2008-09 Serie A Best XI

Ladies & Gen­tle­men, the end of the Serie A sea­son means that we have to choose a Best XI. The fol­low­ing 11 play­ers and coach were our stand­out play­ers from an excit­ing Serie A sea­son. Here are the Serie A’s Best XI for 2008-09:

Goal­keeper:
Julio Cesar (Inter Milan)

The Ner­az­zurri & Brazil #1 has become the best keeper in Italy and the 2nd best keeper in the world behind Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas.

Defend­ers:
Maicon (Inter Milan)

Maicon Dou­glas Sise­nando is arguably the best right back in the world and a huge piece of Inter’s defense & offense in their mul­ti­ple Scud­etto run.

Alessan­dro Gam­berini (Fiorentina)
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The cen­ter back known as “Super Gam­bero” by the Viola faith­ful was the rock of a Fiorentina side that had 4th best defense in the Serie A and led I Viola in Serie A appearances.

Gior­gio Chiellini (Juven­tus)

The other cen­ter back in the Best XI is seen as the best cen­ter back in Italy. The 24-year old will be the future rock in the mid­dle of the Azzurri defense and helped Juve to the 2nd best defense in the Serie A.

Domenico Crisc­ito (Genoa)

The youngest mem­ber of the Best XI is well known in Italy as the one of the best young defen­sive tal­ents. He is on loan from Juven­tus and helped Genoa sur­prise the Serie A with their 5th place fin­ish and a place in the Europa League.

Defen­sive Mid­field­ers:
Felipe Melo (Fiorentina)

The hard tack­ling, often foul­ing Brazil­ian mid­fielder gave Cesare Pirandelli’s men and edge & tough­ness that helped Fiorentina get a Cham­pi­ons League spot. Felipe Melo led Serie A in red cards & was in the Top 10 in yel­low cards.

Este­ban Cam­bi­asso (Inter Milan)

The Argen­tine mid­fielder is arguably the most under appre­ci­ated mid­fielder in the Serie A. He is a fix­ture in Inter’s lineup, has a knack of scor­ing timely goals, and a mas­sive con­trib­u­tor for The Ner­az­zurri.

Attack­ing Mid­field­ers:
Kaká (AC Milan)

The new Real Madrid mid­fielder was AC Milan’s lead­ing scorer and the face of The Rossoneri. Kaká‘s influ­ence on & off the pitch was essen­tial to Milan return­ing to the Cham­pi­ons League.

Gae­tano D’Agostino (Udi­nese)

The Udi­nese play­maker was 2nd lead­ing goalscorer among mid­field­ers and was the key to Udi­nese fin­ish­ing with the 5th best attack in the Serie A and a sur­prise 7th place finish.

For­wards:
Marco Di Vaio (Bologna)

The well trav­eled 32-year old striker fin­ished tied for 2nd in the Capoc­an­non­iere race with 24 goals and helped Bologna avoid relegation.

Diego Mil­ito (Genoa)

The man known as El Principe tied Di Vaio for 2nd in the Capoc­an­non­iere race with 24 goals and was the face of Genoa’s amaz­ing 5th place fin­ish. The Argen­tine hit­man will now take his goal scor­ing touch to Inter.

DT:
Gian Piero Gasperini (Genoa)

2 sea­sons ago Genoa was in the Serie B, since then Gasperini has led Genoa to a Top 5 fin­ish and into a Euro­pean com­pe­ti­tion. The for­mer Juven­tus mid­fielder has received praise for Genoa’s attack­ing style of play as I Rossoblu was the clear pos­i­tive sur­prise team in the 08–09 season.

Bench:
GK: Gigi Buf­fon (Juven­tus)
DEF: Paolo Mal­dini (AC Milan) & Javier Zanetti (Inter Milan)
MID: Michele Fini (Cagliari) & Simone Ver­gas­sola (Siena)
ATT: Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic (Inter Milan) & Alberto Gilardino (Fiorentina)

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