Comments on: Azzurri 2010: What to Look Forward To…

By: footballholic

footballholic — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:47:46 +0000

Giovinco surely need a chance at the Azzurri

By: Soccer Italia

Soccer Italia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:40:46 +0000

Lippi needs to re-evaluate the talent he’s leaving behind like cassano, giovinco and foggia. He needs to lose peppe and quagliarella and play pazzini more.

Although with the players i have in mind well have a team full of midgets:

foggia
giovinco
cassano
rossi

…not the tallest of players.

By: Marco Pantanella

Marco Pantanella — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:55:17 +0000

Hey I’m all for giving Cassano another shot guys, but Lippi seems to be thinking he just can’t be trusted. Psychologically, he’s made great progress since his move to Sampdoria and finding a steady girlfriend, but past evidence of his “meltdowns” are too big of a risk for Lippi to take. Personally I can’t blame him.

Drawing a parallel here: Balotelli is another one with discipline problems, but at least (so far) he never threw his shirt at the referee or started crying by banging his fist onto the ground.

By: Mi3mo3

Mi3mo3 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:31:10 +0000

We gotta be careful not to jump the gun here. Like you said Marco Lippi knows what he’s doing (to a degree). Bring in some youngsters like Balotelli, Santon, and those excluded in previious call-ups (Cassano) but the veterans have to stay. Most of them are still very valid players: Buffon can go on playing for another 5-6 years, Camoranesi is still top qulaity.

Others though have to be seriously re-evaluated, starting with Toni and Zambrotta Chiellini, De Rossi & Pirlo were just out of form i hope.

By: Carlo181

Carlo181 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:25:42 +0000

I say get rid of the current squad except Buffon, De Rossi, Rossi and bring in the youngsters:

Buffon, Amelia, Abbiati Santon, Motta, Criscito, Cannavaro, Chiellini, Gamberini, Santocroce Pirlo, De Rossi, D’Agostino, Marchisio, Aquilani, Foggia, Giovinco, Montolivo Balotelli, Iaquinta, G.Rossi, Pazzini, Cassano

This is how our world cup team should look like in 2010.

By: Zissi

Zissi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:58:43 +0000

I’ll tell you one thing: while it’s easy to dismiss a tournament as “inconsequential” once you’re eliminated from it, I agree to some degree on what you said about teh confedereations cup. I was actually excited at the prospect of having a Spain-Brazil final, but if there’s anything the SPain-USA match showed us it’s the even the European champs can fall flat on their face.

For Italy, I’d say their early elimination is a good omen. Historically teams who have won the tournament didn’t fare too well at the WC the following year. One thing Lippi needs to do about his team is inject some creativity. That means suck up the pride and call up Cassano already, or anyone else who can dribble the ball. Bring in Giovinco and Balotelli and get rid of this static passing/target-man tactic with Gila/Luca Toni. Time to turn a new leaf for Italy.