Italy will kick off their title defence at Euro 2024 against Albania but also faces higher-ranked Spain and Croatia in a group stage fixture. Luciano Spalletti's team will be without Juventus midfielder Manuel Locatelli and the veteran striker Ciro Immobile in Germany.
Following the draw, Italy will need to get through two one-leg matchups to advance in a newly devised playoff system.
Italy lose further three players as Alessandro Bastoni and Davide Calabria are both injured while fellow defender Cristiano Biraghi has returned home because of personal reasons.
Italy's injury problems continued to pile up as captain Giorgio Chiellini became the latest player to withdraw from the squad on Wednesday ahead of its final World Cup qualifiers.
Ferran Torres scored two goals in the first half for Spain, the second coming after Leonardo Bonucci was sent off for a second yellow card three minutes before the break.
Mancini named 34 players in his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria, Switzerland and Lithuania.
The Italian football team arrived back in Rome on Monday after winning the Euro 2020 against England in a penalty shootout on Sunday.
Italians celebrated the Euro 2020 title as a new beginning for a country that's been yearning to return to normalcy after being hit hard and long by the coronavirus pandemic.
Italy won the European Championship for the second time by beating England 3-2 on penalties.
Queen Elizabeth wished the English team luck for its Euro 2020 final against Italy.
Whatever happens in Sunday’s final against England at Wembley Stadium, Mancini wants his players to continue having fun.
The European Championship final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium on Sunday has all the makings of a tight and tense title match.
The hard-working Italy midfielder had missed Euro 2016 because of a groin problem that needed surgery.
Back in Rome, supporters packed into piazzas and descended on the ancient Colosseum, speeding past on motorbikes waving flags even as midnight was approaching once Spain had been beaten on Tuesday.
A dash of Italian panache completed a 4-2 penalty-shootout win over Spain at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, setting up a title match against either England or Denmark back at the same stadium on Sunday.
The Italians: tough, defensively strong, cynical. Winners by whatever means possible — or so it was widely perceived in Spain anyway.
Spinazzola injured the tendon in his left leg in Italy’s 2-1 win over Belgium on Friday in the quarterfinals of the European Championship.
La Roja is on an unbeaten streak stretching back to October, a run of 13 games. brings an even better run of form to Wembley Stadium — a national-record 32 matches unbeaten
Nicolò Barella and Lorenzo Insigne scored a goal each while Leonardo Spinazzola make a key second-half block to give Italy a 2-1 win over Belgium and a spot in the European Championship semifinals.
Matteo Pessina's goal-scoring celebration — diving face-first on the turf with his arms nearly flat by his side — has become quite a sensation back home in Italy.
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