Gilardino: Best Player in Italy

Not sure how I missed it, but in case you did as well, the Italian football ‘Oscar Awards’ were handed out earlier this week and Alberto Gilardino won the gong for Best Player in Italy by his peers. (Hey, any excuse for a party, right??) He was about the only person in the room to win that wasn’t wearing the black-and-white of Turin’s La Vecchia Signora.

This was the event where Fabio Capello uttered the now famous zinger about Inter– “they are a nice side…of Argentines”. Funny bit, until you realize that without imported names like Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet and Viera, ol’ Fabio wouldn’t be sitting at the top of Serie A, would he?