Italy kick off their European Championship title defence against Albania on Saturday as a new-look team try to rebuild the reputation of one of the world’s most important football nations. 

Luciano Spalletti’s Italy take on Albania in Dortmund in the first of three clashes in a fiendishly difficult Group B which also contains Spain and Croatia. 
And those two later fixtures make Saturday’s hugely important, as with the four best third-place finishers in the six groups reaching the knockout stages, a win over Albania would give Italy a great chance of going through.