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Fabio Grosso
Lippi’s motivation skills were also crucial to the
triumph. Before Fabio Grosso took the tournament
winning penalty in the shootout against
France, the coach told him: “You have resolved the
matches with Australia and Germany in the last minute,
and you will do it even now.”.
Lippi della patria
On May 16 of 2006 when Marcello Lippi announced his 23-man squad for the upcoming World Cup,
Italian football was in a maelstrom of
disarray amid the Calciopoli scandal.
