Azzurri Fanfic
Title: An Azzurri World Cup
Rating: G
Disclaimer: the match dates, scorers and events on the pitch are true, but events outside the playing field are all fiction.
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An Azzurri World Cup
Set: Summer 2006
Part 1
All 23 members of the Italian team were in Germany for the World Cup. It was a great honor to be selected for the World Cup squad out of the hundreds of Italian players available. Being selected meant that Coach had faith in you. The honor was doubly great for Mauro Camoranesi, who was born in Argentina, and could easily have been picked for their team. He had been picked for the Azzurri in 2003, so this was his first experience at the world’s greatest competition.
Mauro wasn’t worried about getting along with his teammates - he had played in Juventus for a while now, and had some close friends, particularly Gianluca Zambrotta - but he did wish a few things could be different. For instance, he wished he was taller. It wasn’t his fault that his genes weren’t kind to him! But at least he wasn’t alone. Del Piero and Cannavaro (both Juventus teammates) were also short. But Del Piero had been on the team for a long time; he was respected. Nobody would ever make fun of him. And Cannavaro was the captain. Enough said.
“Better focus on more positive things,” he thought. Their match against Germany had gone off without a hitch. 4-0 was enough to make even the most depressed of the team smile. “Those young players don’t stand a chance, even in their own home turf,” he smiled to himself, “If we get to play against them in the World Cup, it’ll be the easiest match ever.”
“Camo! Hey Camo!” He was brought out of his thoughts by Gianluca, who had been sitting next to him all the way from the airport. “We’re here! Finally!”
“Wow! Time flew by for me! I didn’t think it took that long.”
“That’s because I was bored stiff while you were lost in your thoughts.”
“Oh! Sorry! Well, I’m back now. Let’s get our bags upstairs. Everyone’s already gone and the driver’s staring at us!”
Next 2 parts: the Juventus guys chat to each other, and Nesta and Pirlo talk about their expectations of this World Cup.
Sorry for the delay, I had to type all of it out!
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