Gattuso: Del Piero should be captain

The midfielder Gennaro Gattuso has brought to his partner Alessandro Del Piero as the player who should wear the captain's armband in the upcoming European Championship in Austria and Switzerland after the injury Madrid Fabio Cannavaro, who was the most accumulated calls.

After the central Real Madrid are injured ligaments in the left ankle, which kept him two months away from playgrounds, Gattuso suggested Del Piero as the charge of being the captain of the current world champion.

The midfielder of the 'Vecchia Signora' sum total of 86 appearances with the shirt azulona, while Buffon has 82, though, despite the pronouncement of Gattuso, will have the last word selector Italian, Roberto Donadoni, who has no clear the inclusion of Del Piero in the 'once' owner.

"I think it's time that Del Piero will be captain for his career. If you do not play, Buffon who will take you, and we also know that it is very important to him," said Gattuso in a press conference after the morning training of Italians .

As for the mere sport, the midfielder from 'rossonero' beating said to be "carefully" because of the difficulty of group play where the first phase, consisting of Romania, Holland and France, his latest victim in the World 2006.

"We must prepare every game one hundred percent and leave the skin on the field. What we do not have to think is that we are world champions. We have a very difficult group," he said Gattuso, who seems to have a fixed site in downtown Field, accompanied by Andrea Pirlo.