Serbia and Italy have named their 20-man squads for Sunday’s European zone world cup qualification match in Belgrade.

"This will be the biggest challenge in everyone’s career, both the players and for me,” said a sobre Serbian technical director Lee Crooks. “We are all looking forward to the opportunity of facing some great players with a vast amount of experience from the Australian competition. For us it is about our performance as both individuals and as a team. We let ourselves down a little bit last week against Lebanon, worrying about the scoreboard to much in the first half and not completing our sets which meant we had a lot of defence to do."

The task has been made even more daunting with Carlo Napolitano able to call up Vic Mauro, fresh from Manly’s grand final win in Australia. Crooks calls up Vuk Tvrdišić and Radovan Tajsić, replacing the dropped Milan Šušnjara and Marko Milenković.

SERBIA
Adam Nedić (Belconnen United Scholars RLFC), Danilo Delić (Dorćol), Vladan Kikanović (Dorćol), Dejan Lukenić (Dorćol), Stefan Nedeljković (Dorćol), Ivan Šušnjara (Dorćol), Vuk Tvrdišić (Dorćol), Nikša Unković (Dorćol), Dalibor Vukanović (capt.) (Dorćol), Ilija Radan (Hemel Hempstead RLFC), Soni Radovanović (Lescure), Lazar Živković (Niš), Austen Novaković (Siddal ARLFC), Radovan Tajsić (Radnički Nova Pazova), Slaviša Zekić (Radnički Nova Pazova), Miloš Ćalić (Red Star Belgrade), Zoran Pešić (Red Star Belgrade), Nebojša Živanović (Red Star Belgrade), Aleksandar Aleksić (Stari Grad), Mirko Božović (Stari Grad)

ITALY
Matthew Sands (Grifons PD); Christophe Calegari (Lezignan); Dom Nasso (Monto); Matt Parrata (Mt Isa); Cameron Ciraldo (Newcastle Knights); Ryan Ghietti (Northern Pride); Joel Riethmuller (North Queensland Cowboys); Alex Ranieri (North Sydney Bears); Ryan Tramonte (St Patricks Blacktown); Anthony Minichiello (c) (Sydney Roosters); Ray Nasso, Ben Falcone (Wentworth); Rhys Lennarduzzi (Wests); Dean Vicelich, Rob Quitadamo (XIII del Ducato); Josh Mantellato (Wyong), Vitalino Mauro (Manly Sea Eagles), Ben Stewart (Windsor Wolves), Jonathan Marcinczak (West Bowling), Fabizio Ciaurra (XIII Ducato)