Lauding Luca Toni – the last great Italian striker

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti this week salute Luca Toni. Not a lifeguard as some would have you believe but perhaps the last great Italian centre-forward. The big man was laying down outrageous goal scoring numbers before Ronaldo and Messi showed up. He was Serie A’s top scorer at the age of 29 and again at 38. Toni won the World Cup, the Golden Shoe and he scored a bundle for Bayern Munich, while also upsetting Louis Van Gaal and the Catholic Church. In short, he was so much more than the Italian Peter Crouch. Back in the present, the panel evaluate Italy’s striker search in finding the next Luca Toni. And speaking of strikers, will Milan’s injury crisis force them to call upon the Zlatan? Plus there’s what should be an emotional Genoa derby on the horizon this weekend. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: An introduction to Luca Toni – underappreciated? (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Toni’s beginnings at Brescia (04m 30s) • PART 2b: Toni goes to the 2006 World Cup (07m 10s) • PART 2c: Toni’s time at Bayern – breaking records and falling out with Van Gaal and the Catholic Church (10m 30s) • PART 3a: Toni returns to Italy and breaks more records (15m 00s) • PART 3b: Luca’s legacy (23m 30s) • PART 4: A look back at Italy in the Nations League (26m 00s) • PART 5: Restaurant recommendations and a look ahead to the Genoa derby (30m 35s) GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook, where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff. • send us a tweet: @theTotallyShow • for sales and advertising email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golasso! On today's show we celebrate the last great Italian Center Forward, a man with one iconic
0:21.8	celebration, three careers and too much talent.
0:25.0	Also, there's a bit of Italy Portugal, we gen up on the Genoa Derby and
0:30.0	answer your questions in this Golazzo.
0:33.0	GOLATSO.
0:34.0	GOLATSO.
0:41.0	Joining us on Golazzo, as usual this week we have James Hormkartor.
0:44.8	Hello James.
0:45.8	Nice to see you James and nice to see you, Gabrile Marcotti.
0:49.2	Delighted to be back James.
0:50.6	Time now for a touch of class Looni pepper, only luu ka saper me.
1:04.0	Stand by for action.
1:10.0	Yes yes, luka toni. Hero of Berlin, Gab, twice City As top scorer, once the Bundesliga Toriega Cannon,
1:20.3	a man who's had 15 clubs and played for 22 years. A man who's loved, but I'm going to suggest, is not respected the way some players are respected. Why? Why is he not respected?
1:34.4	I feel that they don't take him seriously the way they do...
1:37.8	Boy, they could need him now, no?
1:39.4	Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
1:41.0	Exactly. What would you say, Gab, am I wrong in that? I mean I think it's like a classic late bloomer situation, right?
1:47.2	And one of the things that we have in Italy, especially through the football fraternity in Italy, especially sort of the football fraternity in Italy.
1:55.0	We're generally convinced that, you know, we may not be as a football nation,
1:59.0	as talented as other countries or whatever else,
2:02.0	but we understand the game. We understand basics of tactics.
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