And the Bidone D’Oro (Golden Trash Can Award) goes to…

By: Francesco | December 8th, 2008

In Italy, famous players that flop at top clubs, big money transfers that wind up not fulfilling their potential, or players that just plain flat-out stink are given the title “bidone“, which means “trash can” (or “rubbish can” for the UK). So every year, Radio Rai Due gives out the “Bidone D’Oro“, or “Golden Trash Can” Award to the biggest “bidone” of the season. The fans vote on the website and through SMS and in the end the votes are tallied and the award is given out. As the picture shows, this year the award went to Inter’s Portuguese winger Ricardo Quaresma. Quaresma was the signing that Mourinho urged Massimo Moratti to make, and 20 million euro later, he has proven to be a flop. The Portuguese winger has had trouble showing the talent and skill he showed at Porto and hasn’t put in good performances at all. In fact he has just been ridiculed for his tendency to always hit the ball with the outside of his boot (his trademark “trivela“) and it seems like he doesn’t know how to hit it any other way. Even for a simple 2 yard pass he’ll execute the trivela. In recent weeks Mourinho hasn’t even played him as much, and unless he improves he will be considered one of the worst signings of the summer transfer window. Full results of the Bidone D’Oro award after the jump.

BIDONE D’ORO 2008

1st place- Ricardo Quaresma
2nd place- Christian Vieri
3rd place- Adriano
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4th place- Ronaldo
5th place- Dida
6th place- Andriiy Shevchenko
7th place- Simone Loria
8th place- Alvaro Recoba
9th place- Tiago
10th place- Joaquin Larrivey

Category: AC Milan, Atalanta, Cagliari, Inter Milan, Juventus, Players, Roma, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: AC Milan, Adriano, Atalanta, Bobo Vieri, Cagliari, Calcio, football, Futbol, Inter, Inter Milan, Italy, Juventus, Players, Ricardo Quaresma, Roma, Rumors & News, Serie A, Soccer, Torino

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• ricci |  December 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am

  
  
  

  Andrea Raggi deserves top 3 status. 7 million for a RB who is slow, can’t defend and sure as hell can’t attack. Shit, he makes Mattia Cassani looks like Dani Alves.

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• LorenzoRosanero |  December 8th, 2008 at 9:48 am

  
  
  

  Dude, exactly…how in the world is Raggi not on this list? Adriano at least has scored some goals. Raggi has been pure merda for the 2 appearances he was allowed to make.

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• Colin |  December 8th, 2008 at 10:18 am

  
  
  

  Raggi is actually quite quick, he just can’t make up his mind where he wants to run too and gets confused so he looks slow, adn he should be on that list for sure.

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• Rob |  December 8th, 2008 at 10:23 am

  
  
  

  Seems a bit early in his Serie A career to be writing him off completely.

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• LorenzoRosanero |  December 8th, 2008 at 11:13 am

  
  
  

  Another guy who should definitely be on this list is Fiorentina’s Vargas. That guy has been utter garbage this whole year. And to think, he had tons of teams after him.

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• Johonna |  December 8th, 2008 at 11:51 am

  
  
  

  Oh man. The poor kid. This is not going to help him at all.

  I think there is still hope for him.

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• Steven |  December 8th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  
  
  

  Yeah, as a Lega Pro gigolo.

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• alessio |  December 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  
  
  

  Yeah, Lorenzo’s right.

  Raggi’s probably not on the list because Palermo didn’t fork out a huge fee for him.

  There’s a video on Uefa.com about RQ77 showing off the trivela, and he says “I love the trivela. I always will try and kick with the outside of my boot whenever possible.” Doesn’t bode well.

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• LorenzoRosanero |  December 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

  
  
  

  One trick pony, anyone?

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• shingi |  December 8th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

  
  
  

  How does Ronaldo make this list? He wasn’t even signed in 2008, and he did score 9 in 20 games, which while not amazing, isn’t garbage. What gives?

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• Vinny |  December 8th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

  
  
  

  i know they didn’t pay too much for him but can anyone say John Arne Riise… that guy is shambolic as some would say!… At least he can’t take consolation in know if the goal was on top of row XX he would hit it

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• Ro |  December 8th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

  
  
  

  I’m kinda feeling bad for Adriano he keeps getting on that list…lol

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• Julian |  December 8th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  
  
  

  Adriano’s having a pretty decent year this year. Not back to his best but he’s playing very creatively and unpredictably, which is a bad thing for defenses.

  Can’t believe how much of a stinker Quaresma’s turned out to be though

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• roberto |  December 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  
  
  

  he’s a gypsy, what do you want?

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• Nnahoj |  December 10th, 2008 at 12:05 am

  
  
  

  Throw Inter’s entire team in that bin along with Quaresma.

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• Pistoia Libre |  December 15th, 2008 at 11:46 am

  
  
  

  Nnahoj, throw inter on pile?

  huh?

  what happened to shev? wasnt even injured. just lost the plot.

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