Articles tagged with "azzurri"
Azzurrini defeat Belarus 2-1 and march on to semi-final vs. Germany
By Francesco | June 23rd, 2009The Italy U-21 side went into their last group game with 4 points and only needed a draw to advance to the semi-final, but a ...
Pierluigi Casiraghi: Another One For the Hot Coaches File
By Lotte Cox | June 23rd, 2009His tactics may sometimes be dodgy, but Italy's U21 coach Pierluigi Casiraghi looks so good that we tend to get distracted when we try to ...
Azzurrini defeat Sweden 2-1 featuring the best and worst of Mario Balotelli
By Francesco | June 19th, 2009After the 0-0 draw with Serbia in the opening match, the game against hosts Sweden was very important, as a loss or a draw would've ...
Italy fall to Egypt 1-0
By Francesco | June 18th, 2009Pretty much sums up the game quite nicely. I think there are way too many problems with this team and it wouldn't really be good ...
Azzurrini draw opener with Serbia 0-0
By Francesco | June 16th, 2009Not a bad start for the Azzurrini but not the best start either. The Italian U-21 side drew 0-0 with Serbia in a game where ...
Rossi and De Rossi combine to defeat USA 3-1
By Francesco | June 15th, 2009For analysis, check the Italy World Cup Blog. Here are the goals: National Anthem and Line-ups: 1-1 Giuseppe Rossi 2-1 Daniele De Rossi 3-1 Giuseppe Rossi Thank God these brown ...
Video of the Week: Sky Sport Italia commercials
By Francesco | June 9th, 2009In Italy, if you want to watch all things calcio, you watch Sky. Sky shows every Serie A game plus analysis shows and other shows ...
Lippi picks final 23 for Confederations Cup roster
By Francesco | June 4th, 2009Today was the FIFA deadline to submit the final 23 man roster going to the Confederations Cup, and Marcello Lippi has picked his 23 man ...
Casiraghi announces U-21 Championship final roster
By Francesco | June 1st, 2009On June 16th, Italy will play their first game of the UEFA U-21 Championship 2009 vs. Serbia. The Azzurrini find themselves in a group with ...
Lippi makes Confederations Cup/Friendly call-ups and he officially hates Cassano
By Francesco | May 28th, 2009Today the list of 35 players was announced that will play in a friendly on June 6th in Pisa vs. Northern Ireland and the upcoming ...
Bobo Vieri rescinds contract with Atalanta
By Francesco | April 2nd, 2009There was a time when Christian Vieri was arguably the best striker in the world. He was a goalscoring machine and would hit the back ...
Bobo Vieri rescinds contract with Atalanta
By Francesco | April 2nd, 2009There was a time when Christian Vieri was arguably the best striker in the world. He was a goalscoring machine and would hit the back ...
Video of the Week: L'Italia siamo noi
By Francesco | March 27th, 2009In honor of the national team break, I thought the video of the week should be national team-themed. Here's a great little video I found ...
Where's Cassano? Lippi still won't answer...
By Francesco | March 24th, 2009After seeing Marcello Lippi's latest national team call-ups this Sunday, the big question all over Italy has been "Where's Cassano?". The media has written articles ...
Casiraghi names new U-21 side
By Francesco | March 20th, 2009After this summer's UEFA U-21 Championship, the current cycle will end and a new cycle (2009-2011) will start, which will result in a new Azzurrini ...
A Tale of Two Midfielders
By Francesco | March 19th, 2009There have been many players in Italy who are hyped by the media and pundits and in the end they never really amount to nothing ...
Gattuso gives his opinion on the Amauri situation, and Amauri answers back
By Francesco | February 26th, 2009We all know by now that Rino Gattuso is not one who keeps his thoughts to himself. He'll tell you like it is, and he's ...
Guess who's birthday is today- Roberto Baggio!
By Francesco | February 18th, 2009So when I was a little kid watching calcio back in the '90's, my idol was none other than Roberto Baggio. Everything about him amazed ...
Stop Press: Canna Took His Shirt Off! Oh, Wait.
By Lotte Cox | February 11th, 2009Ok, so it's not exactly news when Fabio Cannavaro gets his kit off, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. And now he's doing ...
Azzurri disappoint vs. Brazil, media still afraid of Lippi
By Francesco | February 10th, 2009So the big friendly everybody waited for lived up to it's billing as an entertaining encounter, but it was entertaining for Brazil fans. Carlos Dunga's ...
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | February 10th, 2009As much as I want to write a rousing post match recap of a meaningless friendly, I have to come clean here and say this ...
Alberto Rumors
By Stephanie | February 10th, 2009Over the past week there have been many sites saying everything from "Alberto is only waiting on AS Roma to sign a contract until 2013," ...
Lippi makes call-ups and he's still perplexing Italians everywhere.
By Francesco | February 7th, 2009Usually we get the call-ups on Sunday afternoons, but with the Italy game being Tuesday we get Marcello Lippi's call-ups a day early. Lippi has ...
Video of the Week: Italy-Brazil
By Francesco | February 5th, 2009With the big hype surrounding the Italy-Brazil friendly this coming Tuesday, I thought it would be a good idea to show all the big games ...
Daily Dose: February 4th, 2009.
By chris | February 4th, 2009Stuff to read while you dribble through a minefield with no one watching (til now)......... The new (sorta) and improved (definitely) Azzurri kit. (Italy Offside) ESPN fails ...
New Italy Kit Unveiled
By Francesco | February 4th, 2009Some of you remember a couple of months ago when I posted that Puma was planning to kit Italy with a light blue/brown shorts combo ...
The Craziest Italian Football Quotes of the Year
By Francesco | January 9th, 2009While Italian football provides excellent quality and entertainment on the pitch, we all know that it equally provides excellent quality and entertainment off the pitch. ...
Marco Boriello: Never Subtle
By Lotte Cox | December 17th, 2008Generally in this situation I'd say something like "dumb as a box of hammers," but since Milan striker Marco Boriello's (ex) girlfriend recently cheated on ...
Italian Gigolo Outs Serie A Players
By chris | December 5th, 2008(Post best served with this soundtrack - and it even has a footy reference.) Another day, another potential scandal in Italy. Luckily this one's a whole ...
The Azzurri not to be the Azzurri anymore?
By Francesco | November 28th, 2008Since their existence, the Italian national team has always worn "Azzurro", the shade of blue that is known in the English-speaking world as "Azure Blue". ...
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