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Albertini's Italian hopes ««
Demetrio Albertini can easily be counted among the veterans of Italian soccer, and he is only 26.
He has an array of caps to his name already and is a linchpin in the midfield for the national side, just as he is for Milan.
Both he and Paulo Maldini are two of the most influential players in the team and two of the wittiest as well.
Albertini isn't pleased though about the way the Romanians are treating the run-up to the quarter final, he says: "Have you seen the Romanians? They are incredibly sly, the game hasn't started yet and all they can do is whine that they have three players out, that the referee will be on our side and so on, according to them the game is already over."
But Albertini warns: "But we don't but it and it is just an act. We know way too well that we are the ones who have everything to lose while for them it is already a great achievement.
"We will certainly have to be careful no matter how many players they have missing, after all they didn't have Hagi and beat England just the same."

 

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Bulls***.. have u seen the treatment the Eastern European countries have gotten in this tournnment? And what if Totti, Cannavaro, Nesta, and Zambrotta were missing for your team... I AM SURE that there would be a topic with 10 replies saying how you will miss those players, because Popescu, Contra, Ilie and Petrescu are just like the 4 Italians I mentioned to Romania.

 

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It is all media//No big deal..Romanians never found their form...The italians are that kind of team that change the style of play against opponents..
Its just another story to print in the paper/public.

 

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Albertini is 28, born in 1971

so if you got injured players (like Italy with Vieri and Buffon and now Conte because of this stupid slaughter Hagi) this is bad luck
but red and yellow cards, that is your own fault
and did you get what this old man called Hagi said about his sending off? That you would have seen it from an aeroplane that it was a foul, the Italian defender should have been send off
What ridiculous! His dive shows that he was not able to compete with top players anymore, very sad display, Hagi. You missed the point to finish your career, like Lothar Matthäus did, too.

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