Article by Darius Stanescu – published on Thursday, June 5, 2025, 16:47 / Updated Thursday, June 5, 2025:58
The national team of Italy receives another blow after the injury of defender Matteo Gabbia, this time, on an offensive level. Moise Kean, the goalscorer Fiorentinawas injured at the Wednesday training of the national team before the matches with Norway and Moldova from the preliminaries for the World Championship.
The selection of Italy, Luciano Spaletti, will have a heavy mission in the first two matches in the preliminaries for the World Championship. It will not be able to count on Moses Kean because of an injury to the right thigh suffered at the training of the Wednesday national team.
Moise Kean, unavailable for the first two matches of Italy in the preliminaries for the 2026 World Championship
According to the release of the Italian Football Federation, Kean left the national team cantonment in order to follow the treatment he needs to recover.
The announcement was made through a press release issued by the Italian Football Federation.
“Moise Kean is unavailable for the next two matches due to a muscle contract in the right thigh appeared at Wednesday's training.
He left the canton to join his club and to determine the therapy protocol, ”the Italian Football Federation said in a statement.
Moise Kean, evolving into the Fiorentine T -shirt
Moise Kean was transferred to Fiorentina at the beginning of last season in Juventus. The striker managed in the “Viola” shirt the best season of his career, scoring 25 goals and achieving 3 decisive passes in 44 games for Fiorentina in all competitions.
The striker played in Paris Saint-Germain, where he turned out to be a goal machine, ending the season 2 in the goalscorers standings, with 19 goals.
The Italian Federation did not specify whether Kean (7 goals in 21 selections) will be replaced in the lot that will leave for Oslo on Thursday.
Italy, who has not participated in the last two editions of the World Cup, wants to debut with a victory in the qualification campaign at CM 2026, in the first match with Norway's Haaland.
At this moment, Norway is a leader in group I six points after two matches, two victories with Israel, score 4-2, and Moldova, score 5-0.
