Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (94 Viewers)

ForzaFerrari

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Azzurri7 said:
Another Mexico show hopefully and people will bite their nails for the 100909797u times.
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I'm not trying to be an asshole or something like that, 'cause I love to see Alex play as much as you. But Mexico 2002, even without his goal Italy would have passed the group because Croatia lost against Ecuador.

I'm hoping the Don drops Toni for Cassano and Di Natale so that Alex can replace Di Natale in the second half to play in his favourite position.

No Toni is the way to go today.
 
francesco

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Del Piero Not Good Enough Anymore - Macari

Ex-Manchester United player Lou Macari is backing Italy to pull through tonight's crunch game in Euro 2008 against France, but was critical of Alessandro Del Piero's presence in the national team...

Macari played for Manchester United from 1973 to 1984 and has since had a sporadic and low-key career in management, from which he is now retired.

He now occasionally appears as a pundit for Sky Sports and Setanta Sports, and has today offered his opinion on the upcoming clash between Italy and France in Euro 2008.

"One of the big ones will fall tonight when France and Italy square up for the right to join Holland in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008," wrote Macari.

"I imagine they will be going for the win because a draw could leave the door open for Romania to sneak between them by beating Holland in the other group game.

"Both France and Italy will have to improve and I just take Italy to sneak it because they have a habit of scraping through these kinds of difficulties."

He then gave a damning assessment of both countries, suggesting their youth development was waning and that Thierry Henry and Alessandro Del Piero were no longer good enough to play at the highest level.

"But of even greater concern than qualification is the apparent lack of young talent coming through for these two footballing superpowers," he continued.

"The fact that the likes of Thierry Henry and Nicolas Anelka are still hanging around in the French set-up speaks volumes for how bare their cupboard must be right now, while Italy have placed similar faith in Alessandro del Piero in the absence of anything younger and better."

Macari is backing the Dutch to win the tournament off the back of their blistering start, but even suggested that they should perhaps draft in someone younger to replace striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

"My tip for the tournament has to be Holland on the evidence we've seen so far," he said.

"And even they are relying on Ruud van Nistelrooy to get them the goals - and he's hardly fresh off the production line."

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Ahmed

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"Macari played for Manchester United from 1973 to 1984 and has since had a sporadic and low-key career in management, from which he is now retired."

forget him, just another Gerrard worshipping loser
 
BillyG

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i still fail too se y he got all that criticism for the romania game? :confused

How is it his fault if he fails to shine in a sysytem that is not designed for him to do so?????

so dunadoni decided to play ale from the start....but then proceeds to play a game based on playing down the flanks & bombarding the box with crosses for vieri's love child.

how does that benefit ale? he needs the ball to his feet for him to turn & do his thing which is to run at defenders! Not to be feeding of whatever scraps toni leaves him. That is the job of a player like inzaghi who's natural instincts would make those scraps into gunuine chances.

I find it hard to believe that that idiot they call a coach thought his dumb tactics wud persevere against a team that is simply one of the most organised at the tourney. he has higlighted now his tactical neiveity for the world too see & is an embarrassment to the high standard of of coaching in italy...in simple words...this simpleton is below par! & now he has no plan B to fall back on.

ur only as good as ur last game....and for donadoni this may be his last game...forever
 
Christina

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BW whisky-juve said:
i still fail too se y he got all that criticism for the romania game? :confused

How is it his fault if he fails to shine in a sysytem that is not designed for him to do so?????

so dunadoni decided to play ale from the start....but then proceeds to play a game based on playing down the flanks & bombarding the box with crosses for vieri's love child.

how does that benefit ale? he needs the ball to his feet for him to turn & do his thing which is to run at defenders! Not to be feeding of whatever scraps toni leaves him. That is the job of a player like inzaghi who's natural instincts would make those scraps into gunuine chances.

I find it hard to believe that that idiot they call a coach thought his dumb tactics wud persevere against a team that is simply one of the most organised at the tourney. he has higlighted now his tactical neiveity for the world too see & is an embarrassment to the high standard of of coaching in italy...in simple words...this simpleton is below par! & now he has no plan B to fall back on.

ur only as good as ur last game....and for donadoni this may be his last game...forever
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Exactly. Cassano should be given the same criticism then, cause he did the same.
 
ZAF3000

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Italy has qualified. Does that mean Donadoni is a good coach?
1- He still think Perrotta is a terrific player
2- He still has Ambrosini as a choice player
3- From my basic football knowledge IF a player is not going to play the next match then its better to keep him ON THE FIELD so you won't exhaust more player who u may need in the next match. Mr. Donadoni decided to pull out the only two players that won't play the next Match, Pirlo and Gatuso. In addition, he thought that Ambrosini would be a good substitution.

Italy won the game not because they had a good coach, they won the game because the players wanted to. If you just watch the game it was obvious that Italy was playing without any tactics.
 
Ahmed

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if Italy stay back against the Spanish they will suffer...Donadoni needs to go all-out and play Ale Toni Cassano...going forward Italy still don't look so great
 
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