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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Preview: Italy v Mexico

The Azzurri face El Tri today in Brussels, Belgium for a pre World Cup friendly.

The defending world champions play their first official match since a nil-nil tie on March 3 against Cameroon. For Mexico, this is seemingly their twentieth friendly ahead of South Africa 2010 (8th official game since May 7). This is El Tri's last friendly before they open up the world cup on June 11 at 9:30 a.m. ET against host nation South Africa

The lineups:

For Mexico: Oscar Perez (G), Francisco Rodriguez (D), Ricardo Osorio (D), Carlos Salcido (D), Paul Aguilar (D), Gerardo Torrado (MF), Rafael Marquez (MF), Efrain Juarez (MF), Giovani Dos Santos (F), Javier Hernandez (F), Carlos Vela (F)

For Italy: Gianlugi Buffon (G), Fabio Cannavaro (D), Leonardo Bonucci (D), Domenico Criscito (D), Gianluca Zambrotta (D), Andrea Pirlo (MF), Daniele De Rossi (MF), Alberto Gilardino (F), Claudio Marchisio (F), Antonio Di Natale (AM), Vincenzo Iaquinta (AM)

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