Giorgio Chiellini

Juventus coach Antonio Conte has complained about impolite behaviour by his Italy counterpart Cesare Prandelli after defender Giorgio Chiellini was called up for tomorrow’s friendly against Spain.

Chiellini, one of seven Juventus players in the squad, has not played for three weeks because of a calf muscle injury and the Serie A champions said that they had planned to continue with his recovery this week.

“I expected at least to get a call from Prandelli to ask me how he was,” Conte told reporters.

“I find this type of behaviour to be not very polite and not very educated. We give so many players to the national team and then they do this to you and I don’t think it’s fair.”

Conte said that Chiellini was on the bench against Milan but there had been no intention of fielding him.

“Chiellini has not played for three weeks, he started training again on Friday and I brought him to Milan so he could savour the pitch but I didn’t think of using him.

“I dislike seeing him called up and it annoys me... they ask us so often for co-operation and we give them a lot, because we supply a lot of players,” he said.

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Conte has been named coach of the year in Italy for the second time in a row. He beat Fioren-tina’s Vincenzo Montella to the accolade by three votes.

Coaches in Serie A and Serie B vote on the award, which is known as the Panchina d’Oro.

Inter’s former Napoli boss Walter Mazzarri finished third.