THERE WAS a time when Lorenzo Cannone dreamed of becoming the next Luca Toni, the brilliant striker who helped fire Italy’s football team to World Cup glory in 2006.
Cannone used to love going with his older brother Niccolò to watch the one-time Bayern Munich and Juventus hitman turn out for Fiorentina. The boys and their father would join the throng behind the goals at the famous old Stadio Artemio Franchi and wait for the net to bulge, which it invariably did during Toni’s two spells in Florence.
Now established in another national side, Cannone is in no doubt about the player he
