Agent Claudio Pasqualin has slammed talk of Napoli midfielder Allan being capped by Italy.

Italy coach Roberto Mancini is interested in the Brazilian.

Pasqualin told TMW: "It is demeaning to think only of being able to entrust the representation of the fatherland to a stranger discarded by his.

"Marques Louriero Allan is a great player who is just wrong to be Brazilian and not Italian.

"So why not select for our national team Ronaldo who moreover has a more captivating and even religious name and sounds more Italian than Marques Louriero Allan? And then we wonder why our young people are not valued or even do not find a place in the team."