他的兢兢业业恪尽职守不只在国家队，职业生涯的每一步他都很拼命，甚至在阿赫利这样不入流的队例行日常训练，都极尽认真卖力，未有丝毫懈怠。虽然他未能像那些封授忠诚的俱乐部旗帜核心一样，有幸对一支俱乐部死心塌地的不离不弃，但是在道德上绝对无可指摘——就像被奉为忠诚化身的马尔蒂尼，人们总极力讴歌着赞美着他对米兰的忠贞不二，几乎从来就不追究诘责他后来照样在俱乐部风生水起，为何却一再拒绝亟需他的国家队的征召；还有内德维德，回到国家队常常托病不出，在俱乐部就生龙活虎拼死拼活，也从没多少人怪罪他为何对国家队不能像对俱乐部那样表现出同样的忠心。。。每个人的价值取向、看重和满足的东西不一样，偏心偏意也是人之常情，忠诚于俱乐部也好，忠诚于国家队也罢，都是当事人的选择，当然更需要球队的各种成全，在情操境界上也许不见得有多大差别。但是俱乐部善始善终得忠诚者，总被人推上道德制高点；而卡纳瓦罗这样对国家队肝脑涂地的痴心，却往往不入众生法眼，傲慢与偏见喜欢紧盯着不放、死咬着不放的，总是他不得已离开某支球队的“背叛”......


众口烁金，虽然卡纳瓦罗本人对流言几乎不上心，但是很多人总想当然把他的成功与成就，只归因于他得天独厚的幸运，勾销他的天赋实力，长期充满挫折和饱含风险的奋斗努力，对他委实太不公平。
他的职业生涯并不总是成功与幸运相伴，相反充满了动荡和跌宕，而那些动荡和跌宕给他平添了数不尽的无聊争议和无理非难。
较真起来，他一点比不上很多真正的幸运儿，比如总被赋予无限悲情色彩的“生不逢时”的马尔蒂尼，“天妒英才”的内斯塔——根本比不上他们冠军不断加冕的荣华岁月，比不上他们长时间活跃在受瞩目的舞台，更比不上他们多次拒绝国家队仍被人无比思念，而自己留守却被厌弃恶语中伤......

盘点卡纳瓦罗的职业生涯，实在有太多的悲哀与辛酸，但他留给世人的，从来都不是抱怨，哀叹，自怜，仇恨，而是快乐，满足，自豪，感恩。就像他自己说的，他无需遗憾，他在世界上最好 的球队取得过胜利，他带领意大利队拿到了阔别已久的世界冠军，他曾和世界上最好的球员并肩战斗过，他拿到了后卫难以染指的最高个人荣誉......跟他得到的许多许多相比，那些对他的误解，冷漠，轻视，反感，真是不值一提。

荣誉不能说明一切，但是那些分量十足的荣誉的回报，却让他的人生与众不同，让恁多对他的藐视刻薄抨击变得无足轻重。曾几何时，他在俱乐部深陷低谷，前路迷惘，他领衔的国家队巨星隐没，被视作平民之师，他作为队长，资格与能力备受质疑。如果没有06年世界杯的加冕，如果没有全体队友众志成城神奇表现，他个人再怎么努力，发挥再怎么逆天，成绩拿不出手，也只会背负着把平庸的意大利带入没落的骂名，饱受诟病，然后迅速被大众遗忘，而不会成为殿堂级人物,在世界足球史上留下自己的传奇华章。所以，我一直都为他庆幸，多么幸运有器重他的教练，那么多抬桩的队友，特别是格罗索，马特拉齐，布冯，皮尔洛，托蒂。。。。。不由得在心里深深感激他们。


向卡纳瓦罗致敬


Seven years, two Coppa Italias, one Uefa Cup, and a second-consecutive European Under-21 Championship later (where he was named Player of the Tournament), Cannavaro was on the road again as he joined Inter for a whopping €23 million. As with many other big names during the first decade of president Massimo Moratti's reign, the defender had a miserable time as he struggled for form and fitness at an inadequately-run club.
This led to one of Calcio's biggest transfer mistakes as Moratti inexplicably sanctioned the sale of Cannavaro to rivals Juventus in a bizarre exchange for reserve goalkeeper Fabian Carini. With the Old Lady, Canna was soon back to his best again, accompanied by old friends Thuram and Buffon, but he was forced to leave after the Bianconeri were scandalously relegated due to the 2006 Calciopoli scandal.
His decision to jump ship was controversial and cost him the support of many Juventus fans during a second unsuccessful spell in 2009-10, but was completely understandable considering he was approaching 33 and desperate to achieve his final dream of winning the Champions League. This didn't materialise during three years at Real Madrid, but despite some criticism the stopper still bagged two La Liga crowns. Since departing, the Madrid side have not won a major title.
Some would say that Cannavaro's retirement should have arrived one or two years earlier. Having missed Euro 2008 through injury, the defender struggled along with all his team-mates during Italy's humiliating group stage exit at the 2010 World Cup when returning coach Marcello Lippi stubbornly and suicidally placed his trust in the ageing 2006 World Cup heroes. Cannavaro wound down his career in the United Arab Emirates with Al-Ahly, but at the age of 37 and beset by knee trouble his final days were not particularly happy.
"Fabio is a great player and great man. He had a great career, topped off by the World Cup victory."
- Marcello Lippi
Nevertheless, Cannavaro retires not only as an Italy legend but as a football legend. This alone can be demonstrated by the fact that, in a sport where forwards monopolise all personal glory, Cannavaro is the sole defender to have been crowned as Fifa World Player of the Year - which he achieved in 2006.
In the last 15 years, only the aforementioned Nesta and Thuram - as well as possibly a Paolo Maldini whose best days arrived a touch earlier - can challenge the Neapolitan as the greatest defender of his generation. Internationally, Cannavaro has no equals.
Grazie Fabio!


http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3265/italy/2011/07/10/2568587/farewell-fabio-cannavaro-the-greatest-international-defender

Cannavaro waves Calcio goodbye
By Will Cook
Tuesday 12 July 2011Tweet
When Fabio Cannavaro announced his retirement from football at the weekend, the Calcio world heaved a heavy and collective sigh as a persistent knee injury caught up with one of the greatest defenders of his generation. The tributes poured in as if he had passed away. He has not, but Cannavaro, along with the likes of Alessandro Nesta, was one of the few truly legendary Italian defenders to have been still playing.
The diminutive defender, just 5ft 9in tall, made his professional debut for his hometown club Napoli in 1993 after progressing through the youth ranks. Having grown up watching the Vesuviani in their golden period of the Maradona era, he spent two years as a regular before joining Parma in 1995, in the process helping create a golden period of his own for the Emilia-Romagna side.
During his seven season spell with Parma, Cannavaro was instrumental in a strong Ducali defence which included Gianluigi Buffon as goalkeeper and defenders Lilian Thuram, Roberto Sensini and Antonio Benarrivo. He won two Coppa Italia trophies, a Supercoppa Italiana and the Uefa Cup and it was no surprise therefore to see that Cannavaro, along with three other members of the fab five, had departed the Ennio Tardini by 2002.
Two relatively unsuccessful years with Inter were followed with two successive Scudetti wins at Juventus which were later revoked in the aftermath of the Calciopoli scandal. To this day Cannavaro protests that the Bianconeri won the titles on the pitch, but as Juve were relegated to Serie B, he left to join Real Madrid where he won La Liga twice in three seasons in the Spanish capital.
Despite all the honours at club level, his finest hour was Italy’s World Cup campaign in 2006. He proved an inspirational captain by leading the Azzurri to glory without conceding an opposition goal from open play in the whole tournament and then celebrated his 100th international cap by muzzling France’s attack in the final on that glorious night in Berlin.
Those performances won him the Balon d’Or in 2006, becoming only the third defender to win the award after Franz Beckenbauer and Matthias Sammer. But as it was so rare for a defender to win the award, the decision was incredibly questioned by some.
Pundits such as Leonardo defended the decision, and in 2006 while working for the BBC, he summed up why he was such a great player: “Cannavaro has this low centre of gravity, which means he is very fast. He reads the game well and always arrives before the forward when he tackles.”
“He has incredible concentration, inner strength, and superb physical condition. He is not very tall but he is rarely beaten in the air because he jumps so well.”
The latter point was never more prevalent in the World Cup semi-final versus Germany in Dortmund when in the 120th minute of an imperious display, he headed clear a German cross, followed it up with a charging interception and then laid the ball off to Francesco Totti in the build up to Italy’s second goal.
It was fitting and almost fate that Cannavaro’s decision to retire would come on an anniversary of that famous night in Berlin. The image of him with his flashing smile, stood above the rest of his Azzurri team mates on the podium holding aloft the World Cup trophy is the most enduring of his glittering career. Calcio is in mourning. It may be a while before an Italian defender of Cannavaro’s quality emerges again.


http://www.footballitaliano.co.uk/p6_66_6338_cannavaro-waves-calcio-goodbye.html

【经典永存】卡纳瓦罗世界杯经典瞬间回顾 上帝之蓝的传奇
2011-7-11 8:40:00 来源: 体坛ABC 作者：管理员
北京时间7月9日，意大利球星卡纳瓦罗宣布由于膝伤原因退役。现年38岁的卡纳瓦罗是意大利国家队夺得2006年世界杯冠军的队长，以队长身份率队夺得世界杯冠军之后，卡纳瓦罗于年底囊括了“金球奖”和“世界足球先生”两项个人大奖，成为首位当选世界足球先生的后卫球员。有人说他是足球场上最英俊的斗士，虽然身材并不高大，但准确的判断和顽强的作风帮助卡纳瓦罗成为世界顶级中后卫。所有的意大利球迷都不会忘记06年世界杯那些经典的瞬间，让我们在帕瓦罗蒂的歌声中，回味卡纳瓦罗在世界杯上的经典瞬间，向这个太阳一样的男人说一声再见。