Articles tagged with "azzurri"
Totti Gets Bionic Boot, Teases Azzurri Return
By Martha | November 29th, 2007Next time you see Francesco Totti on the pitch, he could well actually be hovering right above it: The crack (I might mean that literally, ...
Juventus 5 Palermo 0 - Recap: A Black and White Affair
By roberto | November 27th, 2007By now you've read the articles, heard the news, and seen the highlights. Juventus simply dismantled Palermo. So much so in fact, that Palermo's Head ...
Monday New Roundup As We Ride the Zampa Crazy Train
By Martha | November 26th, 2007•Manuela Prandelli, the wife of Fiorentina manager Cesare Prandelli, died this morning after a long illness. I'm trying to resist the old chestnut about it ...
World Cup Qualify Draw: It's All Good(ish) For Italy
By Martha | November 25th, 2007As you may have heard, the wildly elaborate World Cup Qualifying draw was held today. Italy (yes, you have to qualify even if you have ...
Friday News Roundup as We Get Back in the Saddle
By Martha | November 23rd, 2007•Francesco Totti was back in full training for 15 minutes yesterday before getting hurt again. Needless to say, he's not going to Genoa. (RomaChris tells ...
Azzurri v Faroe Islands: Take That, Part-Timers!
By Martha | November 22nd, 2007Roberto Donadoni busted out another B-team yesterday, returning only three starters from the Scotland match, but the team he sent out was more than enough ...
Azzurri Wrapping up that Qualification Thing
By Martha | November 21st, 2007How quickly things change -- just a few days ago, the press (and the rest of us) were in a Euro 2008 frenzy, hanging on ...
News Roundup as Milan Try Frantically to Find Michael Jordan's Number
By Martha | November 19th, 2007I'm traveling Tuesday morning; will get back to the grindstone as soon as is humanly possible. •Kaka's dreams: 1)To captain Brazil; 2)To meet Michael Jordan; 3)To ...
We'll See You In Swissaustria
By chris | November 18th, 2007A Win Is A Win Is A Win Is A Win They're through, and that is all that matters. Finito. Done. Hell, they can lose ...
The Bitter Brigade, Or: Let's Lock Rino and Ray Ray Up Together
By Martha | November 18th, 2007As everyone has no doubt hear by now, France's resident rabble rouser Raymond Domenech is telling the press that his criticism was the source of ...
Scotland v Azzurri: Well, That'll Do
By Martha | November 17th, 2007First things first: A 2-1 win on an injury-time winner by Old Man Panucci means three points for the Azzurri: They're going to be playing ...
Azzurrini Crush Azerbaijan
By Martha | November 16th, 2007Not even bothering to score until I turned the game on with just over five minutes left in the first half, the Azzurrini went goal-crazy ...
Glasgow, Here They Come
By Martha | November 16th, 2007It's 24 hours until the Azzurri face Scotland, and the quotes are flying thick and fast, from Captain Canna worrying the youngsters will crumble under ...
Game Faces On: Scotland - Azzurri Preview
By chris | November 15th, 2007Scozia - Italia The time has come. One game which means nearly everything. And yes, we're looking past the international juggernaut that is the Faroe Islands. ...
Breaking: Travels Bans for 15 Clubs, Azzurri to be Kicked in Glasgow
By Martha | November 15th, 2007[Posts on the death of Gabriele Sandri and subsequent events are collected here; this post is being updated with the latest news. It's been announced ...
Your Sudafrica 2010 Azzurri Lineup
By chris | November 14th, 2007(Going in and out of Azzurri-mode during the break.) Looking Ahead Roberto Donadoni’s reign has been so disenchanting that many people have already taken to looking towards ...
Azzurri: Totally Not Playing For a Tie, So Shut Up Already
By Martha | November 14th, 2007[All posts related to the death of Gabriele Sandri and its aftermath are collected here. The most recent is on top, and this one is ...
News Round-Up As Italy Gets a Hideous New Kit
By Martha | November 13th, 2007[If you're looking for information on the death of Gabriele Sandri and subsequent events, go here; the most recent post is on top. Inter-Lazio and ...
Livorno Wins Again and F&$K The Police!
By Marco | November 13th, 2007“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not ...
Azzurri: No Room for Pippo or Ale
By Martha | November 12th, 2007[If you're looking for the latest on the tragic events in Italy yesterday and their repercussions, go here. Serie B and C matches are suspended ...
Friday News Roundup As We Try to Stay Warm (When Did Winter Show Up?)
By Martha | November 9th, 2007•The Azzurrini side for the upcoming matches against Azerbaijan and the Faroe Islands was just announced, and both Roma-owned Alessio Cerci and Fiorentina's baby Argie ...
Odds n Ends as We Come Down From Our Collective Sugar High
By Martha | November 1st, 2007•In case you missed it, the ever-classy Adriano bailed yesterday when he found out he wasn't on the bench for Inter's match against Genoa. Rather ...
News Round-Up When There's Not Much Going On
By Martha | October 29th, 2007•Luigi De Canio has finally been confirmed as new QPR boss. (And that is officially the last time I mention that club here, I promise.) •Inter-haters ...
Big Pile of News Before We Get Distracted by Champions League
By Martha | October 24th, 2007•Despite the wins over Georgia and South Africa, Italy have fallen to third in FIFA's ranking, behind both Argentina and Brazil. Curses! This has nothing ...
Azzurri Win, No One Cares - All Hail Georgia
By chris | October 17th, 2007Communist 2 - South Africa 0 What that was was a lot of great foreplay combined with erectile dysfunction until Cristiano Lucarelli finally found that last ...
Azzurri v South Africa, Or: So Many Players!
By Martha | October 17th, 2007To sum up: Total domination; Lucarelli brace; several dozen players and nearly that many debutants. Really, that's all you need to know. Italy's B-team, AKA Lucarelli ...
Azzurri: The Don Busts Out His "B" Squad, Sends His Best Mid To JV
By chris | October 16th, 2007First let's get this out of the way: Azzurri boss Roberto Donadoni is already looking forward to Italy’s Euro 2008 qualifier with Scotland and knows that ...
temper, temper
By Joe | October 15th, 2007If Italians are known for their short fuse and outbursts, then Napoletanos are challenged only by Sicilianos for the undisputed heavyweight champions of Italian red-asses. ...
South Africa Call-Ups, Or: Throwing Rosina a Bone
By Martha | October 14th, 2007[ETA: Traveling Monday; if all goes well, normal posting will resume Tuesday.] As Francesco mentioned in the comments last night, Roberto Donadoni has called up ...
Azzurri 2 - Georgia 0: Blah
By chris | October 13th, 2007Three Painfully Viewed Points A lesson in controlling boooooorreeeedooom. This was worse than watching the France game, because at least with that game you knew by ...
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