The Friuli Gazette today talks about the market policy of theUdinesewhich has always focused heavily on external talents. Italian football offers little – we read – and at exaggerated prices, so now everyone is trying to “fish” for the right element in the rest of the planet. This year the list of foreigners who have worn the black and white shirt has grown with the likes of Karlstrom, Ekkelenkamp and Bravo, who made his debut against Como, but those who arrived in Udine on the last day of the market to cope with the sales of Perez, Ebosele, as well as those of the youngsters Esteves, Buta, Quina, Semedo, Diawara, or the French Tourè and Atta, the Portuguese with an Angolan passport Rui Modesto are also on the “launching pad”.
Pizarro, now that he is recovering from the after-effects of surgery to remove a bone cyst, should also make his debut in Serie A. Then there is the second goalkeeper, Sava, who could be used in three weeks in the Coppa Italia against Salernitana. With the use of Bravo against Como, the number of foreign players who have played at least one league match has risen to 235.
Udinese is the team that has fielded an eleven composed entirely of foreign players, 9 times in the last 10 years. Inter follows (8 times), even though the Nerazzurri club was the first to give full space in a match to foreigners only (in the 2008-09 championship, against Roma, and before that in the Champions League against Artmedia). Udinese’s foreign players have always been 51 nationalities.