Lithuania v Italy: Totti Who?

By: Martha | June 7th, 2007

In practically his first words after leaving the touchline yesterday, Roberto Donadoni was bringing up that Totti Thing again, smugly telling the press “there will be a little less discussion about those who are absent, knowing we have excellent players at our disposal.” Oh, snap! That’s telling them, gaffer!

Of course, Donadoni can be forgiven for feeling fairly pleased with himself under the circumstances — after several days of intense pressure and questioning of his team and his ability as a coach, his squad finally turned in a solid performance and, oh yeah, a guy he took a flier on scored two spectacular goals. Overall, it was a pretty good day at work for the lot of them, apart from maybe Antonio Di Natale, who couldn’t finish to save his life.

While it’s hard to know what the public reaction to the result would be had the Faroes match not been quite so dire, word on the street has it that Pippo was once again Super, Pirlo was godly, and a guy named Quagliarella (AKA “the tip of the Sampdoria“) was, eh, alright. As a whole the performance was, at the very least, miles better than the last one, and everyone is happy to go on vacation (Vacation was practically all any of the players could talk about after the match — think they’re worn out?) with a pair of great goals and a comfortable win over a fairly crap team.

Category: Azzurri, Results, Serie A

Tags: Azzurri, Donadoni, Inzaghi, Lithuania, Pirlo, Quagliarella, Results, Sampdoria, Serie A

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• Chris |  June 7th, 2007 at 6:06 am

  
  
  

  Someone needs to tell The Don to stop messing with the monstrosity that is Totti’s ego.

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• Muddia Dome |  June 7th, 2007 at 7:46 am

  
  
  

  I agree Chris, but Fab Quags (my new nickname for him) was ridiculous. Saw the highlights of those goals, man. Awesome.

  Incidentally Martha, might you need to do some digging into who Quagliarella is with as a possible WAG of the Week? Since my initial post suggesting such a weekly posting (which I point to with pride each time a forward a new WAG to a buddy) I try not to suggest/request, but Quags deserves it.

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• Marcello |  June 7th, 2007 at 9:03 am

  
  
  

  Fab Quags, thats a better nickname then the ones I gave him, like Quagermole or Guacamole.

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• Martha |  June 7th, 2007 at 9:25 am

  
  
  

  Don’t be so hard on yourself, Marcello — I quite like Guacamole as his nickname, myself.

  Muddia, I can’t find a damn thing about Quags and anyone of the female persuasion. Is it possible he’s a eunuch? (If not, he surely will have a showgirl girlfriend by the end of the month now that he’s an Azzurri Superstar and all.)

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• tmc |  June 7th, 2007 at 9:31 am

  
  
  

  I see your point Chris, but the Don has to be sick of constantly answering questions about a player that is not there. Sure, Totti is great, but gli azzuri can still put together a nice squad without him.

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• Muddia Dome |  June 7th, 2007 at 9:58 am

  
  
  

  That’s all good Martha. Fab Quags’ lady can wait. I’m sure you’ll come up with someone, just hopefully not linked to Pippo.

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• Martha |  June 7th, 2007 at 10:11 am

  
  
  

  *cough*

  I tried, Muddia! Really, I did! You have no idea how many women he’s dated — it’s really getting disturbing.

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• Chris |  June 7th, 2007 at 10:18 am

  
  
  

  What can you say about Pippo? He might not be talented or look good doing it but the guy just knows how to penetrate defenses and score.

  I’ll leave now.

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• Martha |  June 7th, 2007 at 10:19 am

  
  
  

  So to speak.

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