VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-27
“Goalkeepers and defenders are also part of the spectacle. Attackers don’t just play amongst themselves,”
Fabio Cannavaro · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27
Cannavaro told France Football after winning the 2006 Ballon d'Or that goalkeepers and defenders deserve recognition as part of the spectacle.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.