Italian Players Around the World (8/12)

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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 32 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 14 of them stepped on the field this week-end.

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 Chelsea @Bolton
(bench)
/
2-0
David Di Michele West Ham Tottenham
17
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0-2
Andrea Dossena Liverpool @Blackburg
(bench)
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3-1
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati Celtic @Hibs
/
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0-2
Manuel Pascali Kilmarnock @Aberdeen
/
/
pp.
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GERMANY
Andrea Barzagli Wolfsburg Hannover
90
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2-1
Cristian Zaccardo Wolfsburg Hannover
90
1 GOAL
2-1
Massimo Oddo Bayern M. Hoffenheim
90
/
2-1
Luca Toni Bayern M. Hoffenheim
90
1 GOAL
2-1
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro Real Madrid Sevilla
90
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3-4
Enzo Maresca Sevilla @Real Madrid
(injd)
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4-3
Emiliano Moretti Valencia Barcelona
(injd)
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0-4
Giuseppe Rossi Villarreal Getafe
90
1 GOAL
3-3
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso Lyon @Nantes
90
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1-2
Elia Legati Monaco Sochaux
/
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1-2
Flavio Roma Monaco Sochaux
(injd)
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1-2
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè AZ Alkmaar Heracles
1
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2-0
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BELGIUM
Francesco Migliore Mons Dender
90
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5-2
Roberto Mirri Mons Dender
(injd)
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5-2
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SWITZERLAND
Andrea Guatelli FC Zürich @Bellinzona
(bench)
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3-0
Jacopo Ravasi Lucerne @Sion
/
/
pp.
Davide Belotti Bellinzona FC Zürich
/
/
0-3
Lorenzo Bucchi Bellinzona FC Zürich
90
/
0-3
Paolo Carbone Bellinzona FC Zürich
/
/
0-3
Andrea Conti Bellinzona FC Zürich
90
/
0-3
Alessio Ferrazza Bellinzona FC Zürich
/
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0-3
Matteo Gritti Bellinzona FC Zürich
(bench)
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0-3
Iacopo La Rocca Bellinzona FC Zürich
/
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0-3
Giuseppe Miccolis Bellinzona FC Zürich
(bench)
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0-3
Angelo Raso Bellinzona FC Zürich
90
/
0-3
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TURKEY
Morgan De Sanctis Galatasaray @Ankaragucu
90
/
3-0
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli Lok. Moscow /
SEASON
OVER
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Heroes of the week

We have a treat this week. Ok, so Toni and Rossi are still doing great, scoring goals, winning games for their team, what else is new?

Cristian Zaccardo, age 26I’ll tell you what else! Cristian Zaccardo! Remember him? Scored that own goal in 2006 vs. USA? God, who could forget that. It promoted Grosso to a starting eleven position (“thank God”, we’ll all agree) and virtually sent little young Cristian back to oblivion (pretty much).

Well, Cristian can rejoice this week-end because he scored his first goal ever in the Bundesliga. Not only that, but the goal helped his team Wolfsburg earn a victory vs. Hannover! And from what I hear, post-game celebrations with his buddy and roommate Barzagli (another one of the Azzurri rejects) were pretty wild. Elle est pas belle la vie?

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Luca Toni, age 30Remaining in Germany, there’s always Luca Toni to keep us entertained. In the much-anticipated clash with Hoffenheim on Friday, the ex-Fiorentina striker provided once again Bayern’s match-winning goal, and that in the 90th minute of play. Not particularly his best in terms of style, but certainly worth its weight in gold for its importance.

Some may say LucaBomber’s back to his full goalscoring glory (he scored 5 goals in Bayern’s last 5 outings), but others may point to the fact that before his goal Friday, Toni had spent the preceding 90 minutes squandering one chance after the other.

Ah, these naysayers… they are just everywhere aren’t they?

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Giuseppe Rossi, age 21And finally, because Spain is right next to Germany on the map (well, not really, but for our purposes it often is), we can only renew the mention of Giuseppe Rossi‘s goalscoring prowess.

Unlike our two “German” friends Zaccardo and Toni, Joe Red couldn’t provide the match winner for his team this week-end. However the goal he did score was certainly very useful for Villarreal’s efforts against Getafe: after netting the 3-3 equalizer, Rossi came also very close to earning the Yellow Submarine a victory. Shame. Meanwhile though, his goaltotal keeps increasing (it’s at 6 now).

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