Toddler steals the show as fans flock to see Azzurri

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2006

DUISBURG (AFP) — A toddler stole the show as around 2,000 Italian fans flocked to the Azzurri's Meiderich training ground to give their idols a rousing send-off before the World Cup final against France.

The supporters came to see their heroes in blue, but they saved the biggest cheer for a little boy who interrupted the session by climbing over a fence and running onto the pitch.

The players stopped in their tracks as the cheeky tot, dressed in an Italian shirt, ran to the nearest ball and went on a mazy dribble upfield towards the squad.

A security guard quickly intervened and carried the boy off the field and handed him over to his parents.

Many of the fans wore Italian shirts while others waved green, white and red flags in the last training...