#Soccer Team# Italy in the 2006 World Cup, who is the first core? In fact, the Italian team was able to win the title that year, inseparable from the three cores of their three lines, the captain Cannavaro on the back line, the master of control in the midfield Pirlo, and the forward line with the "Prince of Rome" Totti. So Cannavaro, Pirlo, Totti, who is the first core of these three?
Cannavaro was an absolute fixer at the back, trying to keep Italy's back line stable in the 2006 World Cup, but to win the World Cup, it is not enough to rely on defense, it is necessary to score goals and attack. Therefore, Cannavaro is one of the cores, but it is difficult to call it the first core.
After that World Cup, Pirlo became a superstar in one fell swoop. He is the midfield hub of the Italian team, responsible for grooming the midfield and bridging the front and back. But Pirlo can hardly be called the first core, because his freedom in midfield is due to Totti attracting and containing most of the opponent's defensive energy up front. Totti was the first core of the Italian team at the 2006 World Cup.
Although Totti did not play 100% of his strength in that World Cup due to injury, it is such a weakened Totti who can still become the real most threatening player in the eyes of every Italian opponent. If you look closely at the Italian team at that World Cup, you will see that Totti is always surrounded by several people, even when he does not have the ball. But even so, Totti still plays very well, his ability to pass and threaten the ball, the ability to control the rhythm of the attack, the ability to play the ball in the face of defense, his passing vision, in fact, is obviously a level higher than others. Without Totti's threat and containment up front, Pirlo and the rest of the midfielders and frontcourt players would not have had as much room to hold the ball. Totti is also the best player in the Italian team to create scoring chances for the team by holding and passing the ball. So I personally think that Totti was the first core of the Italian team that won the 2006 World Cup.
