Guess Who?

Pretty easy stuff

Barone, Barzagli, Matrix, Nesta, Iaquinta, Toni, Gila, Oddo, Zaccardo.
Ringhio, Camoranesi, Perrotta, Zambrotta, Grosso
Pirlo, Inzaghi, Totti, Amelia, Buffon, Peruzzi, DelPiero, Cannnavaro, DeRossi

DiVaio, Fiore, Panucci, Vieri, Matrix, Buffon,
Pirlo, Cannavaro, Zambrotta, Baggio, Perrotta

Doni, Panucci, Matrix, Nesta, Maldini, Vieri, Iuliano, Delvecchio, Coco,
Zambrotta, Cannavaro, DiBiagio, Tommasi, Zanetti,
Di Livio, Inzaghi, Totti, Toldo, Buffon, Abbiati, DelPiero, Montella, Ringhio

Posted from  Canada

I know pretty much all of the players but the pictures aren’t big enough to actually see who’s who

Posted from  United States

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/08/05/1423387/italy-squad-will-change-but-no-revolution-marcello-lippi

What the heck is he talking about? With a complete revolution it could take ten years to win? Were the members of the 2006 team part of the squad for ten years? Um, no. Many of them, in fact, were not at the previous World Cup and thus did not have Marcello’s so dearly valued “experience”. (Fabio Grosso, Andrea Pirlo anyone?) In fact, only nine members of the 2002 squad were there in 2006. If Marcello is such a fantastic coach, one would think he might have confidence in his ability to reach some new players instead of relying almost entirely on dead wood.

Stubborn @sswipe

marcello is grinding the team into the ground. sticking with the old guard and we’ve now dropped to fifth in fifa’s world ranking!
i give up…..we’re screwed….roll on 2014

Posted from  Australia

for you folks who want some proper calcio news. the u-21s are playing a friendly against russia on the 12th August. It’ll be a new look side we’ll see and call ups are taking place on the 6th.

what do you guys reckon? who’s going to be the new azzurrini?

Posted from  Australia

sorry…the u-21s are playing aug 11 and the proper azzurri are playing a friendly on the 12th

Posted from  Australia

here’s a previous call up casiraghi made for a friendly earlier in march, to try out some of the next gen. a few notable exceptions in balotelli and santon of course. i believe casiracghi will be calling up Man Utd’s Macheda too…we shall see

goals: Fiorillo (Sampdoria), Seculin (Fiorentina);

defence: Ariaudo (Juventus), Bellusci (Ascoli), Crescenzi (Roma), Darmian (Milan), Malomo (Roma), Ranocchia (Bari), Renzetti (Albinoleffe);

midfield: Barillà (Reggina), Bolzoni (Inter), Castiglia (Cittadella), Cia (Triestina), Di Gennaro (Reggina), Pasquato (Empoli), Poli (Sassuolo);

attack: Immobile (Juventus), Mendicino (Lazio), Paloschi (Parma)

Posted from  Australia

The 2002 World Cup squad was the strongest ever in my opinion (certainly the strongest of the decade, at least on paper…).

[Row: Bottom to Top] Players: L to R

WC 2002: [Bot.] Di Livio, Pippo, Totti, Toldo, Gigi, Abbiati, Alex DP, Montella, Rino; [Mid.] Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Di Biagio, Tommasi, Cristiano Zanetti (?); [Top] Doni, Panucci, Matrix, Nesta, Maldini, Bobo, Iuliano, Delvecchio (?), Coco.

EURO 2004: [Bot.] Pirlo, Cannavaro, Zambrotta, Roby Baggio, Perotta; [Top] Di Vaio, Fiore, Panucci, Bobo, Matrix, Gigi.

WC 2006: [Bot.] Pirlo, Pippo, Totti, Amelia, Gigi, Peruzzi, Alex DP, Cannavaro, de Rossi; [Mid.] Rino, Camoranesi, Perotta, Zambrotta, Grosso; [Top] (??? – Can’t Really See), Barzagli, Matrix, Nesta, Iaquinta, Toni, Gilardino, Oddo (?), Zaccardo.

i agree with tony that was fairly easy. if you wanna test us get a pic from 82, 86, and 90. And maybe 94.

THE NEW AZZURINI.

here’s Casiraghi’s new line up.

Goalkeepers: Fiorillo (Sampdoria), Seculin (Fiorentina)
Defenders: Ariaudo (Juventus), Brivio (Vicenza), De Silvestri (Lazio), Gentili (Varese), Ogbonna (Torino), Ranocchia (Bari), Rispoli (Brescia)
Midfielders: Barillà (Reggina), Bolzoni (Genoa), Mancosu (Empoli), Poli (Sampdoria), Signori (Sampdoria)
Forwards: Balotelli (Inter), Di Gennaro (Milan), Macheda (Manchester United), Mustacchio (Sampdoria), Paloschi (Parma), Tiboni (Atalanta)

Posted from  Australia

That new Azzurrini line up, some of the names on that line up make it sound like a world cup winning team! Who wants to take up a bet that this Azzurrini team would beat the current Lippi disaster handidly.

I think one guy on this team, Paloschi, is an example of the current calcio mentality. For my money, he is far and away better than Pato, yet, Milan shipped Paloschi out and kept Pato. Capish?

I’m interested to see the Azzurrini in action.

me too marco..they sound awesome. looking forward to seeing bolzoni and poli play…too great midfielders there. Fiorillo is a great keeper too…i reckon he may end up as our next Goalie after Buffon

Posted from  Australia

Something is off with the middle picture – I’m relatively sure that Baggio never played in a European Cup in his career.

Posted from  United States

No Baggio did not play at Euro 2004, let alone Euro 2000 and world cup 2002. Had he been on the 2002 that would have been something else entirely. And that is again a perfect example 1998, 2000, 2002 of Alessandro Delpiero ruining perfectly good opportunities to win. (exactly how he just cost Juventus a couple million euro at the peace cup with that pathetic penalty) Had the actual managers and coaches of that time realized he was a complete and utter dud on the national team, Baggio could have been there.

Imagine the christmas tree formation being used at the world cup

Baggio Totti
Vieri

No amount of ref tampering would have been able to mess around with that.

That pic is from Roby Baggio’s farewell match prior to Euro 2004 vs Spain
Trap decided to give him a farewell to the azzurri match. As Baggio said he was going to retire from calcio completely following the 2004 season.
In which, by the way, Baggio had a great year with Brescia.
Thus hoping for a call up to the Euro 04 squad which would have been a fantastic way for him to finish his career, not to mention with the trouble we had scoring goals in that tournament, his inclusion would have only helped. Perhaps at the expense of Bernardo Corradi or Marco DiVaio.

Posted from  Canada

Thats why trap is no longer with us. My how things change, maybe the greatest player ever to put on the azzurri jersey wasn’t included for a number of tournaments, while no we can’t seem to get rid of these old useless tools!

No, Trap isn’t with us because he reinvented Catenaccio and had a woeful record in his two tournaments.

And that is again a perfect example 1998, 2000, 2002 of Alessandro Delpiero ruining perfectly good opportunities to win. (exactly how he just cost Juventus a couple million euro at the peace cup with that pathetic penalty)

Going with the popular idea that he is the greatest Azzurri flop of all time, it’d be hard to know that until 2002 or so, when he’d already sunk in two tournaments. I suppose one could realize he was in poor form for Euro2000 and injured before WC98, but let the haters hate.

And blaming him for taking a poor penalty in a stupid preseason friendly…that may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

Posted from  United States

Alessio, while I agree with most of what you’re saying including ADP coming off a horrific injury in 1998.
The 2 famous misses vs france in the final of 2000 without question he has to take blame for, and he has, thus for you to defend him is just, but even as a supporter need to have the right frame of mind to admit it.
Furthermore, in the semis vs holland, when Zambrotta got sent off, ADP had to play right midfield and he played a pretty damn good game for 120minutes, so you can’t go from playing a good game like that, to saying he misses 2 golden chances in the final due to being out of form.

Posted from  Canada

“And blaming him for taking a poor penalty in a stupid preseason friendly…that may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” – His poor penalty and the dumbest thing you ever heard cost Juventus Money. It is exactly that mentality of taking things gingerly that is causing many of the problems today. Over arroganance, a lack of imagination, and not enough heart, whether it be a “stupid preseason friendly” or a “confederation cup” or a “European Championship” or a “Champions league match” is exactly what the second problem with Calcio is. The first problem is the over reliance on overpaid mid-30 year olds who underperform.

Also Alessio well said about 98,00,02,04,06,08 – All tournaments ADP has underperformed in. I neglected to actually recall that he played in all these international tournaments.

That aside, in hindsight I can see the wasted space, but at the time, I thought he should have always been starting, even in 06 – not 08.

regardless, the arguement is actually centered around Baggio. Had he been selected for those two tournaments 00,02 and heck even 04 things would have been different.

I don’t think he underperformed in 06 or 08, he played about as well as we expected him to, as a supersub. At 08, he was the only striker to really have any good efforts on goal.

I agree hindsight is 20/20 and I thought ADP should have started all those tournaments as well.

His poor penalty and the dumbest thing you ever heard cost Juventus Money.

True. Why don’t sign up for 1,000 preseason friendlies, that could earn us money. Or raise ticket prices? Or tell Poulsen to get his act together?

Posted from  United States

Alessio, Juventus’ remedy is actually to play Giovinco more and PASS HIM THE BALL! Even the commentators on Goaltv were complaining he doesnt receive the ball enough.

damn marco, you think we dont know that? ugh, i almost hope he leaves juventus if he doesnt get any playing time this season because he works hard and has the talent so he gets the career he deserves; he is the next del piero and should be treated as such.

Posted from  United States

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