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Speaker: Best Italy World Cup 11 of all time. So pick your 11 from all these names. I'll give you time to do yours. I've just been doing mine now while I leave you speaking. So I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna go for a 5 -3 -2 because most of Italy's talent is in defense. And so I wanna have more, I want everything to be more condensed in defense. So I'm gonna go for a 5 -3 -2. My goalkeeper,
Speaker: The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
Speaker: Again, it could be Buffon, it could be Zof. It is absolutely impossible to choose between the two of them, but I'll go Buffon. Then in defence, I'm going to go Gentile right back, then the three centre backs, I'm going to go Baresi,
Speaker: Canavaro and Chirre, and then I'm going to go Maldini at left back. There's so many defenders that could get in. I feel bad leaving out Faketti. I feel bad leaving out Cabrini. I mean, there's so many that I could have in there, but those are my five in defense.
Speaker: Then in midfield, I think Pierloan Tardelli absolutely, like, have to be in there as the two centre midfielders. Then, I mean, I'm playing a system here without wingers, but Bruno Conti has to be in it, so I don't care. He can play in centre midfield. He has to be in it. There's no way I'm leaving him out. So Bruno Conti is my third central midfielder. And then in attack,
Speaker: I think it has to be Bad Gio and Paolo Rossi. I think those have to be the two, the only ones that could maybe... Cristian Vieri has an argument, but his tournaments, Italy got to the last 16 in the quarterfinals, so he never played in a game or scored in a game past the quarterfinals onwards.
Speaker: you know, the others did. And Gigi Riva, I guess, yeah, you could make an argument for him, but he only actually only scored three World Cup goals, say only. So, you know, so I think, yeah, he's below, he's below those two. So yeah, Badjo and Rossi up front.
Speaker: I've pretty much got the same. The only difference is I would I would have moved Maldini to the middle because I want to have Faketi as a left wing back because he was outstanding there. So I would probably move Shireya out and have Baresi Kanavaro Maldini and Faketi and Gentilla to the right. And as for Pirlo, Tardel Likonti, yeah, I can live with that. I can live with that. And Bajo Rossi, it's hard to argue with that.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, it certainly is. That would be some struggles. I bet those two would have worked really well together. I think so as well. We've actually been a perfect strike partnership. They really would have. Roger is a support striker. Rossy is the striker making his run. Oh my God. That would be a cheap code, some would say. Yes, some would say. Some would say.
