Exactly , we haven't played any European football and also went out of the cup relatively early . To professional football players , one game a week is nothing .
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I would kill to see that formation...
Del Piero does what he does best, a supporting 2nd striker!!
I think we should rotate DP with Di Natale in the opening group stage then starting ahead with Di Natale in case Italy make it through. Throw in Alex if the game getting static coz he's a player that can add spice to the team. I doubt Don the donkey will pick Chilleleni over Materazzi. But i hope Chielleni can be the final 23 squad and so does Alex.Finger crossed no injuries to them and other Italy players.
Del Piero does what he does best, a supporting 2nd striker!!
I think we should rotate DP with Di Natale in the opening group stage then starting ahead with Di Natale in case Italy make it through. Throw in Alex if the game getting static coz he's a player that can add spice to the team. I doubt Don the donkey will pick Chilleleni over Materazzi. But i hope Chielleni can be the final 23 squad and so does Alex.Finger crossed no injuries to them and other Italy players.
Blog: Vote Del Piero
Panini have already made a space for Alex Del Piero in their Euro 2008 sticker album and James Horncastle thinks Roberto Donadoni should too
The Democratic Party failed to win enough votes to form a government on Sunday and fears are growing that another candidate for Italy’s centre-left, Alessandro Del Piero, will not be picked for Euro 2008.
How can Roberto Donadoni not select Ale this summer? The 33-year-old, nicknamed Pinturicchio by Juventus’ late patron Gianni Agnelli after the 15th Century Italian painter, is showing all the characteristics of an old master.
In a curious example of life imitating art one could say that Del Piero’s 15th season with the Bianconeri has been a personification of Pinturicchio’s Liberation of a Prisoner, freed from the shackles of Serie B, the Trevignano is hungry and rejuvenated on his return to normal life, back in Italy’s First Division.
Del Piero has made just six appearances under Donadoni, playing 316 minutes and while I agree that the former Livorno Coach was right not to select him on previous occasions, the time has changed.
Juventus’ talisman has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season, 14 in Serie A and deserves to play a part at some stage in Austria and Switzerland. Putting his current form down to a 'hunger’ for success, Del Piero’s work-rate, potency, tactical flexibility and above all his experience – he has represented his country 114 times if we take into account his appearances for the Under-17s, U-19s and U21s – are reasons enough for Donadoni to book him on the plane.
His misses in the Euro 2000 Final against France and his squabbles with Marcello Lippi during training at the World Cup two years ago are held up as examples of Del Piero’s difficult relationship and 'incompatibility’ with the Azzurri. But his detractors should remember it was Ale who scored the winner to take Italy to their sixth Mundial Final and it was the 'bottler’ himself who coolly stepped up and slotted home one of La Nazionale’s five penalties to win the trophy.
So what is Donadoni’s problem? While Del Piero often speaks his mind and cuts an outspoken figure in the dressing room one cannot help but class him as a loyal team player. Sometimes it seems Ale is proud but uncomfortable with his status as Juventus’ bandiera, preferring to be a cog, albeit a very large and shiny one, in a well-oiled Bianconero machine.
“I am only a small part of a huge black and white flag that grows with the passing of the years and if each one of you looks closely at it, you will find your own name written on it,” Del Piero explained last season.
Surely such an attitude can only help and bring harmony to the Azzurri. But who will make way? The versatile Alberto Aquilani or the, perhaps, undroppable Marco Borriello who, having scored only 11 goals in his last six Serie A seasons, found the net for the 19th time in the League this year. If I was Donadoni, I would give the old boy a chance and get rid of Giorgio Chiellini as Christian Panucci and Fabio Grosso should provide ample cover for his absence.
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Panini have already made a space for Alex Del Piero in their Euro 2008 sticker album and James Horncastle thinks Roberto Donadoni should too
The Democratic Party failed to win enough votes to form a government on Sunday and fears are growing that another candidate for Italy’s centre-left, Alessandro Del Piero, will not be picked for Euro 2008.
How can Roberto Donadoni not select Ale this summer? The 33-year-old, nicknamed Pinturicchio by Juventus’ late patron Gianni Agnelli after the 15th Century Italian painter, is showing all the characteristics of an old master.
In a curious example of life imitating art one could say that Del Piero’s 15th season with the Bianconeri has been a personification of Pinturicchio’s Liberation of a Prisoner, freed from the shackles of Serie B, the Trevignano is hungry and rejuvenated on his return to normal life, back in Italy’s First Division.
Del Piero has made just six appearances under Donadoni, playing 316 minutes and while I agree that the former Livorno Coach was right not to select him on previous occasions, the time has changed.
Juventus’ talisman has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season, 14 in Serie A and deserves to play a part at some stage in Austria and Switzerland. Putting his current form down to a 'hunger’ for success, Del Piero’s work-rate, potency, tactical flexibility and above all his experience – he has represented his country 114 times if we take into account his appearances for the Under-17s, U-19s and U21s – are reasons enough for Donadoni to book him on the plane.
His misses in the Euro 2000 Final against France and his squabbles with Marcello Lippi during training at the World Cup two years ago are held up as examples of Del Piero’s difficult relationship and 'incompatibility’ with the Azzurri. But his detractors should remember it was Ale who scored the winner to take Italy to their sixth Mundial Final and it was the 'bottler’ himself who coolly stepped up and slotted home one of La Nazionale’s five penalties to win the trophy.
So what is Donadoni’s problem? While Del Piero often speaks his mind and cuts an outspoken figure in the dressing room one cannot help but class him as a loyal team player. Sometimes it seems Ale is proud but uncomfortable with his status as Juventus’ bandiera, preferring to be a cog, albeit a very large and shiny one, in a well-oiled Bianconero machine.
“I am only a small part of a huge black and white flag that grows with the passing of the years and if each one of you looks closely at it, you will find your own name written on it,” Del Piero explained last season.
Surely such an attitude can only help and bring harmony to the Azzurri. But who will make way? The versatile Alberto Aquilani or the, perhaps, undroppable Marco Borriello who, having scored only 11 goals in his last six Serie A seasons, found the net for the 19th time in the League this year. If I was Donadoni, I would give the old boy a chance and get rid of Giorgio Chiellini as Christian Panucci and Fabio Grosso should provide ample cover for his absence.
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is he mental, keep chiellini and get rid of someone else!!!!
he can't play that role any more IMO and if donadoni tell him he's playing there then alex will go home, he already told him not to pick him if he is going to play him out wide. He can do massive damage playing behind Toni.
DP in Azzuri shouldn't be anywhere else than a supporting striker .. otherwise he's be criticized for nothing ....
it's not like in Juve he understands everyone and plays with them day in day out .. so he can't be in full connection with Toni and Inzaghi or whomever there will be .. as an attacking midfielder DP needs to be in connection with at least 5 other members of the team, 2 forwards 3 midfielders, throughout the whole game. But as a supporting striker he needs those connections but not every time he touches the ball or move off it. And having all these connections isn't a forwards responsibility to make. a midfielder should be the initiating person for these kinds of connections ..
Or what do I know? I'm a goal keeper after all.
it's not like in Juve he understands everyone and plays with them day in day out .. so he can't be in full connection with Toni and Inzaghi or whomever there will be .. as an attacking midfielder DP needs to be in connection with at least 5 other members of the team, 2 forwards 3 midfielders, throughout the whole game. But as a supporting striker he needs those connections but not every time he touches the ball or move off it. And having all these connections isn't a forwards responsibility to make. a midfielder should be the initiating person for these kinds of connections ..
Or what do I know? I'm a goal keeper after all.