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Alessandro Circati played a full game and scored for Parma in a 1-2 loss to Roma in Serie A.

Ajdin Hrustic played a full game, scored and recieved a Fotmob player of the match award in a 4-1 win over NAC Breda in Round 1 of the KNVB Cup. Max Balard played a full game for NAC Breda.

Anthony Carter was not in the squad for Santa Clara in a Portugese League Cup Quarter-Final.

Marco Tilio was an unused sub for Rapid Wien in a 1-0 win over Second Tier SKN St Polten in the Austrian Cup Round of 16.

Musa Toure started, missed a penalty an was subbed at half time in a 0-0 (2-4 Penalty) loss to Second Tier Esbjerg in the DBU Pokalen Round of 16. Mohammed Toure came on at half time, Paul Izzo was an unused sub and Oliver Jones was not in the squad for Randers.

Jack Iredale played a full game for Hibernian in a 0-1 loss to Rangers in the Scottish Top Flight. Martin Boyle came on in the 64th minute for Hibernian.

Apostolos Stamatelopolous came on in the 64th minute and had an assist, Johnny Koutroumbis played a full game and Oscar Preistman was an unused sub for Motherwell in a 2-0 win over Dundee United. Zach Sapsford played a full game for Dundee United and Ryan Strain was not in the squad.

Cameron Devlin played a full game and Callum Nieuwenhof was not in the squad for Hearts in a 2-2 draw with St Mirren. Keanu Baccus started and was subbed in the 75th minute for St Mirren.

Nick Milanovic, Kuisni Yengi and Nick Suman were unused subs for Aberdeen in a 1-0 win over Kilmarnock in the Scottish Top Flight.

Fran Karacic started and was subbed in the 106th minute for Hadjuk Split in a 0-0 (4-2 Penalty) win over Second Tier Cibalia in the Croatian FA Cup. Anthony Kalik started and was subbed in the 62nd minute for Hadjuk.

Anthony Pavlesic was not in the squad for NK Rudes in the Croatia Cup.

Aaron Gurd was not in the squad for Kanchanaburi Power in the Thai FA Cup.
 
17 minutes in volpato sucking in some deep breaths. Wonder if he is 100 percent match fit
 
Gps tracker has him covering the fourth most ground on either team.
Only 4.6 km by half time mind u. I suspect seri a has less running than other leagues?
 
Awer Mabil came on in the 5th minute for CD Castellon in their 1-0 Copa del Rey first round loss to Antoniano.
 
Frankly Speaking said:
Volpato will not play for Italy. It would be a smart move for him to declare for Australia NOW.

TBH I don't think either he or Triantis are missed.
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I don't think it is as much about split allegiances for Volpato but more his career in Italy. He grew up here, my guess is if randomly asked where he is from he would say he is Australian. But he has connection to Italy and there is a prestige making it for them that doesn't exist about playing for us (in the football world).

Having said that, my take is the real reason he declined the call up was about establishing a Serie A career. Italian clubs have big squads and a big bench. If you want to waste away, a Serie bench is the place for it. My other impression is there is an even more negative view of traveling to play for Aus in Italian football than other European countries (not sure if that is fair). And a real quick way to find yourself on that long bench, is to fly off to the other side of the world for something they think is a waste of time.
 
Cunningstunt said:
I don't think it is as much about split allegiances for Volpato but more his career in Italy. He grew up here, my guess is if randomly asked where he is from he would say he is Australian. But he has connection to Italy and there is a prestige making it for them that doesn't exist about playing for us (in the football world).

Having said that, my take is the real reason he declined the call up was about establishing a Serie A career. Italian clubs have big squads and a big bench. If you want to waste away, a Serie bench is the place for it. My other impression is there is an even more negative view of traveling to play for Aus in Italian football than other European countries (not sure if that is fair). And a real quick way to find yourself on that long bench, is to fly off to the other side of the world for something they think is a waste of time.
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Doesn't appear to be the case for Circati though. Having said that, he has established himself at Parma. If rumours are correct they (Parma) may be looking for a payday by selling him to a bigger club, so they want him to be in their starting eleven.
 
Cunningstunt said:
I don't think it is as much about split allegiances for Volpato but more his career in Italy. He grew up here, my guess is if randomly asked where he is from he would say he is Australian. But he has connection to Italy and there is a prestige making it for them that doesn't exist about playing for us (in the football world).

Having said that, my take is the real reason he declined the call up was about establishing a Serie A career. Italian clubs have big squads and a big bench. If you want to waste away, a Serie bench is the place for it. My other impression is there is an even more negative view of traveling to play for Aus in Italian football than other European countries (not sure if that is fair). And a real quick way to find yourself on that long bench, is to fly off to the other side of the world for something they think is a waste of time.
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Sadly, I think this is spot on.
Hopefully once he ages out of the Italian youth setup and moves away from the Italian leagues he'll be better positioned to become involved.
 
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Robbos said:
I understand Triantis, but Volpato has not align to any country yet.
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I don't think this is correct. Volpato is presently tied to Italy because has played for them in official competition at U19 and U21 levels.

If he wants to represent Australia at some point in the future, he will need to request a change of Association to Australia. Similar to what Triantis did when he decided to change Association to Greece.
 
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