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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	/	0-2
Andrea Dossena	Liverpool	@Blackburg	(bench)	/	3-1
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	@Hibs	/	/	0-2
Manuel Pascali	Kilmarnock	@Aberdeen	/	/	pp.
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GERMANY
Andrea Barzagli	Wolfsburg	Hannover	90	/	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	/	3-4
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	@Real Madrid	(injd)	/	4-3
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	Barcelona	(injd)	/	0-4
Giuseppe Rossi	Villarreal	Getafe	90	1 GOAL	3-3
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Nantes	90	/	1-2
Elia Legati	Monaco	Sochaux	/	/	1-2
Flavio Roma	Monaco	Sochaux	(injd)	/	1-2
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	Heracles	1	/	2-0
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BELGIUM
Francesco Migliore	Mons	Dender	90	/	5-2
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Dender	(injd)	/	5-2
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SWITZERLAND
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	@Bellinzona	(bench)	/	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	/	/	0-3
Matteo Gritti	Bellinzona	FC Zürich	(bench)	/	0-3
Iacopo La Rocca	Bellinzona	FC Zürich	/	/	0-3
Giuseppe Miccolis	Bellinzona	FC Zürich	(bench)	/	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?

I’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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Remaining 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 90^th 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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And 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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Tags: Cristian Zaccardo, Giuseppe Rossi, Italian Players Around the World, Luca Toni

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