Italy Offside Serie A End of Season Awards

By: Francesco | May 19th, 2008

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So now that the season has come to a close, let’s get everyones opinion on who was the best at everything. We’ll use the Oscar del Calcio format, so be sure to choose:

Best Italian Player
Best Foreign Player
Best Young Player
Best Goalkeeper
Best Defender
Best Midfielder
Best Striker
Surprise Player of the Season
Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian)
Best Coach
Most Surprising Team
Most Disappointing Team
and if you want, your Serie A Best XI

My picks after the jump:

My picks are:

Best Italian Player: Alessandro Del Piero
Best Foreign Player: Adrian Mutu
Best Young Player: Sebastian Giovinco
Best Goalkeeper: Sebastian Frey
Best Defender: Giorgio Chiellini
Best Midfielder: Daniele De Rossi
Best Striker: Marco Borriello
Best Serie A Player: Javier Zanetti
Surprise Player of the Season: Christian Maggio
Best Coach: Tough choice between Spalletti and Prandelli. It’s a tie for me.
Most Surprising Team: The two Genoa clubs, Genoa and Sampdoria
Most Disappointing Team: Parma

Serie A Best XI-
4-3-3
Frey- Maggio, Nesta, Chiellini, Dossena- Cambiasso, De Rossi, J. Zanetti- Di Natale, Trezeguet, Del Piero

subs: Buffon, Mexes, Gamberini, Palombo, Montolivo, Camoranesi, Cassano, Ibrahimovic, Mutu

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So, Offside Readers, post your Serie A 2007/2008 awards in the comments!

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• mele419 |  May 19th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  
  
  

  Most Disappointing Team: Milan.

  Posted from United States

  

• A.A.S. |  May 19th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian: Del Piero… Making 30 somethings proud. Dude plays tough, doesn’t seem to complain, and could have shut it down and sulked after getting shunned by the national team (deservedly so after the France debacle) and, to a lesser degree, by Rainieri in the middle of the year.

  I never was much of a fan, but watching made me realize that I should have been.

  Best Foreign: Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Has the coolest name and was pretty dominant until the injury (and the Champions League). Plus, he single-handedly killed Parma on Saturday, sending my team to the Hell of Serie B.

  Best Young Player: So many choices here… If Serie A can keep all these guys around, then it could return to dominance. Just for the hell of it, I’m going with Ricardo Montolivo here.

  Best Goalkeeper: Frey. No doubt.

  Best Defender: Chiellini (since he would have been my other choice for best young player). He’s Materazzi without all the shenanigans.

  Best Midfielder: He was hurt, a lot, during the season but, when he played, Mauro Camoranesi was invaluable to Juventus.

  Best Forward: Gotta put Del Piero here, again. He did it all this year.

  Surprise Player: Marco Boriello.

  Best Serie A Player: Del Piero… I swear I own no black and white striped shirts. The dude just had a great year.

  Best Coach: (Tie) Di Carlo and Cuper… No really, though, Cesare Prandelli is the man here.

  Most Surprising Team: Napoli

  Most Disappointing Team: Parma. Not that they necessarily would have been in the top half of the table, but they had the talent to finish 12th or 13th.

  Posted from United States

  

• A |  May 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  
  
  

  “most disappointing player i mean he didnt have help but he wasnt exactly a world beater like normal this year: kaka”

  This guy topped Milan’s scorers chart; topped Milan’s setups chart and got the most free kicks in the season and he’s still deemed here as “disappointing”.

  The expectations are truly enormous.

  Posted from Australia

  

• Hana |  May 19th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Alessa Alessa! Del Piero
  Best Foreign Player: Ibrahimovic. Only Inter player I’ll admit to liking a whole lot…because really, the man’s just brilliant.
  Best Young Player: Alexandre Pato…Ale Duckie! One of the few very bright spots of our season.
  Best Goalkeeper: Sebastian Frey. As the hilarious Italian commentator said during Inter v Viola…Ibra, Ibra…FREY! FREY!
  Best Defender: Phillou. Yay Mexes.
  Best Midfielder: DDR/ Ambrosini. First one, not much needs to be said. Ambro has hands down been the most consistent player for Milan this season, and he has done it all…badass defending, runs up top, dispossession in midfield. Another one of our few bright spots this season, acts as an excellent captain when Paolo Maldini has been out.
  Best Striker: Alessa/Ibra. Both have been a complete joy to watch, even though Ibra has been plagued with injury.
  Surprise Player of the Season: Marco Borriello. Rock On. Also, Vucinic/Vucigol.
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian): DDR like it’s hot.
  Best Coach: Cesare Prandelli, hands down.
  Most Surprising Team: Juve/Samp/Viola
  Most Disappointing Team: *cues Milan theme song* Meelan…Meelan…I’m sure the 10 or so other Rossoneri that posted in here can sigh along with me.

  Posted from United States

  

• Marco P. |  May 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Alessandro Del Piero
  Best Foreign Player: Marek Hamsik
  Best Young Player: Sebastian Giovinco / Alexandre Pato / Mario Balotelli
  Best Goalkeeper: Julio Cesar / Sebastien Frey
  Best Defender: Giorgio Chiellini
  Best Midfielder: Daniele De Rossi
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise Player of the Season: Alessandro Del Piero / Marek Hamsik / Marco Borriello
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian): Alessandro Del Piero
  Best Coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most Surprising Team: Napoli
  Most Disappointing Team: Milan / Parma
  Serie A Best XI: Julio Cesar - Panucci, Chiellini, Mexès, J.Zanetti - Camoranesi, De Rossi, Cambiasso, Cassano - Ibrahimovic, Del Piero

  Posted from Australia

  

• Johonna |  May 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Daniele De Rossi
  Best Foreign Player: J. Zanetti
  Best Young Player: Paloschi (what a first touch) or Balotelli
  Best Goalkeeper: Julio Cesar
  Best Defender: Materazzi (I know, but I love him)
  Best Midfielder: Daniele De Rossi
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero (he earned it)
  Surprise Player of the Season: Cassano (I thought he was through)
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian): Ibra (when he is on, he is ON)
  Best Coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most Surprising Team: Sampdoria
  Most Disappointing Team: Milan or Palermo (I expected both to finish much higher in the table)

  Posted from United States

  

• adam |  May 19th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO
  Best Foreign Player: FREY
  Best Young Player: CHIELLINI
  Best Goalkeeper: FREY
  Best Defender: CHIELLINI
  Best Midfielder: DANIELIE DE ROSSI
  Best Striker: ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO
  Surprise Player of the Season: BORIELLO
  Best Serie A Player: ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO
  Best Coach: CESARE PRANDELLI
  Most Surprising Team: NAPOLI
  Most Disappointing Team: A.C. MILAN

  Posted from Australia

  

• brief |  May 20th, 2008 at 2:49 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Alessandro del Piero
  Best Foreign player: Adrian Mutu
  Best Young player: Alexandre Pato
  Best Goalkeeper: Julio Cesar
  Best Defender: Ivan Cordoba
  Best Midfielder: Patrick Vieira (when he’s on)
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise player of the season: Mario Balotelli
  Best Serie A player: Javier Zanetti
  Best coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most surprising team: Fiorentina/Napoli
  Most disappointing team: Milan

  Posted from Indonesia

  

• jamie |  May 20th, 2008 at 4:37 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Alessandro Del Piero
  Best Foreign Player: Super Ibraaa!
  Best Young player: Mario Balotelli/ Alexandre Pato/ Roberto Acquafresca
  Best Goalkeeper: Sebastian Frey (bastard kept Everton out of uefa cup :p)
  Best Defender: Maicon (in terms of attacking) Mexes (errr..defensively)
  Best Midfielder: Cambiasso
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise player of the season: Marek Hamsik/ Christian Maggio
  Best Serie A player: Alex del piero
  Best coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most surprising team: Napoli/ Firenze
  Most disappointing team: Milan/ Palermo

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Il Biscione Nerazzuro |  May 20th, 2008 at 7:42 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: On pure talent alone, Cassano.
  Best Foreign Player: Love him or hate him, Zlatan it is.
  Best Young player: Balotelli and/or Pato
  Best Goalkeeper: Julio Cesar or Frey. Grande Portieri!!
  Best Defender: Christian Maggio
  Best Midfielder: Esteban Cambiasso
  Best Striker: Marco Borriello no question. Other top strikers/goal scorers had better supporting casts than he did.
  Surprise player of the season: Alessandro Del Piero. No one could have predicted he’d do so well.
  Best Serie A player: Javier Zanetti. No one is better at what they do, and not many have as much class.
  Best coach: Cesare Prandelli by far!
  Most surprising team: Milan. What a nice 5th place surprise from the “world champions!”
  Most disappointing team: Empoli. 7th last term to relegated this term and a league low 29 goals for.

  Posted from Australia

  

• salvatore |  May 20th, 2008 at 7:48 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Del Piero
  Best Foreign player: Ezequiel Lavezzi
  Best Young player: Marek Hamsik/ Lorenzo De Silvestri
  Best Goalkeeper: Sebastien Frey
  Best Defender: Maldini (just cuz)
  Best Midfielder: Ricardo Montolivo
  Best Striker: Marco Boriello
  Surprise player of the season: Marco Boriello
  Best Serie A player: Kaka
  Best coach: Cesare Prandelli/ Walter Mazzari
  Most surprising team: Sampdoria
  Most disappointing team: Milan

  Posted from Canada

  

• Jeremy |  May 20th, 2008 at 8:14 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Totti
  Best Foreign Player: Ibrahimovic
  Best Young player: Acquafresca
  Best Goalkeeper: Storari(biggest no brainer answer)
  Best Defender: Mexes
  Best Midfielder: Kaka
  Best Striker: Amauri
  Surprise player of the season: Storari
  Best Serie A player: DeRossi
  Best coach: Ballardini
  Most surprising team: Genoa
  Most disappointing team: Milan

  Posted from United States

  

• Joe |  May 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian player- Antonio Cassano
  Foreign Player- Adrian Mutu
  Young Player- Marek Hamsik
  Goalie- Sebastian Frey
  Defender-
  Midfielder- Danielle De Rossi
  Forward- Zlatan Ibrahimovic/ Amauri
  Surprise player of the season- Fabiano Santacroce
  Best Serie A player- Can’t decide
  Best Coach- Cesare Prandelli
  Most Surprising Team- Napoli
  Most Disappointing Team- A.C. Milan

  Posted from United States

  

• NickyViola |  May 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Tough to say
  Best Foreign player: Zlatan
  Best Young player: Acquafresca
  Best Goalkeeper: Frey
  Best Defender: Gamberini
  Best Midfielder: Cambiasso
  Best Striker: ADP, I guess.
  Surprise player of the season: Maggio
  Best Serie A player: Too much trouble deciding
  Best coach: Mazzarri (not even close… Last year, too)
  Most surprising team: Atalanta
  Most disappointing team: Palermo

  Posted from United States

  

• CMP (ASR) |  May 21st, 2008 at 5:01 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian player- Daniele De Rossi
  Foreign Player- Adrian Mutu
  Young Player- Daniele Dessena
  Goalie- Sebastian Frey
  Defender- Maldini (we’l miss ou)
  Midfielder- Daniele De Rossi
  Forward- Amauri
  Surprise player of the season- Marco Boriello
  Best Serie A player- Daniele De Rossi
  Best Coach- Spalletti
  Most Surprising Team- Genoa
  Most Disappointing Team- A.C. Milan

  Posted from Denmark

  

• J. Kenly Townsend |  May 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player–Di Rossi
  Best Foreign Player–Ibra
  Best Young Player–Balotelli
  Best Goalkeeper–Julio Caesar
  Best Defender–Maicon
  Best Midfielder–Cambiasso
  Best Striker–Ibra
  Surprise Player of the Season–Viera
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian)–Ibra
  Best Coach–Mancini
  Most Surprising Team–Siena
  Most Disappointing Team–Inter (for dropping the 14 point lead and sucking in Champions League)

  Posted from United States

  

• NiDi |  May 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: CASSANO !!!!
  Best Foreign Player: Trezuguet
  Best Young Player: Pato
  Best Goalkeeper: Il BUFF !
  Best Defender: Mexes
  Best Midfielder: De Rossi (without question)
  Best Striker: CassanO!!!!
  Surprise Player of the Season: Cassano
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian):CASSANO !!!!!
  Best Coach: Spaletti
  Most Surprising Team: Siena
  Most Disappointing Team: AC Milan

  Posted from Australia

  

• NiDi |  May 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  
  
  

  I can honestly say that I think all joking aside Mexes was the best defender in Serie A this year. There were a countless number of occasions where it was only him making the difference between a goal or not. Especially with the volatile DOni in Goal, he helped bring Roma a long way. Whether you are a Roma fan or not, you can’t deny his quality.

  Posted from Australia

  

• NiDi |  May 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  
  
  

  And final coment, after doing some excel work, Daniele De Rossi appears the most for any category as midfielder. Guess we are all in agreement there.

  Posted from Australia

  

• Sofia |  May 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  
  
  

  when are the oscar del calcio awards???

  Posted from Canada

  

• ursus arctos |  May 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  
  
  

  Late January, usually.

  Posted from Italy

  

• alessio |  May 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Alessandro Del Piero
  Best Foreign Player: Adrian Mutu
  Best Young Player: Mario Balotelli
  Best Goalkeeper: Julio Cesar
  Best Defender: Giorgio Chiellini
  Best Midfielder: Daniele De Rossi
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise Player of the Season: For good? Hamsik. For bad? Tiago.
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian): Alessandro Del Piero
  Best Coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most Surprising Team: GENOA
  Most Disappointing Team: Empoli
  Serie A Best XI: Julio Cesar- Maggio, Chiellini, Nesta, Maldini- Camoranesi De Rossi Ambrosini - Del Piero Trezeguet Di Natale

  Posted from United States

  

• Il Divin Codino |  May 24th, 2008 at 10:44 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Cassano
  Best Foreign Player: Ibra
  Best Young Player: Sebastian Giovinco, future calcio legend
  Best Goalkeeper: Frey
  Best Midfielder: Daniele De Rossi, we all know why Real Madrid are so interested in his services
  Best Defender: Chiellini
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise Player of the Season: Cassano
  Best Serie A Player (Best Overall, Foreign or Italian): Alessandro Del Piero, remarkable season retorna un gran talento.
  Best Coach: Cesare Prandelli
  Most Surprising Team: genoa
  Most Disappointing Team: empoli
  Serie A Best XI: Frey- Maggio, Chiellini, Nesta, Zanetti- Camoranesi Pirlo De Rossi - Cassano(playmaker) Del Piero Ibrahimovic

  Posted from Brazil

  

• Rahim |  May 26th, 2008 at 2:03 am

  
  
  

  Best Italian Player: Del Piero
  Best Foreign player: Ezequiel Lavezzi
  Best Young player: Lorenzo De Silvestri
  Best Goalkeeper: Sebastien Frey
  Best Defender: Maldini
  Best Midfielder: Ricardo Montolivo
  Best Striker: Alessandro Del Piero
  Surprise player of the season: Marco Boriello
  Best Serie A player: Kaka
  Best coach: Cesare Prandelli/ Walter Mazzari
  Most surprising team: Sampdoria
  Most disappointing team: Milan Milan and Milan

  Posted from Australia

  

• J. Kenly Townsend |  May 28th, 2008 at 7:31 am

  
  
  

  How about:

  Laziest player
  Biggest diver
  Most viscious tackler

  Posted from United States

  

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