Int Football - Italy name squad for Greece friendly

Eurosport - Mon, 17 Nov 11:02:00 2008

Italy coach Marcello Lippi has named Liverpool full-back Andrea Dossena in a 22-man squad for a friendly match with Greece in Athens.

FOOTBALL 2008 World Cup 2010 Qualifying Italy Lippi Aquilani Dossena - 0

Dossena has been in and out of Rafael Benitez's side since moving from Udinese in the summer, but he could start ahead of Lyon's Fabio Grosso.

Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon misses out through injury, meaning Galatasaray's Morgan De Sanctis should start with Siena youngster Gianluca Curci on the bench.

Antonio Di Natale, Andrea Pirlo, Alberto Aquilani and Gianluca Zambrotta are also out.

Udinese playmaker Gaetano D'Agostino, 26, could win his first cap.

The former Roma and Bari man is the only new face for Italy, although Grosso, Nicola Legrottaglie, Mauro Camoranesi and Vincenzo Iaquinta all return from injury.

Vteran striker Alessandro Del Piero has again been left out as Lippi continues to experiment.

Udinese striker Fabio Quagliarella has been recalled after missing out on the last round of World Cup qualifier.

Italy squad:

Gianluca Curci (Siena), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray); Daniele Bonera (Milan), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Andrea Dossena (Liverpool), Alessandro Gamberini (Fiorentina), Fabio Grosso (Lyon), Nicola Legrottaglie (Juventus); Mauro Camoranesi (Juventus), Gaetano D'Agostino (Udinese), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Gennaro Gattuso (Milan), Christian Maggio (Napoli), Riccardo Montolivo (Fiorentina), Simone Perrotta (Roma); Alberto Gilardino (Fiorentina), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus), Simone Pepe (Udinese), Fabio Quagliarella (Udinese), Giuseppe Rossi (Villarreal), Luca Toni (Bayern Munich)

Greece squad:

Costas Halkias (PAOK Salonika), Alexandros Tzorvas (Panathinaikos); Traianos Dellas (Anorthosis Famagusta), Socratis Papastathopoulos (Genoa), Nikos Spyropoulos, Loukas Vintra (both Panathinaikos), Avraam Papadopoulos, Vassilis Torosidis (both Olympiacos Piraeus); Costas Katsouranis (Benfica), Giorgos Karagounis, Sotiris Ninis, Alexandros Tziolis (all Panathinaikos), Christos Patsatzoglou (Olympiacos), Angelos Basinas, Vassilis Pliatsikas (AEK Athens); Fanis Gekas (Bayer Leverkusen), Nikos Liberopoulos (Eintracht Frankfurt), Vangelis Mantzios, Dimitris Salpigidis (both Panathinaikos), Vassilis Koutsianikoulis (Ergotelis)

Reuters

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  1. 1-1 itali was near by lose !!!!!!!!!!!

    From salah s, on Wed 19 Nov 11:18PM

  2. Finnan may have been better than Dossena, but how many times in Finnan's seasons at anfield did he play at LB? Dossena wasn't a replacement for Finnan - Degen was!

    From Killer Jatt, on Tue 18 Nov 3:14PM

  3. italy is nothing without del piero........

    From RAJZ 007, on Tue 18 Nov 10:05AM

  4. @#$% Lippi. Get Del Peiro in the squad!

    From Dark.Soul, on Mon 17 Nov 1:11PM

  5. Where the @#$% is Del Peiro. He's not injured is he?

    From Dark.Soul, on Mon 17 Nov 1:09PM

  6. italy will win 3-0

    From mattaaldo@..., on Sun 16 Nov 7:50PM

  7. What does Rafa see in him, Finnan was miles better!

    From Suzy, on Sun 16 Nov 6:36PM

  8. Italy will lose then with stupid dossena

    From Suzy, on Sun 16 Nov 6:31PM
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