Our Man in Toulon
By: Ted | May 29th, 2008
It’s been a fun week to be a Viola fan with all the new signings, rumors, etc. But another thing I wanted to do this summer was follow current and former Fiorentina players as they played on the European stage, such as Mutu with Romania and Ujfalusi with the Czechs. In that spirit, I want to give a quick shout-out to Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, who scored the winning (and only) goal for Italy today in the final of the Toulon under 23-tournament.
I certainly didn’t watch every minute of the tournament, (in fact I only saw about sixty minutes of today’s final) but Osvaldo played well and always looked like a threat. His game winner in the 70th minute was in fact his only goal of the tourney, but he’s come close a number of times and could have had a hat-trick today if the ball had bounced differently. What is impressive is his knack for scoring important goals when they matter most (a skill reminiscent of another Argentine-born striker who used to wear purple) and signifies that this kid is one to hang on to.
Congrats to Pablo and the entire U-23 team for their victory.
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Great goal, but he should’ve been sent off in the first half. Kicked a Chile player blatantly when he was on the ground. Pretty bullshit, really. Italy has enough issues with people trying to discredit the squads without that stuff.
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Chris I have to agree with you here, his kick was bush league, but his perfomance in this tournament has been awesome. If galliani had half a brain he should have harrased a Osvaldo Gila switch!!
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Osvaldo was very lucky to have stayed on the field, but ultimately his performance (leg-kicking aside) was top-notch. Always in movement and pressuring the opponent, his sliding goal was a perfect example of ruthless finishing.
For photos of the final, see here:
http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/all/1?q=italy+chilePosted from
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He had both assists in one of the matches, too.
I’m not going to condone the kicking but Osvaldo is Argentinian and they were playing against Chile. Much worse happens in their matches and who can really say what happened to Osvaldo leading up to it?
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what player!!!
I am so glad he decided to play for italy, and not argentina =)
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Osvaldo is hot!
and hot headed too. He need to mature to tame that temper.
If he can just finetune his finishing, calm down and get clinical he may just become a great strikerPosted from
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