Answered Prayers (sort of)

You may have heard by now. The Bianconeri need a working midfield. Just when it seemed all was lost, our favorite Argie-Italiano came off the injured list. He's only got 50 minutes in him at a time, and when he leaves the field, Amauri has to be three midfielders and two strikers at once all while being double-teamed (thanks for the gratuitous petty red card Iaquinta, you wanker) and suffering through a confidence-killing slump and getting yinyanged about between gli Azzurri and Brazil. Poor Amauri.

But this isn't about him. He'll be better soon, because Mauro is almost all better and up to 50 minutes a pop. The Bianconeri are a better team with Mauro, and so are gli Azzurri (although still not good enough. Guys, there's no I in TEAM). FC Dirtbunny is better with him too:

Mauro Camoranesi, Juventus midfielder extraordinaire, and the only one of the Azzurri to help Pirlo in the midfield this week in the world cup friendly against Brazil, not that it made much difference.

He works hard. Really hard.

He works as hard as Rino, but with more offense and fewer yellow cards.

He's da man.

We aren't wild about the hair (it's a lot like Dirtbunny's hair on a humid day in summertime, but more so, and dark instead of light). And we are not wild about the chin pubes either. But he's taken to a Japanese-style topknot on the pitch this season. We here at FC Dirtbunny take that to mean that the hair is for off the pitch; on the pitch, he wants it up and out of the way. Dirtbunny can respect that.

Hey! How did ADP get in here? They're golf buddies, which is a goddamn shame, but no one is perfect.

Camo has a lovely smile, but he's less likely to get all lovey with his teammates than some of the other Azzurri.

See? Usually, ADP is the flirtee. Here, Camo is the flirtee and ADP is the flirter. I can't even find a photo of Mauro and Gigi locked in a manly embrace, and that should tell you something.

We love the name.

Camoranesi. camoranesi camoranesi camoranesi [sigh]

camoranesi [one for the road]