LISBON: There will be no three lions on his shirt and no singing of God Save the Queen but by birth, if nothing else, Italy midfielder Simone Perrotta is as English as David Beckham.
Perrotta first kicked a ball on a school playground in his birthplace of Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester.
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