Articles tagged with "azzurri"
Come Get Your Official "I Heart ADP" Pin
By Marco P. | May 17th, 2008. D-Day is rapidly approaching for all Azzurri hopefuls (KwSport is reporting that Italy's 'Roster of 23' will be revealed next Tuesday May 20 at 15:00 CET, by FIGC president Giancarlo Abete), and there's not many days left to convince Roberto ...
Donadoni "preliminary roster" supposedly found
By Francesco | May 13th, 2008For the past few days, many newspapers have been making predictions about what Roberto Donadoni's final roster for Euro 2008 will look like. These rosters are purely speculation and shouldn't be trusted at all. Although yesterday, the newspaper I ...
Will Alessandro Del Piero Be Going to Euro 2008?
By Marco P. | May 13th, 2008Ahh... what better way to start content on this blog, than asking the most important ADP-related question looming in the air: will Alessandro Del Piero be going to Euro 2008? In fact, let me phrase it in a different way: should Alessandro Del Piero b ...
Nazionale News
By Francesco | May 7th, 2008Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven't they ever heard of bug spray?), so the FIGC has contacted the clubs of 48 players that Donadoni has on his ...
Gattuso's Summer of Change
By chris | May 6th, 2008The big news of the week on the market front has been the less-than-shocking revelation that Mathieu Flamini is leaving the Emirates for Serie A - only mild surprise being it's not for Torino, seemingly his destination, but for big bucks in Milan. Gi ...
If Del Piero goes to Euro 2008, he'll equal a record
By Francesco | May 1st, 2008Interesting article today from goal.com. It says that if Alex Del Piero's name is on Donadoni's 23 man final roster this May, he will equal a record. What is this record? The number of final tournaments played by an Italian player. Of course, it' ...
Luciano Moggi Somehow Stoops To A Lower Level
By chris | April 22nd, 2008There are a few things all Italians can agree on when it comes to calcio. One is obviously the Azzurri. Another is that they'd all have Gianluigi Buffon's babies, which is kind of a subcategory of the first one, but worthy of its own statement regard ...
Future Phenoms; A Collective Ode. Part 1
By chris | April 9th, 2008This comes from Marco at the Italy World Cup Blog, a nice two-parter on future phenoms the boot has to offer. Despite their young age, the likes of Romans Alberto Aquilani and Daniele De Rossi , La Viola’s Pazzini , Juve stalwarts Giorgio Ch ...
Del Piero Gets Euros Call Up In Sticker Form
By chris | April 9th, 2008The Italian company Panini puts out stickers books or albums for the children when the big tournaments come rolling around. Each team participating gets its own album, and each player has a sticker representing them, which can then be placed in the b ...
Palermo v. Juventus LiveBlog
By alessio | April 5th, 2008Welcome to TheOffside's liveblog of the Palermo-Juventus game, week 32. Palermo have lost 4-in-a-row and Juve is in relative good form. Looks like Nocerino is filling in for Zanetti in the center. Morganti is our ref today. Make your own conclus ...
Azzurri Tidbits
By fortunato | April 2nd, 2008With his second half appearance against Palermo this past Sunday, Uruguayan midfielder Mariano Bogliacino has appeared in 100 games with Napoli, totaling 13 goals over his Napoli career and in my opinon, his most memorable goal came in Serie B agains ...
A Couple Of Azzurri-Tinted Perspectives
By chris | March 27th, 2008Authors: Gianfranco & Francesco Instead of a Milan biased recap of the Spain-Azzurri game I thought I would call on the help of my Italy Offside Amici to all give a little recap of the friendly. Check out our thoughts. Gianfranco-AC Mila ...
Exhibitions. Woo. Yay.
By chris | March 26th, 2008Spain 1 - Azzurri 0 It wasn't a good game, it wasn't a bad game. It was just sort of....eh. A performance befitting a meaningless game. No great revelations either, except that maybe kinda sorta perhaps Marco Materazzi isn't starting material anym ...
Azzurri v Spain Mini-Preview
By chris | March 25th, 2008Basically, nothing is going to be decided today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are). Fringe guys could up their probability of being selected again the next time around, or vice-versa, but there's still too much time between now and April 7th f ...
The Don’s Done Deal; Not So Done
By chris | March 21st, 2008Author: Marco Page: Livorno & Italia. Looks like The Don won’t be signing his contract just yet. Roberto Donadoni managed the Italy squad all the way into Swiss Austria and is quite proud of his accomplishment. He’s positive that what he
Striking Problem: Is Amauri The Solution?
By chris | March 19th, 2008Author: Marco Team: Livorno (& occasionally Roma) This was floating over at the Italy World Cup blog, but it needs a bigger audience. And voila, here it is. The reigning World Champions are looking forward to their Swissaustrian stay this summe
Friday News Dump
By chris | March 7th, 2008• La Viola took down Prem boys Everton by the score of 2-0 yesterday via Zdravko "I Heart Ana Ivanovic But She Doesn't Heart Me Back" Kuzmanovic and Riccardo Montolivo in the first leg of their UEFA Cup Matchup. This win is crucial for calcio, because e
The Final Nail In Antonio Cassano's Azzurri Coffin
By chris | March 2nd, 2008Whaddya know, another goal, another meltdown from Antonio Cassano - proving he's just as boiling hot and icy cold as ever. Talentino started the meltdown off in splendid fashion by scoring his 3,147th goal in the last month (or so it seems). Then he kicke
Italia 3 - 1 Portugal, Blue Boys kicked Portugese Coq !
By Marco | February 7th, 2008After seeing the Azzurrini beat reigning U21 Euro champs Holland on Tuesday, the Big boys decided to spank C. Ronaldo and friends 3-1 on Wednesday night! The Azzurri started off the match in their Nice Retro blue Kits with a 4-3-2-1 formation . T
Video Of The Day : Italy - Portugal Goals !
By Marco | February 6th, 2008Italy's 3-1 win over C. Ronaldo's Portugal in Zurich is a great morale boost for the Azzurri. They have started 2008 well. Let's hope this is a sign of things to come. Here are the goals, audiovisualy speaking of course : Luca Toni ! Italie 1-0
Awaiting the Austrian Swisses, Italia vs Portugal Preview
By Marco | February 5th, 2008* Free Azzurrini fix right here Italia - Portogallo It’s international soccer time again! Italy will be facing Portugal in Zurich on Wednesday. It’ll be their first match since 2004. Both teams have qualified for the Swissaustrian Euro2008
Samp v Siena: More Cassano
By Martha | January 26th, 2008The more consistently Antonio Cassano plays, the more I worry about the Azzurri. It seems increasingly likely to me that Roberto Donadoni will take him to the Euros, if only because the media and the public will explode noisily if he doesn't, and he would
News Round-Up As Donadoni Keeps Talking
By Martha | January 24th, 2008•In case you missed it, Atalanta beat Milan 2-1 yesterday despite, as often happens with Milan's opponents, having much less of the ball, and the worse of the play. (La Gazzetta gave Pato a 4.5. Nico Burdisso, who was lasted less than eight minutes befo
Random Parma Video 7: Cigarini "The Professor"
By Francesco | January 17th, 2008The first time I saw Luca Cigarini play, I knew he would become something special. I just had one of those feelings. The way he commanded the midfield, and how every team mate gave the ball to him to start up the play just showed me how good he was. T
Midweek News Roundup
By Martha | January 16th, 2008•The first FIFA rankings of 2008 are out, and nothing has changed among the top three -- it's still Argentina, Brazil and Italy, in that order -- let alone the top 18. (The US did, however, manage to drop down to 20, having been passed by Nigeria. I'm n
News Roundup As We're Forced to Think of WC 2010
By Martha | January 15th, 2008•Even though we're still months from the start of Euro 2008, it's evidently not too early to think about World Cup qualifying, as the schedule of qualifying fixtures was announced today (and how delightfully optimistic of C4 to illustrate their story wi
Livorno for Sale or Aldo Spinelli is Cranky
By Marco | January 9th, 2008During the Italian winter holiday, Mr. Spinelli took in the soothing breezes that the beautiful Republic of Mauritius had to offer. From his vacation hideout, Mr. Spliffs declared that his Livorno adventure will come to terms at the end of the curren
Giant News Roundup As Global Warming Really Kicks In
By Martha | January 8th, 2008•Holy crap, Alberto Aquilani made it through a match! Quick, wrap him and cotton wool and put him away until the weekend. •As Jeremy reported this morning, Cagliari are doing their level best to convince themselves (and anyone else who cares) that
YouTube Tuesday: Azzurri Thespians
By Martha | January 8th, 2008[link] It's been a while since we've had a YouTube Tuesday, but BundesligaJan dug up this clip, and it's more than worthy of being featured. It's the trailer for a movie called L'Allenatore nel pallone 2, which has something to do with the Italian fo
Amauri Has Learned a Lot From His Agent
By Martha | December 31st, 2007Amauri's agent Mariano Grimaldi is, from all available evidence, an unrepentant sleazebag. In order to keep his client's name in the press, he has no compunction about telling bold-faced lies about other clubs and their interest, as well as Amauri's relat
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