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

It’s been a while since the last update, but the Winter break had most local championships on hold anyway. Except the EPL, they play tirelessly all year long apparently.

Based on Gazzetta’s info, there are currently 26 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 14 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.
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ENGLAND
Player	Team	Opp.	mins.	Contrib.	Score
Rolando Bianchi	Man City	@Newcastle	2	/	2-0
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	@Fulham	N/A	/	2-1
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	Gretna	73	/	3-0
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GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	NEXT ROUND	IN	FEBR.	/
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	Zaragoza	90	/	2-0
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	@Espanyol	90	/	0-3
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	@Deportivo	90	/	3-0
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	@Mallorca	(bench)	/	2-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Betis	/	/	3-0
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Betis	90	/	3-0
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	Levante	90	/	0-0
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	Almeria	90	/	1-1
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	@Valencia	(bench)	/	0-0
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	@Valencia	90	/	0-0
Christian Riganò	Levante	@Valencia	N/A	/	0-0
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Créteil (CUP)	90	/	4-0
Flavio Roma	Monaco	@Brest (CUP)	(bench)	/	3-1
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	Heracles	31	/	1-0
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BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	@Anderlecht	90	/	2-3
Alessandro Pistone	Mons	@Anderlecht	90	/	2-3
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SWITZERLAND
Stefano Razzetti	St. Gallen	SEASON OVER	/	/	/
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	SEASON OVER	/	/	/
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POLAND
Stefano Napoleoni	Widzew Łódź	NEXT ROUND	IN	FEBR.	/
Joseph Oshadogan	Widzew Łódź	NEXT ROUND	IN	FEBR.	/
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UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	NEXT ROUND	IN	MARCH	/
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	SEASON OVER	/	/	/

Heroes of the week

This week no goalscorers, sad. No big protagonists either, even more sad.

Giuseppe Rossi‘s back to full fitness after his 3-month long injury, but his scoring efficiency still has to return to good levels. He can’t help prevent Villareal’s severe 3-0 loss to Espanyol this week. Meanwhile Rolando Bianchi is back warming City’s bench, and gets only 2 minutes of play against Newcastle. Can’t really blame Eriksson, his team keeps winning…

To be noted that Marco Storari‘s loan to Levante was terminated by Cagliari, so the Italian goalkeeper is on his way back to Sardinia. Also note the appearance of Alessandro Pistone (ex-Inter, Newcastle and Everton player) who recently signed with Belgian club Mons, after a succesful trial in early December. He’ll be joining up with defender Roberto Mirri, already at the club since 2004. 

Oh and if you want more anecdotes on the Mons club, they also feature Wilfried Dalmat, Stephane‘s brother (yeah, the one that played for Inter Milan and now plays at Bordeaux). It’s a small world ain’t it…

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