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Tacconi attacks "mediocre" Toni
Tuesday 22 November, 2005
Former Juventus and Italy star Stefano Tacconi has launched an astonishing attack on the Azzurri’s goalkeepers, Alberto Gilardino and Luca Toni.
“Gilardino and Toni are two mediocre players who are simply playing well right now,” said the retired shot-stopper. “They are nonetheless poor compared to their predecessors.”
The 48-year-old remains resolutely unimpressed by the scoring exploits of the Milan and Fiorentina hitmen in the lead-up to the 2006 World Cup.
Gilardino was runner-up in the Capocannoniere charts last term with 23 goals, while Toni (pictured) has netted 15 in the opening 12 games of this season.
Tacconi, who retired in 1995 after nine years at Juventus and a final three campaigns with Genoa, was even more scathing when it came to those who replaced him in the Italy goal.
“There is a major crisis of Italian goalkeepers at the moment,” he told Radio CRC. “Gianluigi Buffon with a broken shoulder is still better than anyone else in the country.”
Buffon has been sidelined with a shoulder injury since August and has been replaced in the Azzurri area by Angelo Peruzzi, Morgan De Sanctis, Flavio Roma, Christian Abbiati and Marco Amelia. Not content with insulting his fellow countrymen, Tacconi also launched a broadside at Dida and Julio Cesar.
“If Serie A clubs have started drafting in Brazilian goalkeepers, then we really are in serious trouble. It must mean we’ve done everything wrong from 1990 onwards.”
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). And if spouting off to the press keeps him off his shoulder, I can't offer too many complaints. 
