The Italian Antonio Cassano has not featured for the national team since being left out of the team that could manage only a 1-1 draw with the Dutch. Cassano has been criticised by several high-profile managers like Fabio Capello for getting involved in a clash with the Inter Milan manager Andrea Stramaccioni.
However, the Italian manager Prandelli has said that the international career for the 30-year-old is not over yet. He has insisted that this is just a break from international football, and Cassano will soon be in his plans for the future squads.
After doing extremely well at the Euro 2012, Prandelli has come in for criticism over the last few months due to the poor form of the national team. Italy are under a lot of pressure to deliver a major trophy for the first time since 2006. However, Prandelli has also had to deal with the ageing squad. He has brought in the likes of Mario Balotelli and Stephan El Shaarawy, who could be the future of the Italian team for the next decade. Prandelli has said that players like El Shaarawy have been discovered only because he left out Cassano. Cassano was recently left out of the Inter Milan squad after a bust up with the manager, but he was a substitute against Bologna during the weekend.
"The Azzurri story is not absolutely over for him. But at the moment, I have to develop the team. If Cassano were there, I would never have discovered Stephan El Shaarawy. Antonio is doing well at Inter and for him, just as for others, the door will always be open. Inter had begun the season with the aim of the Champions League places, and I think that goal is still in full swing," said Prandelli ahead of the World Cup qualifying matches.