Since there is a mid-week round this Wednesday, I'll get a super Weekend Round-up post up on
Thursday. If you look at the Serie A table right now, you'll see that leading the top of the table
is Sampdoria (tied with Juventus, but ahead of goals scored). Sampdoria have never won their first
4 games ever in their history.
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Ā The Italian tactician Marcello Lippi chooses his squad for Georgia and Bulgaria 2010 World Cup
qualifiers, again no Cassano, Del Piero, Toni,Ā Montolivo, and BalotelliĀ Goalkeepers: Buffon
(Juventus) De Sanctis (Napoli) Marchetti (Cagliari) Defenders: Cannavaro (Juventus) Chiellini
(Juventus) Criscito (Genoa) Grosso (Juventus) Legrottaglie (Juventus) Santon (Inter) Zambrotta (AC
Milan) Midfielders: Camoranesi (Juventus) D'Agostino (Udinese) De Rossi (AS Roma) Marchionni
(Fiorentina) Marchisio (Juventus) Angelo Palombo (Sampdoria) Pepe (Udinese) Pirlo (AC Milan)
Forwards: Di Natale (Udinese) Gilardino (Fiorentina) Iaquinta (Juventus) Quagliarella (Napoli)
Rossi (Villarreal) [.
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To fans of Calcio it's still as vivid as ever: The vision of Fabio Cannavaro lifting the World
Cup aloft remains the proudest of Italian memories in a difficult recent history. But with one year
to go before the 19th World Cup Final, Cannavaro and his Azzurri have a lot of hard work to do if
the national team are to avoid an embarrassing fate in their defence of the trophy.
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