Italian wingers, certainly not tackled (7)
I believe the answer is:
genoese
'italian' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'wingers certainly not tackled' is the wordplay.
'wingers' becomes 'geese' (I've seen this before).
'certainly not' becomes 'no'.
'tackled' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'geese' going around 'no' is 'GENOESE'.
(Other definitions for genoese that I've seen before include "people like Columbus" , "from Italian city" , "From an Italian port" , "From the capital of the Liguria region of Italy" , "from northern Italy" .)