Cannavaro with the Azzurri.

The main changes on Italian national team coach Roberto Donadoni's teamsheet for the 2008 European Championship qualifying matches against Ukraine and Georgia are the absences of strikers Antonio Cassano (Real Madrid) and Alberto Gilardino (Milan).

On the other hand, World Cup champions Alessandro del Piero (Juventus), Luca Toni (Fiorentina), Vicenzo Iaquinta (Udinese) and Marco Materazzi (Inter), return to the 25-man Italian squad. Materazzi returns after a two-match suspension. According to Spanish news agency Efe, Real Madrid's Fabio Cannavaro and Barcelona's Gianlucca Zambrotta, make their return to the Azzurri.

The following is Donadoni's teamsheet for the 2008 European Championship qualifying matches against Ukraine -Rome, October 7- and Georgia -Tbilisi, October 11:

Goalkeepers: Christian Abbiati (Torino), Marco Amelia (Livorno), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus).
Defenders: Andrea Barzagli and Cristian Zaccardo (Palermo), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Fabio Grosso and Marco Materazzi (Inter), Alessandro Nesta (Milan), Massimo Oddo (Lazio), Manuel Pasqual (Fiorentina), Gianluca Zambrotta (Barcelona).
Midfielders: Mauro German Camoranesi (Juventus), Gennaro Delvecchio (Sampdoria), Daniele De Rossi and Simone Perrotta (Roma), Ivan Gennaro Gattuso and Andrea Pirlo (Milan), Stefano Mauri (Lazio).
Forwards: Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus), David Di Michele (Palermo), Antonio Di Natale and Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese), Filippo Inzaghi (Milan), Luca Toni (Fiorentina).