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Our weekly Italian Players Around the World segment is back!!

Inspired by Gazzetta dello Sport, here are the performances of all Italian soccer players operating in foreign European leagues (top divisions only). There are currently 33 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 14 of them stepped on the field this week-end.

The table below includes the team of the player, their opponents for this week, the time in minutes they played, their match contribution in goal(s) or assist(s), and the final score of the game.

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ENGLAND
Player	Team	Opp.	Time	Contrib.	Score
Carlo Cudicini	Tottenham	(elim. FA Cup)	/	/	/
David Di Michele	West Ham	Boro	90	/	1-1
Andrea Dossena	Liverpool	(elim. FA Cup)	/	/	/
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	Rangers	/	/	0-0
Manuel Pascali	Kilmarnock	Hibernian	90	/	1-1
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GERMANY
Andrea Barzagli	Wolfsburg	@Eintracht	90	/	2-0
Cristian Zaccardo	Wolfsburg	@Eintracht	(bench)	/	2-0
Massimo Oddo	Bayern M.	@Hertha	(susp.)	/	1-2
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	@Hertha	35	/	1-2
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	@Sp. Gijón	90	/	4-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	@Espanyol	(bench)	/	2-0
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	Malaga	15	/	1-1
Giuseppe Rossi	Villarreal	@Santander	90	/	1-1
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	Le Havre	90	/	3-1
Flavio Roma	Monaco	Marseille	(injd)	/	0-1
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	@PSV	(bench)	/	2-2
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BELGIUM
Francesco Migliore	Mons	Kortrijk	(susp.)	/	1-1
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Kortrijk	13	/	1-1
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SWITZERLAND
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	Bellinzona	(bench)	/	0-0
Pasquale Sbarra	Grasshoppers	@Basel	/	/	0-0
Giuseppe Aquaro	Aarau	Neuchatel	/	/	0-0
Jacopo Ravasi	Lucerne	Young Boys	/	/	2-3
Carlo Zotti	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	90	/	0-0
Davide Belotti	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	/	/	0-0
Lorenzo Bucchi	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	(bench)	/	0-0
Luigi Beghetto	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	66	/	0-0
Paolo Carbone	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	/	/	0-0
Andrea Conti	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	90	/	0-0
Matteo Gritti	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	/	/	0-0
Iacopo La Rocca	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	/	/	0-0
Angelo Raso	Bellinzona	@FC Zürich	15	/	0-0
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TURKEY
Morgan De Sanctis	Galatasaray	@Antalyaspor	90	/	0-1
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	/	SEASON	OVER	/

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Heroes of the week

Not really any heroes this week, at least in terms of point-earning feats (i.e. goals or assists). Just players playing (that is what players do don’t they) and some of them playing well.

Among these, Fabio Grosso (on a good run after the good goalscoring performance against Brazil), Fabio Cannavaro (didn’t have a lot to do really in Madrid’s 4-0 win over Gijón, but it’s nice not to concede any goals), and Giuseppe Rossi (we’re used to seeing his name by now: no goals, but plenty of shots on target & good passes).

No luck for Luca Toni this week unfortunately, who played only the first 35 minutes of Bayern Munich’s fixture. LucaBomber picked up a knock in the first half and was forced to witness his side’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Hertha Berlin (and subsequent demotion to 4th place in the Bundesliga) from the sidelines.

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