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.
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.
The Italian tactician Marcello Lippi chooses his squad for Georgia and Bulgaria 2010 World Cup
qualifiers, again no Cassano, Del Piero, Toni, Montolivo, and Balotelli 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) [.
