Articles tagged with "azzurrini"
Azzurrini lose to Hungary, qualification in doubt, worst Italy U-21 team of all time?
By Francesco | November 13th, 2009The Italy U-21's continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back ...
Casiraghi makes U-21 Qualifying call-ups with 6 new faces
By Francesco | August 28th, 2009The new Italy U-21 side (who lost their first friendly August 12 vs. Russia 3-2) will now start qualifying for the 2011 UEFA U-21 European ...
Vacation Time.
By Francesco | August 2nd, 2009Well, it's that time of the summer again. I'm off to the old country tomorrow, so the blog will be inactive for a couple of ...
30 Italian promising players to keep an eye on
By Francesco | July 15th, 2009Often we see a young player explode onto the calcio scene and everyone turns heads and says "Where did this kid come from?". Well, now ...
Casiraghi signs contract extension and remains U-21 manager until 2011
By Francesco | June 30th, 2009After Italy's elimination from the U-21 Championship last Friday, Gigi Casiraghi was unsure about his future. He said that he would let the night pass ...
A Livorno Mercato (We keep Candreva)
By Marco Stucazzo | June 28th, 2009Here's a bunch of unorganized,misspelled, mercato ramblings Francesco Ceravolo leaves Livorno a winner and New DS is Nelso Ricci and he's been working overtime already... Spoke to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Few Loose Ends
By Johonna | April 1st, 2009The international break is almost over and I thought I would tie up a few loose ends before we get back in the swing of ...
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 ...
Are we really 2nd best in Serie A ?
By Neil | September 29th, 2008In a word, no. But I'd like to remind Serie A fans of an English soccer saying, "The table never lies." Only Lazio ...
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 ...
The Italian Ronaldo?
By Ale | May 26th, 2008So this is Juventus (on loan at Serie B's A.S. Bari) striker Davide Lanzafame, who's been getting a little press recently for his Ronaldo-esque style. "He ...
Italia 2 - 1 Holland/Netherlands, Highlights and Bitching Beppe Rossi
By Marco | February 6th, 2008* Highlight further down Giuseppe Rossi scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win over reigning Euro Champions Holland/Netherlands. Rossi was the one ...
Azzurrini getting Ready for Beijing !
By Marco | February 5th, 2008The U21 Squad is facing Holland, in their first test since qualifying for the Beijing Olympics with their Penalty shoot out win against Portugal. The ...
Odds and Ends as We Prepare to Eat Ourselves Sick
By Martha | November 21st, 2007•The Azzurrini played the second half with 10 men in the freezing cold rain, but still managed to pull out a 1-0 away win over ...
The 3 Ugliest Men In Italy Unite And Frog Transfers
By Marco | November 20th, 2007I'm sorry about this picture but i had to share the pain. Just Plain Nasty! This picture was taken by Alex Jones at a an unholy ...
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 ...
Azzurrini Win One For the Good Guys, Or: Suck It, France!
By Martha | August 21st, 2007In a game that featured the usual, staggeringly high number of changes wrought by all international coaches when they hear the word "friendly," the Azzurrini ...
A new Napoletano?
By Joe | July 10th, 2007There's a good deal of smoke and talk about Napoli picking up Juventus and Azzurrini midfielder Antonio Nocerino. Nocerino and Juventus will meet this evening. ...
More Penalties at U21s; Azzurrini Into Olympics
By Martha | June 22nd, 2007After Wednesday's outrageous marathon of a shootout between England and Holland, last night's truncated edition felt like it had hardly gotten started and then, suddenly, ...
Too Little, Too Late For Azzurrini
By Martha | June 18th, 2007Well, there's certainly something to be said for having finally turned in a solid, 90-minute performance. It's just too bad it came it came on ...
Azzurrini Spend an Hour Not Looking Like Crap; Take Point From England
By Martha | June 15th, 2007Holy Moses, did you see those first 30 minutes? Particularly during the period surrounding England's goals, the Azzurrini were like the Bad News Bears of ...
News Roundup of Randomness and Azzurrini Sadness
By Martha | June 11th, 2007•First and foremost on the random train in the rumor that Roma are interested in cast-off Palermo deity Eugenio Corini. According to reports in Italy, ...
U21 Championship: Good News, Bad News for Italy
By Martha | June 11th, 2007On one hand, the opening of the U21 European Championship is great news for Italy: The country can show off its young stars and, ideally, ...
Mmm ... News Roundup
By Martha | May 10th, 2007•As Gianfranco over at the Juventus blog reported yesterday, Juve target Torsten Frings just did a rather abrupt about-face -- he was loving Juve just ...
Hands up, Who Wants to be Giampaolo Pazzini?
By Martha | March 24th, 2007Let's see: Fastest goal (28 or 29 seconds, depending on who you ask) in the history of Wembley Stadium, first goal in the new Wembley, ...
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