Continuing my weekly article inspired by Gazzetta dello Sport, here are the performances of all Italian soccer players operating in foreign European leagues.

<

Based on Gazzetta’s info, there are currently 27 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 15 of them stepped on the field this week-end.

The table below includes the team the player belongs to, their opponents for the week, the number of minutes they played, their contribution (goal, assist), and the final score of the game.
.

ENGLAND
Player	Team	Opp.	mins.	Contrib.	Score
Rolando Bianchi	Man City	Reading	(injd.)	/	2-1
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	@Derby	90	/	0-2
.
SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	Falkirk	82	/	3-0
.
GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	Wolfsburg	90	/	2-1
.
SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	@Murcia	90	/	1-1
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	Almeria	(injd.)	/	1-1
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	Valladolid	(stands)	/	4-3
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	Recreativo	64	/	3-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Mallorca	(injd.)	/	1-2
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Mallorca	(bench)	/	1-2
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	@Santander	(injd)	/	0-1
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	@Barcelona	90	/	0-3
Marco Storari	Levante	Betis	90	/	4-3
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	Betis	90	/	4-3
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	Betis	84	1 goal	4-3
Christian Riganò	Levante	Betis	(susp.)	/	4-3
.
FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Rennes	90	/	2-0
Flavio Roma	Monaco	@Toulouse	90	/	0-0
.
HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	Willem II	(bench)	/	2-0
.
BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Wetteren	120	1 goal	2-2
.
SWITZERLAND
Stefano Razzetti	St. Gallen	(eliminated)	/	/	CUP
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	Kriens	(bench)	/	3-0
.
POLAND
Stefano Napoleoni	Widzew Łódź	@Gornik	(injd.)	/	1-1
Joseph Oshadogan	Widzew Łódź	@Gornik	90	1 goal	1-1
Roberto Cantoro	Wisła Kraków	@Z.Sosnowiec	90	/	3-1
.
UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	Naftovik	60	/	1-1
.
RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	/	/	/	PAUSE

Heroes of the week

Damiano Tommasi is back with a vengeance, just like the entire Levante team. Los Granotes are having a tough season in La Liga so far, but they managed to earn 3 points today thanks in particular to Tommasi’s efforts and the goal the ex-Roma midfielder scored in the 1^st half.

Other players deserving kudos this week include Roberto Mirri (the Mons captain played 120 minutes and scored a vital goal in the 2-2 cup draw against Wetteren, won on penalties by Mons) as well as Joseph Oshadogan, the ex-Reggina defender of Tanzanian descent who is now playing for Widzew Łódź in Poland.

Which by the way brings me to the addition of a new European league in our “Italian Players Around the World” weekly article: Poland. In addition of Oshadogan, we’ll be bringing you updates on the performances of Stefano Napoleoni (Widzew Łódź) and Roberto Cantoro (Wisła Kraków).

Posted in Italian Players Around the World |

This entry was posted on Monday, November 26th, 2007 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Italian Players Around the World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.