{"id":1680346,"date":"2022-10-09T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680346"},"modified":"2022-10-09T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:51:28","slug":"soccer-holders-italy-face-england-in-euro-2024-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-holders-italy-face-england-in-euro-2024-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Holders Italy face England in Euro 2024 qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-holders-italy-face-england-in-euro-2024-qualifying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) \u2013     Defending champions Italy will face England in their Euro 2024 qualifying group, a repeat of last year\u2019s tournament final, following the draw on Sunday in Frankfurt\u2019s Festhalle.<\/p>\n<p>The Italians, who beat England 3-2 on penalties at London\u2019s Wembley stadium in 2021 to lift the trophy will also play North Macedonia, who prevented Roberto Mancini\u2019s side from reaching the World Cup, and Malta in Group C.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was sure we would end up getting either England or France, but that\u2019s fine,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cIt\u2019s a workable group. There won\u2019t be any simple games but they are all still to be played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Group B looks equally difficult with former champions Netherlands and current world champions France drawn alongside 2004 Euro winners Greece, Ireland and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 53 national associations were included in the draw with Germany already through as hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Russia were not included following their invasion of Ukraine and the suspension of all Russian teams by European governing body UEFA.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus, which has supported Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, was included.<\/p>\n<p>They will play Switzerland, Romania, Kosovo, Israel and Andorra in Group I.<\/p>\n<p>This season\u2019s Premier League top scorer Erling Haaland\u2019s Norway will face three-times champions Spain in Group A, along with Scotland, Georgia and Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe avoid France, England and Serbia from pot two,\u201d said Norway coach Stale Solbakken. \u201cWe have to be satisfied with that, but we could also have been luckier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying group matches will be played from March to November 2023 and the playoffs will take place in March, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group qualify directly with the remaining three spots decided in the playoffs in March, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-team finals will be held in 10 stadiums across Germany.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, Additional reporting by Philip O\u2019Connor, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-holders-italy-face-england\/attachment\/euro-2024-qualifying-draw\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9804C-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9804C-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-holders-italy-face-england\/attachment\/euro-2024-qualifying-draw-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9804D-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9804D-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) \u2013 Defending champions Italy will face England in their Euro 2024 qualifying group, a repeat of last year\u2019s tournament final, following the draw on Sunday in Frankfurt\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}