58 | Sergei Toropov | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| C | 8 | Vladimir Ivlev | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| C | 10 | Alexander Gankevich | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| SF | 21 | Stanislav Ilnitsky | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| PF | 31 | Evgeny Valiev | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| SG | 35 | Vladislav Emchenko | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SG | 44 | Artem Komolov | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| PG | 88 | Vyacheslav Zaytsev | 7 | 2 | 8 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Zoran Lukić ||||||
| Russia | Italy |
| Russia | Statistics | Italy |
| 20/34 (58.2%) | 2-pt field goals | 12/29 (41.4%) |
| 12/21 (57.1%) | 3-pt field goals | 9/21 (42.9%) |
| 16/18 (88.9%) | Free throws | 27/30 (90.0%) |
| 8 | Offensive rebounds | 9 |
| 19 | Defensive rebounds | 14 |
| 27 | Total rebounds | 23 |
| 25 | Assists | 16 |
| 14 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 5 | Steals | 8 |
| 3 | Blocks | 1 |
| 27 | Fouls | 20 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 54 | Alessandro Pajola | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| SG | 7 | Stefano Tonut | 20 | 3 | 6 |
| SF | 19 | Raphael Gaspardo | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| PF | 45 | Nicola Akele | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| C | 16 | Amedeo Tessitori | 19 | 6 | 2 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PG | 4 | Leonardo Candi | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| SG | 12 | Diego Flaccadori | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| PG | 18 | Matteo Spagnolo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SG | 22 | Giordano Bortolani | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 34 | Mouhamed Diouf | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| SF | 44 | Davide Alviti | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| PF | 52 | Alessandro Lever | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Romeo Sacchetti ||||||

#### vs Netherland

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 54 | Alessandro Pajola | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| SG | 31 | Michele Vitali | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| SG | 7 | Stefano Tonut | 13 | 4 | 6 |
| PF | 45 | Nicola Akele | 18 | 6 | 0 |
| C | 16 | Amedeo Tessitori | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PG | 4 | Leonardo Candi | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SG | 12 | Diego Flaccadori | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| SF | 44 | Davide Alviti | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| C | 34 | Mouhamed Diouf | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| SF | 19 | Raphael Gaspardo | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| PG | 14 | Bruno Mascolo | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| SG | 22 | Mattia Udom | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Romeo Sacchetti ||||||
| Italy | Netherlands |
| Italy | Statistics | Netherlands |
| 19/39 (48.7%) | 2-pt field goals | 16/31 (51.6%) |
| 8/23 (34.8%) | 3-pt field goals | 11/25 (44.0%) |
| 13/15 (86.7%) | Free throws | 8/10 (80.0%) |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 6 |
| 22 | Defensive rebounds | 23 |
| 33 | Total rebounds | 29 |
| 19 | Assists | 16 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 18 |
| 8 | Steals | 7 |
| 0 | Blocks | 2 |
| 20 | Fouls | 20 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 5 | Leon Williams | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| SG | 90 | Charlon Kloof | 11 | 3 | 2 |
| SF | 6 | Worthy de Jong | 14 | 6 | 2 |
| PF | 9 | Mohamed Kherrazi | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| C | 33 | Jito Kok | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| SG | 0 | Yannick Franke | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| PG | 1 | Keye van der Vuurst de Vries | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| C | 2 | Joey van Zegeren | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| SG | 3 | Boy van Vliet | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| SF | 11 | Shane Hammink | 19 | 3 | 0 |
| PF | 13 | Roeland Schaftenaar | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| PF | 30 | Olaf Schaftenaar | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Maurizio Buscaglia ||||||