Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 6 (Plus Serie B + National Team Call-ups!)

At the end of the 6th Giornata we still saw surprises. Inter is top of the table, but they share a place with Lazio and ...

Great Italian Players: Ciro Ferrara

In the modern game you always hear stories of players being prima donnas or trying to get a bigger contract or making a move to ...

The Gattuso Incident

We heard the battle cries and chilling declarations after the crazy injury to Gennaro Gattuso, but now we get to see the incident. And it's ...

De Rossi leads Italy past Georgia

(first, sorry for the lack of posts the last two days, we'll be back on scheduled programming starting now) Daniele De Rossi scored his first ever ...

Tuesday Milan Musings: Some Red, Some Black & Some Blue

The past few days I have engaged in some really good discussion with some folks regarding the national team, and Italian football in general. ...

Balotelli scores on Azzurrini debut

After the delusion that was the Olympic games, the Azzurrini returned to the pitch to continue qualifying for the UEFA 2009 U21 Championships. The big ...

Lippi's list of 50

So it seems to be a FIFA rule that each national team manager must submit a mega-list of 50 players that will be available for ...

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 1

The 2008/2009 Serie A season has finally kicked off, and what a weekend it was. There were so many interesting games and results. For the ...

Second Honeymoons Are Uncool

I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but I'm guessing a second honeymoon lacks a bit of the zest and flair of the ...

The Curse of the August Friendly continues

The annual August friendly is not really something Azzurri fans look forward too. In Italy, people are away vacationing at the beach and therefore are ...

Monday Milan Musings

-The same way we started last week by saying the drubbing from Chelsea was no big deal; we need to say that same thing this ...

Weekend Wrap-up: Call-ups, Coppa, and Trofeo Berlusconi

As each week passes Serie A gets closer and closer. This was basically the final week of the preseason, as this week there are National ...

Surprise Call-ups from Lippi this weekend?

This Saturday the second coming of Lippi happens. The cigar smoking, Paul Newman look-a-like will make his call-ups for the August 20th friendly vs. Austria ...

Video of the week: Italy's top 100 goals at the World Cup

With the Olympics going on and National Team fever ready to sweep back in when Lippi makes his first call-ups of his second tenure on ...

Olympic dream over for Rocchi and Marchisio

He was the surprise call-up to begin with. Everyone looked at Casiraghi's Olympic call-ups and said with a puzzled look, "Rocchi?" (come on, you know ...

Giovinco scores a Golazzo and the Azzurrini ease past Honduras

Italy defeated Honduras 3-0 in their first group match of the 2008 Summer Olympics and got off to a great start. Pierluigi Casiraghi actually surprised ...

Azzurrini ready to kick-off in Beijing

For all those people that since June 22, 2008 have been anxiously waiting to see the Azzurri back in action, those weeks of anticipation are ...

Daily Calcio News and Notes: 7/31/08

Here's what I scrounged around for today: -Milan striker Marco Borriello has been operated on and will now start his recovery. Reports are he will be ...

MEZZAGIORNO.......PASSIONE, TUTTI, TUTTI!!

A Little Taste of Southern Class...Ciao!

Italy U-19's fall in Euro Final

After a unexpectedly getting to the final in the first place, the Italy U-19 squad fell to Germany 3-1 and had to satisfy themselves with ...

5 Things I learned about Calcio when I was in Rome

1. The stereotype is pretty much true. The stereotype in Rome is that in the city of Rome most people are Roma fans, while Lazio fans ...

Euro Report: Expansion Talk and Spanish Breakthrough

We're back with another report, now that the quarterfinals of Euro 2008 are over and it's down to the final four. Daryl Grove joins ...

He should have taken Pippo

Well, this is an Inzaghi blog, what did you expect me to say? That aside there was a definite lack of goals in this ...

Azzurri Tee Time - Alessandro Del Piero Practices His Swing...

. After a pretty rough week of group stage games (resolved in extremis only on the last matchday), the Italian team was given a day of ...

Euro 2008: Italy 1-1 Romania - Capitan Del Piero Trumped by Capitan Buffon...

. Cue another disappointing performance by Italy. Cue more doubts being cast on the Azzurri's Euro 2008 chances. Cue waiting one more day to finally see ...

Calcio Debate: Who should be eligible to play for the Azzurri?

Camoranesi already plays for Italia. Amauri is looking to do the same. Who deserves to play for Team Italy? Is is based on blood, geography, or ...

Netherlands 3-0 Italy: ADP's Euro 2008 Adventure Didn't Start in the Best of Ways...

. Boy, that was a rough Monday for everyone huh? Well... not everyone... not anyone wearing orange certainly. For the people wearing blue though... ouch! . . ADP came ...

Old Friends, New Foes

Saturday Afternoon Hangover and and a Little Blue

With the Euro’s getting underway it’s hard to focus on anything but the games at hand. After just watching the Czechs, with Janks on ...

Arrivederci

Well, it's summer. And summer usually means vacation. So although I love writing about calcio here daily on the Offside, I'm leaving for Rome tonight ...