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Gattuso out of Italy´s World Cup clash with Georgia

AFP - 7 September 2008 23:35

Midfield stalwart Gennaro Gattuso, pictured in June 2008, will miss Italy´s World Cup qualifier against Georgia at Udine on Wednesday after injuring his wrist in training.

ROME (AFP) - Midfield stalwart Gennaro Gattuso will miss Italy's World Cup qualifier against Georgia at Udine on Wednesday after injuring his wrist in training.

The AC Milan player, who slipped and hurt his left wrist in a practice match, underwent surgery on Sunday and will be ruled out for around a month, said Enrico Castellacci, the team doctor with the world champions.

Meanwhile, defenders Fabio Grosso and Alessandro Gamberini, who were injured in the laboured 2-1 opening World Cup qualifying win in Cyprus on Saturday, will not be replaced, said Italian coach Marcello Lippi.

Grosso has fractured ribs while Gamberini suffered a dislocated shoulder.

Grosso would be out for about a month and Gamberini would not be back for at least two weeks.

"There is no point in replacing someone who is going to sit in the stands," said Lippi, explaining why he had not called up replacements.

Italy needed a last-minute goal to eke out their 2-1 victory against Cyprus in Larnaca on Saturday. Antonio Di Natale, with his second goal of the night, secured an undeserved three points in the Group Eight game.

Comments (18)

Tontodonati

8 September 2008 00:19

I think we can still manage a small win!

Escape_to_Victory

8 September 2008 00:56

Speaking of shorties, Gattuso looks like one and I once looked up Pele's and Maradona's height and they were like around 5'6, 5'7, Europeans can translate into the metric system. So, there have been a lot of shorties playing soccer.

Tontodonati

8 September 2008 01:31

Escape_to_Wictory, you must be drunker than I am and, believe me, I can drink! Your comment doesn't seem to make any sense. What are you trying to say! By the way, how tall are you?

Escape_to_Victory

8 September 2008 02:29

Tontodonati: I am about 6 foot but someone in the other thread said they were short, I thought it was you.

BesTalentScout

8 September 2008 05:41

it'll be a cinch to beat Georgia..........Lippi just need to say Putin is betting bigtime on Italy to win.............LOL

davidescu_alex

8 September 2008 09:55

pula in masa cu italia cu tot sa sugeti pula de jegosi si nespalati !!!!

BesTalentScout

8 September 2008 10:36

stop writing in Martian please..................show-off...........LOL

Tontodonati

8 September 2008 12:14

Bes Talent, davidescu stated: "We must all pull for Italy just to annoy everybody else." That's how Rumanians speak Italian.

newtonheath1878

8 September 2008 14:09

Davidescu, dacă aveţi de gând să delincvent cel puţin au curajul de a face astfel încât oamenii să poată să înţeleagă!

BesTalentScout

8 September 2008 16:05

newtonheath...............

you're getting on the act too ??????? LOL.......

Tontodonati

8 September 2008 16:15

Mark Anthony, don't tell me that you can also speak Rumanian. You must have a good book with a number of phrases in different languages. Tell me the title of it, for I would like to buy one also!

newtonheath1878

8 September 2008 16:43

Fred, italiano, francese, spagnolo e tedesco e sono molto confortevoli con. Alcuni dei meno diffuse lingue europee mi hanno certamente un po 'di aiuto a se sto lottando per la costruzione di una frase!

ajax72

8 September 2008 16:56

Man stick to english, please, don't make a laughing stock of yourself. Your italian isn't even half-baked.

Escape_to_Victory

8 September 2008 17:22

Football has often been called the sport anyone can play, you don't need to be necessarily musculure or tall for it, in fact, there have been times, that people have been called too tall to play soccer but even this is changing in perception with the likes of Paul Crouch and that tall Serbian fellow. Gattuso is 5'9".

BesTalentScout

8 September 2008 18:40

newtonheath

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hdgftr nhjguv acsdxferd bfgchstgf.....

ghvbgyty weqdxs lhmnkjoi vnbhg !

sefa_yesildal

8 September 2008 19:01

Beyler,

Herkes kendi dilinde konuşmaya devam ederse ne anlamı kaldı bu işin!

It makes sense now...

Tontodonati

8 September 2008 19:18

Come on, guys, let's be serious!

Ajax, what's wrong with newtonheath's Italian? I understood him perfectly. He made no more mistakes than when I write English. Now, what Bes Talent wrote is totally arcane!

Escape_to_Victory

8 September 2008 19:28

I've gone through the Romanian books at the library before: nothing wrong with that at all. Though I can understand some Romanian, I've even gone to the Fanatik site in Turk to see what they were saying about their team during the last Euro. I understood little but it was still interesting.

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