Comments on: The Curious Case of Frederico Macheda: Why Italy are Losing Youth to English Teams

By: 9 Champion Leagues

9 Champion Leagues — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:18:57 +0000

hahaha facts are facts are facts…spain will never win a WC, italy is inherently superior.

By: John Nitti

John Nitti — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:17:29 +0000

Italy has always kept most of their talents home, that’s one of the reasons the national team has shared a good understanding among each other. Now many old stars are past their best and its a new era and lippi, just as domenech are assessing a new winning squad and its not easy to complete in the short run. Spain has also kept most of their talents home in the past and they didnt manage to make it far enough, and ironically enough, now that many spaniards are playing in the premier, they finally have built a solid team. Is keeping your talents home the real key to success?

By: FORZAFRANKIE

FORZAFRANKIE — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:20:44 +0000

I agree. These Italian clubs need to bring our boys back home! I am sick of exporting talent and having the other leagues we compete against on a euro club level, benefit from it. While our teams at home sign aging outsiders! Why is Juve interested in Diego and not Rossi? Or let alone the phenom sitting on their bench. This is so frustrating!

By: 9 champs leagues

9 champs leagues — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:42:06 +0000

iam really surprised that no italian team is considering Guiseppe Rossi, now that it is almost certain that Villareal will miss out on CL next season, Rossi must be brought to Italia maybe Milan should buy him..It was shocking to read yesterday that Milan is considering tRezeguet..what is wrong with this great club??r they opening a retirement home??if they had a little bit of common sense, they should sign Rossi, bring Paloschi back and offload Emerson, Beckham and others..i mean it is sad to see Milan now a days..what happened to all the money they won in Europe( CL wins?????)

By: 9 champs leagues

9 champs leagues — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:52:23 +0000

atleast there is some great news for Italian football..
ITALIAN JUVENTUS..
Quagliarella is all but snapped up by Juve, strangely, from the azzurri point of veiw, Canna´s transfer and combo with Chiellini would benifit us in 2010..if Cassano is signed, then he will be in the 2010 squad which is excellent news….imagine a forward line of 3 consisting of Quagliarella, Amauri and Iaquinta..It will be the best in Europe..then most of the players from Juve will be in the national team…
quags, Iaquinta, Amauri<8if selected<9, Gio<8 if selected), Cassano, Marchisio, canna, chiellini….

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:01:52 +0000

^ This was just a test for different players prior to the U20 World Cup. Not a big deal. Besides, I could care less about the U20 World Cup — it’s the Euro U17 and the Euro U21 that we should be worried about.

By: Daddio

Daddio — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:32:23 +0000

Don’t be alarmed. The young Italian teams are coming to save us. Oops. We just lost 5-0 to Germany and it should have been 10-0!

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:46:03 +0000

Italian football is guilty of the following . . . . 1st: We develop the talent only for the Technical Director of any respective squad (domestically) to leave it fallow &/or loaned out idlying their time in lower divisions; or, in the case of Petrucci (AS Roma), Macheda (SS Lazio) et. al, they are simply poached by clubs that have the money but more importantly will give them the opportunity to play at the top level; or even worse yet, the player is not given space and they either have to ply their trade in another league (Rossi) or they evaporate all together.
2nd: Besides Inter, AC Milan and Juve, there are no other Teams that can compete on the same playing field financially (domestically); let alone when interest comes in from England, Spain, and even Germany. If these two pronged problems do not change any time soon . . . this will rear it’s head on gli nazionale, and Italian Football in Europe. I would have to concur with the previous statement that it may already have with Lippi . . .

By: alessio

alessio — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:47:35 +0000

I’d take him. Cross-town switch would do him some good.

By: kqql

kqql — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:04:03 +0000

Juve should buy him, they use a 4-4-2 formation and he would be perfect replacement for Camo.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti Rules Out Ignazio Abate Return
Abate’s hopes of returning to Milan have been dashed as Ancelotti closes the door on him…

“Abate has improved plenty, but a winger like him would not fit into our tactical system,” Ancelotti told Tuttomercatoweb.com.

[url]http://goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/04/20/1219442/milan-coach-carlo-ancelotti-rules-out-ignazio-abate-move