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Originally Posted by MLM
this is Italy's provisional Euro 2008 squad:
GK: Buffon, Amelia, De Sanctis
defenders: Panucci, Cannavaro, Materazzi, Zambrotta, Barzagli, Chiellini, Grosso
mids: Camoranesi, Pirlo, Gattuso, Ambrosini, De Rossi, Perrotta, Aquilani, Montolivo
strikers: Toni, Di Natale, Quagliarella, Del Piero, Borriello, Cassano
one of them will be dropped before May 28th 2008 because it's provisional squad. hope Materazzi will be out otherwise he will let Italy pays for his mistakes  the squad is good and i'm really hoping that Toni will continue his good performances with Bayern at Euro 2008 with Italy. and my dream comes true when i saw Aquilani is on the called up players list. man is awesome. but apparently it's true that Pippo isn't called for Euro 2008. he had good performances with Milan after hes back from injury, so i kinda dissapointed like Pippo. this is his declaration taken from acmilan.com:
EURO 2008: THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF PIPPO INZAGHI
5/20/2008 5:58:00 PM
Filippo Inzaghi on the choices of Roberto Donadoni: "I thought I had shown loyalty and cohesion with the project and in our relationship. Instead I only earned silence. Too bad. My best wishes to my team mates!"
Here's Filippo Inzaghi's comment about not being called up for Euro 2008 by coach Roberto Donadoni: "I am disappointed especially from the human point of view. I had started this two-year period with a positive and frank relationship with the coach, also scoring in Naples against Lithuania the first goal of the qualifying campaign. But since in football goals are not all that matters, I thought I had also shown loyalty and cohesion with the project and the relationship with the coach, both in participating to away games without coming on the pitch, both in answering affermatively to a call up for the match against the Faroe Islands last summer in a qualification game that was worth three points like all the others. Then, the silence, despite my performances with Milan in every continent and my 18 goals scored between the winter through to April and May. Evidently an injury during my club season was enough not to even deserve a phone call, to cancel what I thought was an adult and mature relationship. I'm disappointed I was wrong, many sincere best wishes to the Azzurri for the Euros." |
not only inzaghi got cut from the squad but also Oddo
channel four
Massimo Oddo has spoken of his disbelief at being left out of the Euro 2008 squad. “I didn’t expect it,” said the Milan man.
The full-back has been a regular in the Giro Azzurro since the appointment of Roberto Donadoni in 2006, but the latter omitted him from his 24-man preliminary party earlier this week.
“It’s an exclusion that burns me and I sincerely didn’t expect it,” noted the former Verona and Lazio man.
“Two years of my total disposal, sacrifices and acceptance of responsibility have been trampled on in the space of a few weeks.”
Donadoni seemed to defend his decision to ignore Oddo by focusing on the recent knee meniscus surgery that they player underwent, but the World Cup winner insists that was irrelevant.
“I would have reached a more than satisfying level of fitness two weeks before the tournament kicked off,” he added.
“In all honesty, the minimum I would have expected was to have my physical condition verified – if Donadoni’s consideration and faith in me hadn’t changed that is.”
Italy will travel to Euro 2008 with two right-backs in the form of Roma’s Christian Panucci and Gianluca Zambrotta of Barcelona.
To be honest this again is a good thing, they can both rest a prepare themselfs for the next season AND they most likely have the urge to prove Donadoni wrong. In Oddo's case this kick in the bum could just be what he needs.
however this also implies that 2 players aren't to fond of Donadoni who fits the profile for a coach the management wants but Milan is all about peace and quiet in the dressing room (cf cosmin contra) so this could jeopardise Dona's arrival in the near future. (Allthough I don't think carlo will leave anytime soon)