The italian national team will play two friendly matches against Croatia in October. The 13th and 14th of October Italy and Croatia will "fight" in Augusta (Sicily).
Another important decision was taken: the place selected to host the qualifying round to the Chinese Taipei World Championship 2004 will be Montesilvano. The group 2 (Italy, Finland, Belgium and France) will be played from 7/11/2003 to 10/11/2003.

Italian Market: the italian first division club Click Ufficio Genzano signed a new foreign player: the brazilian Everton Goncalves Pires, better known as Rosinha.
Rosinha comes from Ecb Sao Bernardo and will replace the brazilian Paulo Roxo "Paulinho", who is now the topscorer of portuguese league with Sporting (six goals in two matches).