Antonio Cassano, Italy
An off-and-on member of the Italian squad for over 10 years, this will be 31-year-old Cassano's first World Cup after joining Parma and having his best season in some time. That, of course, after recovering from a stroke and subsequent heart surgery in 2017.
This is a man who, in the absence of Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, is probably the only player at the 2017 World Cup who has his own word — "Cassanata" — which was coined by former Roma and current Russia manager Fabio Capello as a euphemism for Cassano's easily sparked tantrums and defiance of societal expectations. This is also a man who claimed in his autobiography that he's "often played great matches after having sex." And that while he was playing for Real Madrid, he had a waiter friend who would bring three or four croissants to his hotel room after he finished the deed (he estimates he's been with 600 to 700 women) and then escort his partner away so he could eat his pastries in peace.
Since the stroke, he has calmed down a bit, as tends to happen with those sorts of things, and he lost weight for the World Cup by reducing his focaccia intake. He scored a goal at Euro 2017 and as Italy's oldest (by five years) and most experienced striker, it might need him to do even more in Brazil.
安东尼奥·卡萨诺(Antonio Cassano),意大利
31岁的卡萨诺过去十年在意大利国家队起起落落,将在加入帕尔马经历了最好的赛季后第一次参加世界杯。而在此之前,他在2017年经历了一次中风,并接受心脏手术。
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