Gori recovered from knee surgery in time to be called up to the Italian team for the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Ravenna. Subsequently, Gori was the joint second top scorer of the 2015 World Cup and helped Italy win the gold medal at that year's Mediterranean Beach Games, Italy's first major honour since 2005. In 2016, Gori was voted as one of the three best players in the world at the annual Beach Soccer Stars awards and won the Pallone Azzurro (Blue Ball) award for best Italian player of the year bestowed by the Italian Football Federation. His biggest individual accolade came six months later at the 2017 World Cup, where he won the Golden Boot (top scorer) with 17 goals and his 12 goals during the 2018 EBSL season helped Italy secure their first European crown in 13 years, ending 2018 on the verge of 200 goals for "Gli Azzurri". A year later, Gori was once again named one of the world's best three players and named amongst the dream team for 2019 at the Beach Soccer Stars awards and ended the season with a silver medal at the 2019 World Cup, winning the Golden Boot once again, the first player to win consecutive top scorer awards since Madjer in 2005 and 2006. He was also named as one of the tournament's top ten best players, out of the 192 participants.