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My motive for writting this are all these Brazilian and Argentine names that come up in Transfer threads. Marcelo, Gago, Lucas, Higuain, Pezzini.....and atleast 20 more names.
Brazil, with 5 WC titles, is concidered to be the greatest football power, a country where good players grow up on the trees. I wanna say, there's no doubt great talents can be found in S. America...but what about our own backyard ?

Italy, not Brazil or Argentina, is the World Champion in football. Italy, with 4 WC titles is just behind Brazil in the All-time list.
Where did these world champions play when they were 18, 19 or 20 years old ? Not in Brazil, i can say !
19 yers old Roberto Baggio from FC Vicenza, 19 years old Del Piero from Padova FC, 18 years old Andrea Pirlo from Brescia FC , 20 years old Zambrotta from FC Bari, 20 years old Inzaghi from Albinoleffe , 17 years old Luca Toni from Modena, 18 years old Perrotta from Regina, 18 years old Cassano from Bari................. wanna hear more names? and hear where were all of them when they were 18,19,20 years old ? Where are all of them now ? On top of the world, right ?

Italy u-21 squad is concidered to be the best european squad traditionally. 5 times champions in last 8 european championships !

I must tell you that traditionally Milan and most of all Juventus were going after this Italian talents.
There were 5 Milan players winning the WC, there were 5 current and 3 ex Juve players in Italian winning team in 2006.
In 1994, when Italy almost won the WC, 9 players came from AC Milan, 4 from Juventus.
In 1982 when Italy became the champion of the world for the 3rd time, Juventus had 8 of it's players in the team.

It's obvious Milan was going after the Italian greatest talents in the past.
But now, i can see Juve is again interested in almost every young Italian out there, but there is some trend in Milan, for going after south Americans and fogetting the Italians.

Marco Amelia aint the only young talent in Italy. Italians made it to the European u21 championship again, after eliminating one of the biggest favourites- Spain.
And again, there are fantastic talents in this team :
Did you hear about Italian u21 number 10, Alessandro Rosina from Torino ?
The young striker Graziano Pelle from Genoa ?
Nicola Pozzi, who's Milan's player actually, and is now loaned in Empoli ? He does plays for Italian u21 team !
What happened to Milan's interest in young Giuseppe Rossi ?
Danielle Dessena from Parma , anyone ? Juve is allready flerting with him!
Andrea Mantovani from Chievo ? Antonio Nocerino from Piacenza ?
Ok, some of them can not be bought easily by Milan, like Juve's Chiellini, Palladino and Paro ( Paro is compared to Pirlo, and he even got a call from Donadoni for a friendly match Italy plays this November). Montolivo from Fiorentina, Aqualiani from Roma etc...
They are all u21 players, and stongest favourites to win European gold again.

I believe you understood my point !
All these players are based in Italy allready, and unlike Marcelo, they don't cheer for Real Madrid and they don't wanna play in Spain only.
As for the talent..... similar, same, or even bigger talent than the south americans !