Official: Calò wins Serie A Player of the Month after Italy snub

Official: Calò wins Serie A Player of the Month after Italy snub Frosinone midfielder Giacomo Calò has been awarded the Serie A player of the month for October, but his performances were not enough to earn him a call-up to Roberto Mancini’s Italy national team squad. Official: Calò crowned Serie A player of the month for October Calò has been awarded the Serie A player of the month award for October after netting three goals from midfield from his four league appearances during that period. He found the net in three consecutive games at the back end of October, against Sassuolo, Atalanta and Lecce, and then once against Torino for the fourth game in a row on November 1. ITALY – NOVEMBER 01: Giacomo Calò of Frosinone Calcio celebrates with his teammate Gabriele Calvani after scoring goal 2-0 during the Serie A match between Frosinone Calcio and Torino FC at Stadio Benito Stirpe on November 01, 2026 in Italy. (Photo by Giuseppe Bellini/Getty Images) He saw off competition from Como’s Anastasios Douvikas, Lazio’s Gustav Isaksen, Atalanta’s Nikola Krstovic, Napoli’s Scott McTominay and Inter’s Marcus Thuram to claim the prize for October. He is the second player to win the Serie A player of the month award in 2026-27, following Roma’s Donyell Malen, who won the prize for the period spanning August and September. Despite his impressive performances at the beginning of the 2026-27 season, now up to five goals from 11 appearances in the Italian top flight, the 29-year-old Calò was not selected for the Italy national team squad for November’s fixtures against France and Belgium. His agent did not take too kindly to the snub, accusing Mancini of showing a lack of logic in his selections , adding: “I hope the omission isn’t the death of meritocracy.” Coach Roberto Mancini during an Italy training session (@azzurri) Mancini has since had an opportunity to respond and explained that he felt this was not the right camp to test uncapped ‘29 or 30-year-olds’, instead giving opportunities to a number of youngsters, including Alessandro Romano, Issa Doumbia and Niccolo Pisilli in midfield. “Calò is one of the players doing well. Frosinone have 3-4 players who are good. We can’t call players who are already 29 or 30 right now. When we need them, we’ll do it, but not because his agent tells us so,” Mancini explained. “Now we need to find different solutions and try to make young players earn experience”