Fiorentina striker Giuseppe Rossi was the major absentee when Italy coach
Cesare Prandelli named his 23-man FIFA World Cup™ squad on Sunday. Rossi's exclusion was perhaps not a huge surprise as he missed four months of the season due to injury and did not have enough time to rediscover his form and fitness to convince Prandelli of his worth.
Cesare Prandelli named his 23-man FIFA World Cup™ squad on Sunday. Rossi's exclusion was perhaps not a huge surprise as he missed four months of the season due to injury and did not have enough time to rediscover his form and fitness to convince Prandelli of his worth.
Another missing from the list was AC Milan midfielder Riccardo Montolivo, whose World Cup ambitions ended when he suffered a broken leg in Saturday's warm-up against Republic of Ireland. Versatile Napoli attacking player Lorenzo Insigne instead joins forwards Mario Balotelli and Ciro Immobile on the plane to Brazil.
Italy are in Group D alongside England, Uruguay and Costa Rica.
Italy squadGoalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris Saint-Germain), Mattia Perin (Genoa)
Saint-Germain), Mattia Perin (Genoa)
Defenders: Ignazio Abate (AC Milan), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Torino), Mattia De Sciglio (AC Milan), Gabriel Paletta (Parma)
), Mattia De Sciglio (AC Milan), Gabriel Paletta (Parma)
Midfielders: Alberto Aquilani (Fiorentina), Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Thiago Motta (Paris Saint-Germain), Marco Parolo (Parma), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
Forwards: Mario Balotelli (AC Milan), Antonio Cassano (Parma), Alessio Cerci (Torino), Ciro Immobile (Torino), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli)
* Squad lists are only official once they have been confirmed and published by FIFA on 5 June at 12:00 CET.
FIFA World Cup Historical Facts Golden Boots
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup
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Year
|
Champion
|
Golden
Boot
|
Golden
Ball
|
|
2010
|
Spain
|
Thomas
Müller (5)
|
Diego
Forlán
|
|
2006
|
Italy
|
Miroslav
Klose (5)
|
Zinedine
Zidane
|
|
2002
|
Brazil
|
Ronaldo
(8)
|
Oliver
Kahn
|
|
1998
|
France
|
Davor
Šuker (6)
|
Ronaldo
|
|
1994
|
Brazil
|
O.
Salenko,H. Stoichkov (6)
|
Romário
|
|
1990
|
West
Germany
|
Salvatore
Schillaci (6)
|
Salvatore
Schillaci
|
|
1986
|
Argentina
|
Gary
Lineker (6)
|
Diego
Maradona
|
|
1982
|
Italy
|
Paolo
Rossi (6)
|
Paolo
Rossi
|
|
1978
|
Argentina
|
Mario
Kempes (6)
|
Mario
Kempes
|
|
1974
|
West
Germany
|
Grzegorz
Lato (7)
|
Johan
Cruijff
|
|
1970
|
Brazil
|
Gerd
Müller (10)
|
Pelé
|
|
1966
|
England
|
Eusébio
(9)
|
Bobby
Charlton
|
|
1962
|
Brazil
|
Vavá,Garrincha,Ivanov,Albert,Je…
|
Garrincha
|
|
1958
|
Brazil
|
Just
Fontaine (13)
|
Didi
|
|
1954
|
West
Germany
|
Sándor
Kocsis (11)
|
Ferenc
Puskás
|
|
1950
|
Uruguay
|
Ademir
|
Zizinho
|
|
1938
|
Italy
|
Leônidas
(7)
|
Leônidas
|
|
1934
|
Italy
|
Oldřich
Nejedlý (5)
|
Giuseppe
Meazza
|
|
1930
|
Uruguay
|
Guillermo
Stábile (8)
|
José
Nasazzi
|
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