Player Talk : Alex

Alex makes Euro appeal
Friday 22 February, 2008

Alessandro Del Piero has made a Euro 2008 selection plea to Roberto Donadoni and analysed Italian chances in the Champions League.

The Juventus captain is by no means guaranteed to travel to Austria and Switzerland this summer after being left out of Italy’s recent squad to play Portugal.

While a poll in the peninsula suggests that the Italian public would rather see Del Piero than Antonio Cassano in the squad, the final decision will be with Donadoni.

“Dear Roberto I ask you to think carefully about me,” Alex said on Sky Sport Italia.

“You have seen many times what I can do and if you need some good wine I can send it to you!”

Pinturricchio also passed comment on the Italian representatives in this term’s Champions League.

“I think that one of the three won’t make it through because these are games where anything can happen,” he stated.

“It depends on the atmosphere in the dressing rooms. They are all too tough to call, even Inter’s game, despite their first leg defeat could go either way.”

The Padova native concluded his interview by revealing which players in Europe at the moment impress him most.

“Today’s players are a bit different to me,” he maintained. “They are all so fast, physically strong and technically adept.

“Diego at Werder Bremen is very good, but so is Rafael Van Der Vaart and I would like to see him play in another League.

“I would love to have Karim Benzema’s guile as he is so sly and then cool in front of goal.

“Fernando Torres is very fast and can just take the ball and go so easily. However, at the moment I rate Emmanuel Adebayor higher as he is having a better season.”

*channel4