Massimo Oddo

Massimo Oddo Massimo Oddo (Città Sant'Angelo, 14 giugno 1976) è un calciatore professionista italiano attualmente in forza al Milan che gioca nel ruolo di terzino di fascia destra.

Ha iniziato a giocare come professionista nel Fiorenzuola in Serie C, per poi giocare negli anni successivi, sempre nella stessa serie, nel Monza, nel Prato e nel Lecco.L'esordio in Serie B l'ha avuto con il Monza ma l'anno successivo ha affrontato la serie cadetta con il Napoli.È con il Verona che Oddo gioca i sui primi due campionati in Serie A, ma è stato con la Lazio che il giocatore ha avuto modo di porsi all'attenzione del maggior pubblico ed esordire in nazionale il 21 agosto 2002 nella partita persa per 1-0 contro la Slovenia.Buone doti difensive con un'ottima corsa ne fanno un difensore capace di difendere ed offendere con la stessa naturalezza. Si è distinto anche per le doti di realizzatore (19 gol in Serie A) e ottimo rigorista.Nel gennaio 2007 è acquistato dal Milan in cambio di sette milioni e 750mila euro e della cessione a titolo definitivo del cartellino di Pasquale Foggia, che vestiva già la maglia biancoceleste, alla Lazio. Ha esordito con la maglia rossonera il 28 gennaio 2007 in Milan-Parma 1-0 e ha segnato il suo primo gol con la nuova squadra in Milan-Chievo 3-1.

È considerato uno dei migliori laterali italiani, tanto da meritare la convocazione di Marcello Lippi in nazionale per i Mondiali di Germania 2006.Nella competizione vinta dagli azzurri ha collezionato una presenza contro l'Ucraina nei quarti di finale. In precedenza aveva conquistato l'Universiade nel 1997.Segna su rigore all'Olimpico di Roma il suo primo gol in nazionale nel 2-0 contro l'Ucraina il 7 ottobre 2006.

Nome Massimo Oddo
Soprannomi
Nato 14 giugno 1976
Città Sant'Angelo (PE)
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Nazionalità Italia
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Altezza 182 cm
Peso 76 kg

Let me guess: do you like Oddo ?

Originally Posted by Giovanni

Let me guess: do you like Oddo ?

lol, you might want to check the Dida and Kaka thread before making that assumption

SweetAngel has done nothing but spam the forums by copying Wiki stuff here. Here, FOUR straight posts. Ridiculous.

Why she's still hanging around, I have no idea.

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

SweetAngel has done nothing but spam the forums by copying Wiki stuff here. Here, FOUR straight posts. Ridiculous.

Why she's still hanging around, I have no idea.

perhaps he/she (i'm not sure what an angel's sex is) was kicked out from heaven but please angel, at least try to translate it into english

Terrible, terrible player.

Ever since he joined us, he has looked a pale imitation of Lazio's Oddo. He cannot cross at all.

I kinda fancy his heir at Lazio, De Silvestri, to replace him in the coming years...What do you guys think??

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Terrible, terrible player.

Ever since he joined us, he has looked a pale imitation of Lazio's Oddo. He cannot cross at all.

Seems like some players who come to Milan are too eager to be a success, like Oddo and Gilardino. We (at least some of us, or else Milan wouldn't buy them at all) know they are capable of being great players, but they try too hard and get too eager and a bit "wild". They should calm down and play like they used to do and everything would be just fine.

I think Oddo is a good player. I would give him more chances. His defensive skills are better than his attacking ones. But it's easier to learn and improve attacking skills, for a full back, rather than learning how to defend.

Oddo (with the double marking of Gattuso) nullified Cristiano Ronaldo at San Siro.

Plus, i want to point out that his crosses have been not brilliant, but:

1. you have to deliver quick balls, and many times first touch, if you want to create danger in the box (which means higher chance to choke on the ball and miss them)

2. tactically, we are not a team that helps Oddo's game. We field one striker alone, and miss our 50% of striking force on crosses. There's a weak presence inside the box, and too many times the player attacks the first post, while the crosses are delivered on the farer one. We prefer to play on the central part of the field, and without a target man like Toni or Bierhoff it's better to attack from wings with low crosses.

3. sometimes, the crosses aren't wrong. it can also be the striker who does wrong movements.

he's an ok player but cafu is much better and could be a useful back-up, but not a regular, I would rather play cafu because he's more consistent than Oddo, did u see him against Shakhtar, he gave the ball straight to Brandao, even my mother would have done better than that, but he is a good full-back at times. I think Milan should show him the door in June and get a better full-back like Ilsinho from Sao Paulo, I've seen this guy play and he's a bit like cafu when he was younger.

Originally Posted by LedbyZep

he's an ok player but cafu is much better and could be a useful back-up, but not a regular, I would rather play cafu because he's more consistent than Oddo, did u see him against Shakhtar, he gave the ball straight to Brandao, even my mother would have done better than that, but he is a good full-back at times. I think Milan should show him the door in June and get a better full-back like Ilsinho from Sao Paulo, I've seen this guy play and he's a bit like cafu when he was younger.

I don't think so. All these supposed brazilian stars can't defend by any Serie A standard. On these forums, there was also people praying Milan board to sign Cicinho and now he can't even get into Roma's XI.

Cafu can play that good, even because he plays one match out of 20. As simple as that.

Gimme Zambrotta any time, regardless of who the other choices are.

Originally Posted by Arildonardo

Seems like some players who come to Milan are too eager to be a success, like Oddo and Gilardino. We (at least some of us, or else Milan wouldn't buy them at all) know they are capable of being great players, but they try too hard and get too eager and a bit "wild". They should calm down and play like they used to do and everything would be just fine.

I think with Oddo he's performed worse this season as it progresses. He did pretty well last season and he started this one very well (remember especially how well he did against Genoa in the opening match). Unfortunately since then his form has dropped and of late it's awful. I'm not sure why there's been such a drastic drop and defensively I'm not sure what the problem is as he didn't seem to have such problems last season, but it's clear he's not as disciplined tactically. He needs to look a little more when he crosses, as he tends to cross deep when our strikers like to go near post.

Gila I think has an interesting issue, as he's not actually playing badly, but currently struggles with this system like Pippo. He was on fire a short while ago, and what strikes me is back then we were quite attacking (at the expense of defensive stability), pressing higher up the pitch and Gila had the support he needs rather than getting isolated. Like Pippo, he's a poacher and he can't play as a target man, he needs support and he needs others to help him get space.

Gio, I must say I disagree with your comments about Brazilians defending in Serie A, well at least in Cafu's case. Personally, I think the years Cafu has spent in Serie A has helped him defensively, and he is a lot more solid than he appears. His positioning is very good (I remember a number of times he saved us defensively by taking up good positions) and he rarely gets beaten on the right. The only problem is age has caught up and he can't play regularly these days.