Italy are, along with Argentina and Brazil, one of the favourites to win a medal in the Olympic Football tournament this year. Italy Olympic Football squad for Beijing 2008:
Coach:
Pierluigi Casiraghi
Goalkeepers:
Andrea Consigli (21) (Atalanta)
Emiliano Viviano (22) (Brescia)
Salvatore Sirigu (21) (Cremonese)
Defenders:
Salvatore Bocchetti (21) (Genoa)
Andrea Coda (23) (Udinese)
Domenico Criscito (21) (Genoa)
Paolo De Ceglie (21) (Juventus)
Lorenzo De Silvestri (20) (Lazio)
Marco Motta (22) (Udinese)
Andrea Ranocchia (20) (Arezzo)
Midfielders:
Ignazio Abate (21) (AC Milan)
Luca Cigarini (22) (Parma)
Daniele Dessena (21) (Parma)
Claudio Marchisio (22) (Juventus)
Riccardo Montolivo (23) (Fiorentina)
Antonio Nocerino (23) (Palermo)
Andrea Russotto (20) (Trevisio)
Antonio Candreva (21) (Udinese)
Strikers:
Robert Acquafresca (20) (Cagliari)
Sebastian Giovinco (21) (Juventus)
Tommaso Rocchi (30) (Lazio)
Giuseppe Rossi (21) (Villareal, Spain)
Italy have a young but talented squad and are placed in Group D with the Korea Republic, Cameroon and Honduras with them. Should qualify without too much trouble, especially with the likes of Giovinco and Rossi in the team.
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why aren’t pirlo,de rossi and del peiro there for the three senoirs who can play
team definitely looks good to me. it could be an argentina vs netherlands final or brazil v italy final.
Players like Pirlo and De rossi should have been among the overaged players instead of Rossi from Lazio.
where is Alessandro Rosina ?!?
Where is Osvaldo?
WHERE IS LUCA TONI, DANIELE DE ROSSI, GIGI BUFFON & FRANCESCO TOTTI???