Sunday 26th August Genoa plays the first match of the new Serie A season at home against Cagliari. One week later we play in Catania the 2nd match. This season also the derby returns on 18th November and 14th April.
As expected after the dramatic end of last season the players-selection has changed a lot. Hereby the present situation with the new players in capitals completely with the numbers of the shirts for the match against Hellas Verona in the Coppa Italia next Saturday-evening in Marassi:
Goalkeepers:
1 Frey, 63 STILLO (youth Genoa)
Defenders:
2 VELAZQUEZ (Independiente, Arg.), 3 Bovo, 5 Granqvist, 13 Antonelli, 21 CANINI (Cagliari), 24 Moretti, 25 VON BERGEN (Cesena), 31 SAMPIRISI (Genoa youth), 40 TOMOVIC (Lecce)
Midfielders:
7 Rossi, 8 Biondini, 10 MERKEL (Milan), 14 SEYMOUR (Catania), 20 Mesto, 28 TOZSER (Genk, Bel.), 33 Kucka, 89 ANSELMO (Palmeiras, Bra.), 91 BERTOLACCI (Lecce)
Strikers:
9 Gilardino, 11 Jankovic, 17 IMMOBILE (Pescara), 18 PISCITELLA (Roma), 19 Jorquera, 57 Zé Eduardo
Before the playersmarket closes at Friday 31st Augustus there surely will be changes in the present team, that now has 26 members including 13 new players.