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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
They have good young defenders who were unproven at the International level and Lippi is not the manager who would take out his captain to put in an unproven young player.
The problem is that it would have been too hard to take Cannavaro out of the line up, due to the respect Cannavaro earned for his 2006 performance.
Had he retired after 2008 like many had hoped the Italian team would have been better off but he felt like he was still at his best and Lippi was willing to take the risk that he would step it up like he did in 2006.
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Pretty much. I'm not sure what manager out there would have the balls to not name Cannavaro to the team. Out of respect, he had to be named.