Belgrade. The Italian team will soon depart for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade on March 1st for a three-day competition (March 3 – 5) for which the technical director of High Level Elio Locatelli has called on 26 athletes (15 men and 11 women). The Italian team will leave for Serbia on Wednesday morning from Fiumicino Airport (except the mid-distance runner Giulia Viola who will be arriving from Loughborough, Great Britain, where she trains). Meanwhile, European Athletics published the official list members registered in the event and the entry list of the long-distance runners (the French 2017 Top European candidate Jean-Pierre Bertrand is absent). Marcell Jacobs (8.07), Filippo Randazzo (8.05) and Andrew Howe (8.01) are the ones with the best seasonal credits. Veteran and captain of the expedition is the Olympic bronze medallist, Fabrizio Donato. The Guardia di Finanza agent with 40 years of experience in the hop-step-jump, this time participates in the capacity of a technical guide to Andrew Howe. This is his fifth trip to Euroindoor which boasts Gold Medal in Turin in 2009 and silver medal with an Italian record of 17.73 in Paris 2011. (9Colonne)