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Sunday will be hold particular significance for Fabio Cannavaro. Not only will the bianconeri defender captain his side into a World Cup final, but he will do so on the occasion of his 100th cap, the last 19 of which have come as a Juve player. Only Paolo Maldini and Dino Zoff – with 126 and 112 caps respectively – have made more appearances for the national squad, and victory against France would further confirm his status amongst the ranks of Italy’s all-time greats.
However, Fabio is not the only bianconeri player to reach an important milestone in his international career. An appearance by Alex Del Piero on Sunday would see him pass the record of Gaetano Scirea, whilst Gigi Buffon will be capped for the 67th time, 47 as a Juve player, taking him level with Giampiero Combi, the first Juventus ‘keeper to win the World Cup.
The list below details the most internationally-capped bianconeri players (the number in brackets representing their appearances as a Juventus player)
Zoff 112 - (93)
Tardelli 81 - (80)
Scirea 78 - (78)
Del Piero 78 - (78)
Cabrini 73 - (73)
Gentile 71 - (71)
Buffon 66 - (46)
Causio 63 - (57)
Zambrotta 57 - (55)
Combi 47 - (47)
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Can Canna become Italy's most famous and successful defender ever ? For some reason, the most famous today are Baresi and Maldini. Two great players that went through Milan's PR machine well. There's Scirea of course, Bergomi... can canna become the greatest ever ??? 
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Sunday will be hold particular significance for Fabio Cannavaro. Not only will the bianconeri defender captain his side into a World Cup final, but he will do so on the occasion of his 100th cap, the last 19 of which have come as a Juve player. Only Paolo Maldini and Dino Zoff – with 126 and 112 caps respectively – have made more appearances for the national squad, and victory against France would further confirm his status amongst the ranks of Italy’s all-time greats.
However, Fabio is not the only bianconeri player to reach an important milestone in his international career. An appearance by Alex Del Piero on Sunday would see him pass the record of Gaetano Scirea, whilst Gigi Buffon will be capped for the 67th time, 47 as a Juve player, taking him level with Giampiero Combi, the first Juventus ‘keeper to win the World Cup.
The list below details the most internationally-capped bianconeri players (the number in brackets representing their appearances as a Juventus player)
Zoff 112 - (93)
Tardelli 81 - (80)
Scirea 78 - (78)
Del Piero 78 - (78)
Cabrini 73 - (73)
Gentile 71 - (71)
Buffon 66 - (46)
Causio 63 - (57)
Zambrotta 57 - (55)
Combi 47 - (47)
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Can Canna become Italy's most famous and successful defender ever ? For some reason, the most famous today are Baresi and Maldini. Two great players that went through Milan's PR machine well. There's Scirea of course, Bergomi... can canna become the greatest ever ???
Fabio to score 6 goals in the final and win both :toast:
Damn I hope Canna stays on with the Azzurri for as long as possible and becomes the most capped player, winning a handful of Euro and World Cup titles on the way.
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Sunday will be hold particular significance for Fabio Cannavaro. Not only will the bianconeri defender captain his side into a World Cup final, but he will do so on the occasion of his 100th cap, the last 19 of which have come as a Juve player. Only Paolo Maldini and Dino Zoff – with 126 and 112 caps respectively – have made more appearances for the national squad, and victory against France would further confirm his status amongst the ranks of Italy’s all-time greats.
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Sunday will be hold particular significance for Fabio Cannavaro. Not only will the bianconeri defender captain his side into a World Cup final, but he will do so on the occasion of his 100th cap, the last 19 of which have come as a Juve player. Only Paolo Maldini and Dino Zoff – with 126 and 112 caps respectively – have made more appearances for the national squad, and victory against France would further confirm his status amongst the ranks of Italy’s all-time greats.
Cannavaro — the footballing Neapolitan street urchin
Duisberg: A hearty rendition of O Sole Mio was booming out in Italy's dressing room when the Prime Minister Romano Prodi came to congratulate the team on beating Germany.
"Even he joined in," Fabio Cannavaro revealed on Thursday. "It was great."
For Cannavaro, hearing that Neapolitan ditty being sung joyously was particularly special. A son of Naples, he remembers a World Cup semifinal there that left nobody in the mood to sing.
Cannavaro was a ball boy at his hometown stadium in 1990 when Italy's dream was crushed by Argentina in a penalty shoot-out. Two late goals in Dortmund averted the prospect of similar despair and he was entitled to sing loudly. He had been outstanding and it was hard to argue with Marcello Lippi's description of him as the world's best centre-back.
100th cap
Sunday, fittingly, will bring the captain's 100th cap and it suggests a lack of ego that he had to be told such a twist was possible.
"We were joking about how many caps he needed to overtake this player and that player," Lippi said," and I told him: "Do you know, with this World Cup if you get to the final, seven games will take you to 100?" And now we are there it is a fantastic thing.
"Cannavaro is having a fantastic World Cup. He is without question the strongest defender at this tournament and the absolute No.1 in the world."
Italy wants to leave as No1. Though dressing-room celebrations were raucous on Tuesday, it was a calm squad that digested the success over dinner and small amounts of alcohol. There is determination not to waste this chance.
Rare error
For Cannavaro it would help wipe out such lows as 1990 and defeat in the Euro 2000 final, when a rare error of his helped France score. "We are very happy to be where we are," he said, "but I don't want to stop now."
Cannavaro will not allow complacency. The Juventus defender is more quiet captain than tub-thumping orator but he leads by example and cajoles or guides. During the semifinal, for example, he gestured to Marco Materazzi to play calmly after his fellow central defender had again wasted possession. Aggressive Cannavaro may be but he is always relaxed enough to see the full picture. The 32-year-old is described in the Italian football federation guide as "the footballing Neapolitan street urchin" and there is that rugged quality about his play. It sums up what he brings that a former national coach, Cesare Maldini, called him Canna, meaning cane or reed — something that bends but does not break.
Cannavaro, like the goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, has been unbreakable as Italy has progressed while conceding only once, and that an own-goal. A relative lack of height does not prevent him being strong in the air, his positioning is excellent and his tackling well timed. His displays and organising are all the more impressive for coming, since early in the third group game, without his usual partner Alessandro Nesta, who is injured.
When Cannavaro reflected on this team's accomplishments he alluded to failure in Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup. "We stored up a lot of anger," he said, "about how we hadn't performed or qualified for the later stages, and we have taken that anger out on the pitch here."
Unbeaten
Changes of players and coach have also been crucial; Italy is now unbeaten in 24 games. "This isn't the product of the last week or even the last month," Cannavaro said. "This has been a two-year project. From the moment the coach came in, you could sense the enthusiasm increased, the will to win increased."
Lippi confirmed his astuteness by bringing on Alessandro del Piero, Alberto Gilardino and Vincenzo Iaquinta against Germany. It provided chances as the game got stretched, and Gilardino set up del Piero's goal. There was none of the caution that typified and cost Italy under Giovanni Trapattoni in the two previous tournaments and it gave the team a lift.
"There was a signal to us that the game was there to be won," Cannavaro said, "but he had also brought on two players (del Piero and Gilardino) who are very good at penalties." That relaxed a team aware of their country's dismal history in shoot-outs.
del Piero noted that, amid the scandal engulfing Italy's domestic football, "we have shown that we have got some great footballers at Juventus and that we are not criminals." He added: "Everything that has happened off the pitch has brought us closer together."
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Duisberg: A hearty rendition of O Sole Mio was booming out in Italy's dressing room when the Prime Minister Romano Prodi came to congratulate the team on beating Germany.
"Even he joined in," Fabio Cannavaro revealed on Thursday. "It was great."
For Cannavaro, hearing that Neapolitan ditty being sung joyously was particularly special. A son of Naples, he remembers a World Cup semifinal there that left nobody in the mood to sing.
Cannavaro was a ball boy
at his hometown stadium in 1990 when Italy's dream was crushed by Argentina in a penalty shoot-out. Two late goals in Dortmund averted the prospect of similar despair and he was entitled to sing loudly. He had been outstanding and it was hard to argue with Marcello Lippi's description of him as the world's best centre-back. 100th cap
Sunday, fittingly, will bring the captain's 100th cap and it suggests a lack of ego that he had to be told such a twist was possible.
"We were joking about how many caps he needed to overtake this player and that player," Lippi said," and I told him: "Do you know, with this World Cup if you get to the final, seven games will take you to 100?" And now we are there it is a fantastic thing.
"Cannavaro is having a fantastic World Cup. He is without question the strongest defender at this tournament and the absolute No.1 in the world."
Italy wants to leave as No1. Though dressing-room celebrations were raucous on Tuesday, it was a calm squad that digested the success over dinner and small amounts of alcohol. There is determination not to waste this chance.
Rare error
For Cannavaro it would help wipe out such lows as 1990 and defeat in the Euro 2000 final, when a rare error of his helped France score. "We are very happy to be where we are," he said, "but I don't want to stop now."
Cannavaro will not allow complacency. The Juventus defender is more quiet captain than tub-thumping orator but he leads by example and cajoles or guides. During the semifinal, for example, he gestured to Marco Materazzi to play calmly after his fellow central defender had again wasted possession. Aggressive Cannavaro may be but he is always relaxed enough to see the full picture. The 32-year-old is described in the Italian football federation guide as "the footballing Neapolitan street urchin" and there is that rugged quality about his play. It sums up what he brings that a former national coach, Cesare Maldini, called him Canna, meaning cane or reed — something that bends but does not break.
Cannavaro, like the goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, has been unbreakable as Italy has progressed while conceding only once, and that an own-goal. A relative lack of height does not prevent him being strong in the air, his positioning is excellent and his tackling well timed. His displays and organising are all the more impressive for coming, since early in the third group game, without his usual partner Alessandro Nesta, who is injured.
When Cannavaro reflected on this team's accomplishments he alluded to failure in Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup. "We stored up a lot of anger," he said, "about how we hadn't performed or qualified for the later stages, and we have taken that anger out on the pitch here."
Unbeaten
Changes of players and coach have also been crucial; Italy is now unbeaten in 24 games. "This isn't the product of the last week or even the last month," Cannavaro said. "This has been a two-year project. From the moment the coach came in, you could sense the enthusiasm increased, the will to win increased."
Lippi confirmed his astuteness by bringing on Alessandro del Piero, Alberto Gilardino and Vincenzo Iaquinta against Germany. It provided chances as the game got stretched, and Gilardino set up del Piero's goal. There was none of the caution that typified and cost Italy under Giovanni Trapattoni in the two previous tournaments and it gave the team a lift.
"There was a signal to us that the game was there to be won," Cannavaro said, "but he had also brought on two players (del Piero and Gilardino) who are very good at penalties." That relaxed a team aware of their country's dismal history in shoot-outs.
del Piero noted that, amid the scandal engulfing Italy's domestic football, "we have shown that we have got some great footballers at Juventus and that we are not criminals." He added: "Everything that has happened off the pitch has brought us closer together."
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