Articles tagged with "azzurri"
The Oldest (And Coolest) Man Who Will Ever Appear Here
By Lotte Cox | November 22nd, 2008Marcello Lippi. 60 years old. Recently returned World Cup-winning coach of the Italian National Team. Not lost in 31 straight matches in charge of the NT. Pimp.
Preview: INTER-JUVENTUS; the Derby d'Italia, Good v. Black-And-Blue Evil
By alessio | November 21st, 2008Brief preface to the post. I highly recommend Johonna, Paolo, Kirby, MAD, Ursus, and any other Interistas from the Inter Offside not read any further. ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 12 (plus Serie B and other news)
By Francesco | November 17th, 2008Roma, languishing in the relegation zone before the derby, took on Lazio, who are flying high in the upper echelons of the table. Roma needed ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes - 11/4/08
By Francesco | November 4th, 2008Here's what I found interesting after reading various calcio news sites today: -First, we have another managerial change in Serie A. Chievo haven't won since the ...
Balotelli puts Italy through to Euro U21 2009
By Francesco | October 16th, 2008What can you say about Mario Balotelli? He may be arrogant, he may be overly confident, he may get too many yellow cards, but say ...
Aqui Scores First Goals for the Azzurri!
By Stephanie | October 15th, 2008Since being promoted to the senior Azzurri squad, Aqui has been unable to score. However, that all changed today when he bagged a brace to ...
VotD: The Roman Show
By chris | October 15th, 2008Where has this been all year? One from Vucigol, one and a half from Alberto. Hopefully a sign of things to come - and soon.
Buffon: Out for 2-3 months you say?
By Matthew | October 10th, 2008Well that's no good. According to reliable sources this time, Juventus official website, "an ultrasound scan confirmed the diagnosis of a second-degree lesion" Italy's doctors: "it ...
Thursday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | October 9th, 2008These international breaks are really starting to bug me. Maybe it is because Lippi has taken the fewest amount of Milan players that I ...
Video of the Week: Italy vs. Bulgaria
By Francesco | October 9th, 2008This Saturday our beloved Nazionale takes on Bulgaria in World Cup 2010 qualifying. Italy has a positive record vs. Bulgaria, playing 14 matches in total, ...
Roma Roma Mia
By Stephanie | October 8th, 2008When will the boys start letting me post good news, so I won't see pictures like this anymore? Apparently, Aqui's bad mood has carried over to ...
Buffon out
By Matthew | October 8th, 2008I only say that because i'm angry. I didn't mean it, you're a good guy. But the fact still remains that he's out for about 3 ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 6 (Plus Serie B + National Team Call-ups!)
By Francesco | October 6th, 2008At 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
By Francesco | September 23rd, 2008In 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
By chris | September 10th, 2008We 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
By Francesco | September 10th, 2008(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
By Gianfranco | September 9th, 2008The 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
By Francesco | September 5th, 2008After 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
By Francesco | September 3rd, 2008So 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
By Francesco | September 1st, 2008The 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
By chris | August 20th, 2008I 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
By Francesco | August 20th, 2008The 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
By Gianfranco | August 18th, 2008-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
By Francesco | August 18th, 2008As 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?
By Francesco | August 14th, 2008This 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
By Francesco | August 12th, 2008With 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
By Francesco | August 12th, 2008He 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
By Francesco | August 7th, 2008Italy 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
By Francesco | August 6th, 2008For 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
By Francesco | July 31st, 2008Here'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 ...
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