After R.Baggio, Cannavaro is the best Italian player??????????
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Roby Baggio will always be my favorite player, Cannavaro is a great player but no comparison with Baggio, Maldini, Del Piero or Totti, Nesta I would put him in the same category as Cannavro.
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Let's hope the Italians do!!!!
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First of all I think this 2 facts have nothing to do with each other since Cannavaro was an extraordinary captain for Italy and played extremely good during the WC and Buffon too, but the other thing is that they were not involved in the scandal. There were gossips that Buffon was involved in illegal betting but they were never proved the same for Cannavaro, there were voices he somehow acted in a not sportive way when he moved from Inter to Juve but that was it. I' m not saying they are completely innocent coz I don't know, but I know they played amazingly well this WC and brought Italy to the win of the trophy. Is there anyone else that deserves to win those prizes? I think yes. It's Pirlo who was the director of the Italian team and all the important things were created by him and there are other non-Italians too coz I think a player should win those prizes if he plays very well during all the season even if he didn't win anything at the end or didn't play in any important final. But anyway, it seems those are the rules.
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i think the underlying Q is, does he deserve it?  the guy's got skills certainly but i could name several defenders who did a better job than him. he was hyped up by the media bec. italy needed a hero and sorry to say this, but there wasn't one who really stood out in the team, not even buffon bec. lehmann was light years better than him. jens had a LOT of defending to do and he shone at his job. maybe i'm blind, ignorant, biased, etc. but i saw all of italy's games xcept for that match with australia and i wasn't impressed with cannavaro at all. it was zambrotta and pirlo (to a lesser degree) who got my attention. cannavaro prob. got it bec. some ppl perversely felt something had to be rectified with the "premature" voting in the world cup which resulted in the "erroneous" giving of the golden ball to zidane and cannavaro having placed # 2 in that voting, was the logical beneficiary of the token act. that's ok if we confine it to performances in the wc but i get the sense that the ballon d'or had a wider criteria and as in the past, league performances had to be taken into account as well, not just the wc. which is where, in my limited understanding, this award goes terribly wrong bec. if that was  done then the prize should have gone to someone else. anyway, that's just my opi and i'm no certainly no expert.
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Mouais, c'est clair. Cannavaro ballon d'or !!! On aura tout vu !!!! A la rigueur Buffon, mais pas Cannavaro !!!! 15 joueurs le méritent plus que Cannavaro !!!!\nA croire qu'il a fait comme avec la Juve et qu'il a truqué ces résultats là aussi.... \nSi, je suis d'accord avec toi, le ballon d'or se tue de lui-même.\nEn tout cas, il faut pas oublier que la FIFA remet son prix du meilleur joueur ! ET pour moi, c'est ce titre qui a de l'importance. L'autre, on s'en fout !
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Do I absolutely have to pick just one??\n\nItalians Alessandro Nesta and  Fabio Cannavaro and maybe Massimo Oddo!!!
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Yeah, too many Italians...... toooooo many!!!! But if they were not here, with whom would I argue with.... others don't care about Cannavaro!!!!!
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I don`t care about the full points. You asked about the most good looking and it`s surely not Ronaldinho. He is for the moment the best player in the world yes, but the most handsome,in my opinion is the other brazilian Kaka`. He has a great talent too and he will become one of the biggest in the future.
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i think buffon will be just as good. :) \n\nbut i cant imagine the italian team without cannavaro. :(
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Cannavaro plays for Real Madrid. Solksjaer and Owen are gorgeous, but my heart belongs to Ryan Giggs, and has done for about 10 years. Man United all the way; we're top of the Premiership where we belong!
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MEE!!!! ITALY IS THE BEST COUNTRY!! Italians like me are the coolest people! They will beat Usa ghana and the cheqs down!! It will be italy and brazil making it  to the finals
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i very much doubt it he wont recover in time..but dont worry italy has lot more better players!
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Unfortunately, I'd have to say no.  But there's nobody who'd love to see 'Il Divin Codino' play again.  There were few before him that had the magic and skill that he possessed, and even fewer after him.  When a man that is 'too old' is the third highest scorer in Serie A, behind Christian Vieri and Francesco Totti in 2000, for player selected to the National team, and he didn't get selected, you know something is wrong with the higher-ups.  4 goals in 4 games in the '98 World Cup, his last international tournament.  He was a clutch player, who (almost) always came through when the team needed him most.  Ignorant football fans wish to talk down about him because of one penalty miss.  English have gotten over Beckam...and Batty, and Southgate, and the list goes on and on for them.  The Dutch forgave De Boer, and he missed TWO in the SAME GAME!  The best players throughout history, have failed at least once, and that's what makes them great.  You have to lose to win.  I do believe only 5 players have ever scored over 200 Serie A goals, him being one of them.  Pretty impressive for a career, plagued with serious knee injuries (many of them career-threatening, mainly the one when he was 18, and the doctors said his career was finished.)  A winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon D'or.  Scorer of one of the greatest World Cup goals ever scored (sorry Czech Republic, or Czechoslovakia, as they were known then).  Over the last 6-8 years, the problem with the National team has been their lack of creativity, lack of vision.  There's no more magic in the Azzurri.  Primarily because there's no Roby.  Euro '96 could have been different if it wasn't for Arigo Sacchi.  How could you not pick the man that single handledly took the country to the final of the World Cup, just two years before.  Sadly, this has been a serious problem in Italian football for years.  It really is a shame, that due to injuries and the ignorance and stupidity of the managers, coaches and officials in the Italian game, we barely got to see what Roberto Baggio was really capable of.  \n\nHell, he was transfered from Inter Milan because he refused to tell the coach (Lippi, god I love him, but he fucked up!) which players were criticizing him.\n\nFucking politics!\n\nBy the way, one of my favourite moments has go to be when in 1998, Euro 2000, when Alessandro Del Piero came out, the Italian fans were all chanting 'Roby! Roby!'.  It's absolutely beautiful that some never forget the greats.  \n\nIn case anyone is interested, you can search for this on the net.  I seen a picture once of a banner that some Azzurri fans had brought to an International game.  It read Pele + Maradona = Baggio.  I'm not quite sure about that, but if you aren't aware of Baggios' true talent, check some clips in the net of him.  His skills were very comparable to Maradona.\n\nAnd to the ignorant fools that say he'd too old.  You obviously know nothing about football.  Ever heard of Roger Milla?  And on top of that, check some clips of Baggio in his last couple of seasons, mainly the goals against Lazio, Udinese, Inter and Juventus.  Sheer class!\n\nBy the way, who was the first ever Golden Foot winner in 2003?  Beating the likes of Batistuta, Romario, Zidane, Figo and Giggs?  That's right...Baggio!\n\nForever in our hearts, Baggio, the last of the fantasia.
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ITALIA!!! TOTTI IS MY HERO!!!
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HELL YA.....\nGOLDEN BOOTS FOR TONI...\nBEST PLAYER FOT TOTTI....\nFORZA AZZURI...
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Andriy Shevchenko / then tied between Frank Lampard / Steven Gerrard\n\nWell, I would say the best players are ones who make the entire team better (through a combination of leadership and also because he is so dangerous on his own that the other team needs to pay more attention, leaving his teammates to cause damage).  Great players can also take over on their own when needed, especially in clutch/difficult situations.\n\nSo, I believe Ronaldinho is the best player in the world, but the second best player should probably be Wayne Rooney.  He causes so much havoc for the other team, injects so much energy into the team spirit and can either take over a game or free up his team to cause damage (Ruud Van Nistelrooy, e.g.).\n\nBut, Man U have not been performing, so the team would have to be Chelsea - therefore, must be Frank Lampard because he can do so many things.  Steven Gerrard plays a similar role, and he is clutch, but I think they both come behind Andriy Shevchenko who scores goals (leads Serie A every year), wins leagues, wins the European Champions League (or gets his team to the final), and makes his teammates better.  So, Andriy Shevchenko!\n\nThierry Henry, if he ever produced in clutch games, would be in this list as well.
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I listed the BEST players of football. ( I didn't list Maradona because he don't win any World Player of the Year Awards and also because hes awards are less than these players. Listed Pele cos hes the top of the top and that's why he is the God of football)\n\nPele (No doubt, hes the 'God of Football')\n\nDidi (probably you've never heard about Didi but hes a midfielder player who was sought after by many European big clubs. He captained Brazil to their first world Cup final win against Sweden which they won 5 - 2 in 1954 and won the FIFA World Cup Best Player)  \n\nRonaldo (Three times World Player of the Year!) And much more! Here are the rest of his awards.\nDutch League Top Scorer (96)\nFIFA World Player of the Year (96, 97, 02)\nWorld Soccer Player of the Year (96, 97, 02)\nU-21 European Footballer of the Year (97, 98)\nSpanish Liga Primera Top Scorer (97, 04)\nEuropean Footballer of the Year (97, 02)\nFIFA World Cup MVP (98, 02)\nItalian League Footballer of the Year (98)\nCopa America Top Scorer (99)\nFIFA World Cup Top Scorer (02)\nIntercontinental Cup MVP (02)\n\nZinedine Zidane\nFrench Young Footballer of the Year (94)\nEuropean Footballer of the Year (98)\nFIFA World Player of the Year (98, 00)\nWorld Soccer Player of the Year (98)\nFrench Footballer of the Year (98, 02)\nEuro Cup MVP (00)\nUCL Best Player (02)\nSpanish Super Cup (03)\n\nAlfredo Di Stefano \n(A legendary player who played for Real Madrid and helped them lifted up 5 consecutives European Championships! Hes a magician! Heres his individual awards that'll amaze you how good he have been. Much better than his fellow Aregentinian Diego Maradona)\n\nArgentinean League Top Scorer (1947)\nColombian League Top Scorer (1951, 1952)\nSpanish League Top Scorer (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959)\nEuropean Footballer of the Year (1957, 1959)