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Italy 2010 world cup squad


Italy are the defending world champions and will look to retain their world cup title. Peruse on to know more on the Italian team/squad for the FIFA World Cup 2010.

The only country to have taken dwelling the FIFA World Cup twice in a row other than Brazil, are Italy. In South Africa this year the Italians may look out to approach up with a sequel of their predecessors 1934 and 1938 accomplishment. They defend their Cup in South Africa and in order to retain the matching, they will have to position up more than just a serious fight.


The Italians exhibited warrior like traits in the qualifying matches. Marcello Lippi's men managed to come out on top of their respective team, courtesy their uncomplicated and determined approach to their brand of football. The dominant Italian team shot 18 goals past rivalry goalkeepers and gave away only 7, thus drawing three matches and winning seven in the process. Gianluigi Buffon, Italy’s wall of a goalkeeper, apart from Italy’s fortified defence, deserves props for the goals he saved in the qualifying matches. He is considered to be one of the better if not the best goalkeeper in the competition; getting a football past him will take more th




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    World Cup 2010: Official Italy Squad - Giuseppe Rossi Left Out

    Italy have named their final squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

    Marcello Lippi released his provisional 30-man squad in early May and has since let go of Juventus duo Fabio Grosso and Antonio Candreva. The Azzurri tactician has now released five more players, to fine tune his final 23-man World Cup squad.

    The unlucky players who will miss out on the high-profile tournament are Salvatore Sirigu, Mattia Cassani, Andrea Cossu, Marco Borriello and Giuseppe Rossi.

    Mauro Camoranesi suffered a late injury this afternoon, but was still included in the squad. The Italo-Argentine said, "I felt a tweak in my knee. I hope it is nothing serious." The midfielder is expected to recover in time for the Azzurri's opening group stage conflict with Paraguay on June 14.

    The Azzurri won the tournament in 2006, but after a dreadful showing in last year's Confederations Cup, many have doubts as to whether they will be able to defend their crown.

    Here is the full squad:

    Goalkeepers-
    Gianluigi Buffon
    		Juventus
    Morgan De SanctisNapoli
    Federico MarchettiCagliari
    Defenders-
    Fabio

    italy 2010 world cup squad

    World Cup 2010 Group F: Ultimate 23-man squads announced

    Italy have dropped Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi from their 23-man World Cup squad.

    Rossi, who played in last summer's Confederations Cup, has been discarded by coach Marcello Lippi along with goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu, defender Mattia Cassani, midfielder Andrea Cossu and striker Marco Borriello.

    The choice to drop Rossi means there will be no foreign-based players in Italy's World Cup party.

    Among those who have made the final squad are Napoli forward Fabio Quagliarella and Genoa defender Salvatore Bocchetti.

    Bocchetti's inclusion was the biggest surprise as the 23-year-old has previously made just three appearances for the Azzurri.

    Italy

    Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De Sanctis (Napoli), Federico Marchetti (Cagliari)

    Defenders: Gianluca Zambrotta (Milan), Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Christian Maggio (Napoli), Leonardo Bonucci (Bari), Domenico Criscito (Genoa), Salvatore Bocchetti (Genoa)

    Midfielders: Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan), Gennaro Gattuso (Milan), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Riccardo Montolivo (Fiorentina), Mauro Camoranesi (Juventus), Ang

    Italy's Hottest Soccer Players Part IV: 2010 World Cup Edition

    With the 2010 World Cup starting in T-minus five days, I consideration it was time for another installment of my hottest Italian footballers series. Now, attentive readers may notice that doing another post about hot Italian soccer players at this moment means I’m a bit out of sync. See, to stop the nagging from the boys in my office, every time I posted pictures of Italian soccer greats in their skivvies up on the site I would then follow it up with a post about some of the beautiful Italian women who date and/or marry soccer stars – and I haven’t yet written part 3 of the “WAGs” posts to complement part 3 of the footballers posts. So I’m going on the record as saying that I owe the guys two posts on the lovely ladies, okay?
    The thing is, I can’t pass up the opportunity to get to know the Italy World Cup team a brief bit better. Which is why I thought for the 4th installment of the hot footballers series I’m covering the 2010 Italy World Cup team – all 23 of them.
    And yeah, I’ll say it – not all of these guys are equal on the gorgeous-ometer. In