Donadoni Turning to Totti and Gang for Help
When you inherit a team that won the World Cup and end up with a draw and a loss in your first two competitive games, you are going to start feeling the heat a bit, especially if you coach in a country like Italy where success is expected. Such is the case for Azzurri boss Roberto Donadoni who is hoping to get his World Cup veterans like Francisco Totti back on the field before his team blows its Euro 2008 chances. Can’t say I blame Donadoni for rushing Totti’s return. His team has looked disorganized and uninspired in qualifying. The question that remains is how much hunger the players who won the World Cup have to do it all over again in Europe.
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By gofootball | September 20th, 2006 at 11:02 am 
mmmm bacon
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Canada
By PeterBaken | September 20th, 2006 at 11:11 am Thank you gofootball, another one who admits it. Let’s keep ‘em coming!
By the way…losing because of one penalty is not embarassing in the world cup final.
Drawing against Lithuania at home after being crowned champions is!
Losing 2 games and drawing one after being crowned champions is as well!
lol 
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United States
By gofootball | September 20th, 2006 at 9:35 pm whatever you say PeterBacon.
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By Gino | September 20th, 2006 at 10:32 pm …losing because of one penalty is not embarassing in the world cup final.
Yep, that’s definitely embarassing. Thanks for making that point Bacon
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By Observer | September 21st, 2006 at 12:46 am The 2006 World Cup Final game wasn’t dominated by France and most sources that know even a bit about what they are discussing will say so. Take a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4991652.stm for example. Even with Zidane’s PK, the game should never have gotten to penalties as Toni had scored a good goal called offside. None of you who try and detract from Italy’s accomplishments acknowledge this fact. As for the PK Italy was awarded against Australia, it is rather clear from a different angle which was posted on youtube.com that Grosso was indeed taken down by the Aussie defender. Perhaps you who would try and denigrate Italy’s accomplishments are simply envious of its success, perhaps you simply hate the team or the country, perhaps you have nothing better to do – only you would know. You can say that this was a corrupt final and the ‘34 and’38 finals were corrupt and so on, but where is the proof? Because Italy was a dictatorship? So was Germany yet they did not win. If you want to talk about corrupt world cups you can make a case for most of them having some element of corruption. The History of Soccer series discusses this, such as the 1966 final. And let us not forget 2002 where numerous teams were robbed of victories due to poor or corrupt officiating including Italy with its record 5 good goals being disallowed. Italy was deserving if the 2006 title, it was the best overall team which, despite its impressive defence, played some rather open football and were the only team never to have been shutout. If not for some bad officating, Italy would have gotten away with a 2-0 or 2-1 win in the Final and Italian fans should simply point to that fact when they are told that Italy did not deserve to win.
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By Gino | September 21st, 2006 at 1:13 am Observer, good post but watch out italian fans we just opened up a big can of worms:
Enter stage left: LaZero with his vapid pal Peter”smells
like”Bacon
Come on boys let’s hear it.
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By Steelers | September 21st, 2006 at 7:10 am LOL!
Italy is not corrupt?
Is the pope catholic?
Open any European newspaper at any given day and look under Italian News!
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By Muddia Beduddia | September 21st, 2006 at 7:21 am hey gino you loser canuck. get over your jelousy of living in that pathetic neighbor of ours to the north. why do canucks handle their rampant jelousy by pretending they live somewhere cool.
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By gofootball | September 21st, 2006 at 10:05 am Muddia Beduddia, take it easy.
The Steelers suck by the way.
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By Oh Canada! | September 21st, 2006 at 10:29 am What’s with all these Canadians?
I guess that snow, lack of sunshine, cold and a useless piece of land must do that to you!
Hey gofootball, do mommy and daddy know you post here? ROFL You gonna get spanked!
And if you’re an actual adult then that is soooo sad!
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By hoser | September 21st, 2006 at 11:00 am Why all the bickering. Relax…kick back and let this video fuel your soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3j08aEPSs
peace
By gofootball | September 21st, 2006 at 11:01 am You don’t even know where Canada is? You probably don’t even know who your father is..oh yeah he’s probably your uncle..
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By Gino | September 21st, 2006 at 11:53 am look who’s talking Mr. “Oh Canada”
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By bobby | September 21st, 2006 at 1:16 pm Was there ever a better player than Roberto Baggio?
Short ansewer Hell No. Some might come close, one or two maybe his equal but thats it.
Where did this come from….just was watching old footage of the divine ponytail.
By Drago | September 21st, 2006 at 10:56 pm I agree bobby, Baggio was one of the all-time greats. Does he still play or did he retire?
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By bobby | September 22nd, 2006 at 1:08 am hey Drago……..Baggio retired in 2004.
By Catherine | September 22nd, 2006 at 5:59 am True. And Zidane is retired too.
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By Catherine | September 22nd, 2006 at 6:00 am What is with all this nastiness on Canadians?
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By Muddia Beduddia | September 22nd, 2006 at 8:08 am Comes from their bitterness towards the awesomeness that is their neighbor to the south Catherine. Of course, I do not mean you as you are always quite pleasant and bring insight to the wires. Plus, most of the regulars assume you are a smoking hottie.
On the Baggio note, it seems people are quick to add Zidane to the triumverate of Pele, Maradona and Beckenbaur as the greats of the game. Is the fact that he didn’t win a cup keep Baggio out of that realm of greatness?
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By bobby | September 24th, 2006 at 1:32 am Without question BAGGIO is part of that list of great players world cup or no world cup.
By Drago | September 24th, 2006 at 11:09 pm Lot’s of work to do with the Azzuri, they are in a must win against Ukraine and Georgia. I don’t think Totti will be back but one thing is for certain all the players will be match fit this time. When all is said and done the onus is on the players to return to winning ways.
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By john | September 25th, 2006 at 2:29 am I agree Drago the most onus is on the players. However Donadoni has his part to play.
Now that all the players are match fit as you pointed out the “Don” must recall Luca Toni, Materazzi and obviously Nesta. Basically he should be playing the world cup team less Totti if if doesn’t want to play.
The last match he put in DeRossi with 2 minutes left to play. I will never understand that especially since they were playing France.
I’m sure they will be fine now that the WC party is over (for the most part) and the players are ready both physically and mentally to focus on Euro 2008.
They will be there in 2008, no question.
regards
john
By Drago | September 25th, 2006 at 2:58 am “..They [Italians]are dirty by nature and love defrauding others and love to cheat..”
Everyone has to live and deal with corruption and scandal everyday and in every facet of their lives. It’s a moral decision made by each individual whether they are going to engage in such duplicity and has nothing to do with race, creed or colour. This statement is complete nonsense. I am not even Italian and I find this offensive. You obviously can’t engage in football talk without it turning into a political and moral debate. Let’s just stick to talking about football and relax on the finger pointing, there’s enough of that going on outside the realm of sports entertainment as it is.
“Can’t we all just get along?..”
Rodney King
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By Drago | September 25th, 2006 at 7:08 am You’re absolutely right john, I can’t imagine that donadoni would leave these players out of the lineup. With the world cup team or something close to it playing at match fitness they will qualify without a doubt. I guess the nay-sayers would hope for the opposite but we’ll be more optimistic you and I.
salute!
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By My Italia's better than your whatever!! | December 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm All of you guys are damn haters! U shouldn’t be hatin’ just cause Italia took the gold! Also, winning by 1 penalty kick is not EMBARASSING!…it’s just a sign that we’re that much better than France. PLUS who cares if they’re not doing so well right now? they just need 2 warm up a bit, and just watch…they’ll come back and kick your asses AGAIN!
Don’t be so racial! We Italianos KICK ASS! Italia’s won FOUR world championships already…how many have YOU won? THAT’S embarrassing, isn’t it!! It’s embarrassing to say something so pathetic about one of the world’s best team just cause we have more gold!! SO HA!
By the way…Italiano girl here…so if you’re gonna hate my race, hate ME first!!
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