subject: World Cup 2010 Hopes For Italy's Blue Football Shirts [print this page] In 2006 Italy were crowned champions of the World Cup. As the mood is revving up for South Africa what have Italy's blue football shirts got in store for us. We can see some old friendly faces in their line-up but are some a little old?
Despite half of the teams lineup undergoing a change the Italians will still wear their trademark blue football shirts and football shorts that would instill some fighting spirit to the gritty Italian team. Although pundits are putting off the Italian teams title run this year they will still bring out there fighting form and try to win as much games so they can qualify for the semifinals.
The Italian team being grouped with Slovakia, New Zealand and Paraguay has called the services of the same coach that steered them to victory in 2006. Marcello Lippi taking some time off from coaching football after the successful 2006 campaign comes back at the forefront of the Azurris and tries once more to bring home the bacon. Even though he would have to contend with an aging lineup the team will respond well with Lippi steering them a game at a time.
The players who would be coming back for another title run includes Gigi Buffon the consistent goal keeper of the squad who because of his huge contributions manning that important spot has kept the adversaries from scoring off the Italian team. Playing for the Juventus football club in Italy, Buffon is considered the number 1 goal keeper of the Italian league.
Another stalwart who is returning to the lineup of Team Italy is Fabio Cannavaro the defensive demon who made some key defensive moves in Italy's journey to the 2006 World Cup championship. Now more than ever he would be called upon to lend some leadership on some of the new blood that were added to the lineup. Teaming up with Cannavaro at the defensive end is another returning player in the person of Mauro Camoranesi the two will have to step up to bring out that gem of a defensive strategy in order to start a domino effect on the other players.
Even though the Italian team holds a pattern of winning the World Cup every 12 years this year's team would be hard pressed on winning again simply because age has become a liability in a team that is trying to return to glory once again. Let's see what fighting spirit the men in the blue football shirts and football shorts bring in 2010.
