Massimo Oddo starting anew in Germany
By: Francesco | September 5th, 2008
One of the Italians to move abroad this summer was World Cup winning fullback (and team barber) Massimo Oddo. The 32 year old right back had a nightmare season last year. He wasn’t himself at all, he played poorly, all his crosses ended up in Row Z, and he found himself left out of the national team set-up, missing Euro 2008. Oddo needed a fresh start, and with players like Gianluca Zambrotta and Daniele Bonera ahead of him in the pecking order, he decided to make a move.
He states his reasoning was he didn’t feel like an important player for Milan anymore, and it was a decision made by both him and the Milan management. But why Bayern? At first it seemed Lyon were all set to sign him. Oddo even admits that Fabio Grosso, Lyon manager Claude Puel, and president Jean-Michel Aulas were constantly calling him and telling him to move to France. He said he knew Bayern were interested because Luca Toni told him, and then one day Karl-Heinz Rummenige and Jurgen Klinsmann called him up and convinced him to move to Bavaria. He said the importance of a club like Bayern factored in.
Oddo made his first appearance for the German champions in Oliver Kahn’s farewell match and was praised by manager Klinsmann and midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger. Klinsmann said, “Oddo played an excellent match. He is adapated to our way of playing and knows how to pass and read the play”. Schweinsteiger said, “I already know how he plays from playing vs him with Milan and the national team and he is very good. Bayern added a lot of quality by signing Oddo.”
So with a new club and a new adventure, Oddo may finally get his career back on track and once began become one of the top Italian fullbacks.
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Karma and irony might gang up on Milan this year as Oddo and Gilardino each experience a renaissance of form.
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It’s not karma or irony at all.
They just didn’t fit in, and had a bad season. They didn’t work well with the way the team was set up, and that was that.Posted from
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When Oddo was on he was awesome, because unlike Zambro the man could flat out defend. What Zambro did in the attack Oddo counter on defense which is why he fit in nicely upon his arrival at Milan, but also in the lead up to the CL 07 final. The fact that Milan chose to let him leave on loan while retaining a guy like Janks is a prime example of team that has lost it’s way when it comes to make decisions appropriate for themselves and for the National Team, and now with Flamini bitching about playing D this move looks even more unintelligent.
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“…lost it’s way when it comes to make decisions appropriate for themselves and for the National Team…”
Yes. That the team should be owned by no less than the PM of the country while it enriches and strengthens foreigners while cutting or denying raises to Italian World Champions only heightens the irony for me.
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Does it matter if they’re world cup champions?
Not at all.
That was two years ago, and two years can make a huge difference in some one’s career. Oddo isn’t what Milan want anymore, and foreign players may have better skill than Italians.
If you want to bitch about a team full of foreigners go to the Inter offside.Posted from
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Ha! I miss the days when one could complain about foreigners in Italy and only have to point at Inter! ;^p
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sorry, this has nothing to do with italian or non – italian…the point is that milan needed defenders…yes, oddo had a rotten season, his balls sometimes could be seen in orbit but we needed a defender and to let him go was plain stupid….thanks, gf for the zambro point – have been saying that ad nauseum, we need people to fall back and defend, we do NOT need an attacking full back in a team bloody overflowing with attacking players….
what happened to the milan which bred world class defenders…read a funny comment somewhere on the offside today where they said having senderos play alongside maldini in his last season is an insult to the best defender in the world, its like having baresi play alongside titus bramble in his last season – lol!Posted from
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