This was the first tournament in which a unified Germany took part and also the first major tournament to have the players’ names printed on their backs. It spoke volumes that, with qualification from Group A already secured by the closing stages of the game against Wales in Rome, Mancini used his four remaining substitutions to give Bryan Cristante, Giacomo Raspadori, cheap football jerseys Gaetano Castrovilli and even reserve goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu a taste of tournament football. He played all 120 minutes against Austria in the last-16, soccer jersey store near me even setting up Matteo Pessina’s winning goal with neat hold-up play in the box. He was famously an unused substitute at Italia ’90, and acrimoniously pulled out of Italy’s squad for the World Cup in the United States four years later, soccer outfits having been demoted to at least third in the striking pecking order behind Roberto Baggio and Gianfranco Zola.