News from Gianluca Zambrotta? Right -right and left -free right winger to Juventus and Milan, the former Italian international has obviously entered the legend by being crowned 2006 world champion with Italy. He was the essential right side of the Nazionale of Marcello Lippi, alongside Fabio Cannavaro and Marco Materazzi in defense, to the final won in Berlin against the French team of Zinédine Zidane with penalties (1-1, 5-3 TAB).
Eleven years after his sports retirement, Zambrotta, who was coach in India (at Delhi Dynamos in 2016) and assistant to Fabio Capello in China (at Jiangsu FC), takes care of his body. At 48, he took advantage of playing Padel, his new passion, despite a rare disease, the Genu Varum, a deformation in the knee. This “arched legs syndrome” is common in young children or even with weightlifting.
Fabio Cannavaro raises the World Cup trophy in 2006.
Guest of the Podcast The Bsmt by Gianluca Gazzoli, Zambrotta said: “During my career, I had no serious injuries. I underwent three operations on my internal menisci (knee, editor's note). Currently, I have neither on the left nor on the right, so over time, my legs have arched and today, I am a laboratory model for many surgeons. Doctors look at me and ask me how I walk ”.
A 2006 world champion in Barça
Rather serene compared to the situation, the former defender explains, however, that he must have the knees operated soon. A passage on the billiards which must straighten his legs by cutting pieces “Above and below
(knee) and inserting plates “ Pending the putting of a complete prosthesis in a few years.
Gianluca Zambrotta has a nice record beyond the World Cup. He was crowned Italian champion three times, in 2002 and 2003 with the Juventus of Alessandro del Piero and David Trezeguet and in 2011 with AC Milan of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He also lost in the Champions League final in 2011 against the Bianconeri. At Barça from 2006 to 2008, after the administrative relegation of the old lady, he won only a Spanish Super Cup with Xavi, Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and a certain Lionel Messi.
