Italy's coach Antonio Conte gestures during their Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match against Croatia at the San Siro stadium in Milan November 16, 2014. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
ROME (Reuters) - Italy coach Antonio Conte believes that players of Italian descent should be free to decide whether they want to play for the "azzurri". Conte's latest call-ups, Argentine-born Franco Vazquez and Brazilian-born Eder, have caused a stir in Italy even though both players possess Italian passports.
"I'm not the first (to call-up a player of Italian descent) and I won't be last," Conte told a news conference on Monday.
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