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 ...

Massimo Oddo starting anew in Germany

One of the Italians to move abroad this summer was World Cup winning fullback (and team barber) Massimo Oddo. The 32 year old right back ...

And the first manager sacked is...

Who had their bets on Stefano Colantuono? The Roman manager has been sacked only after one game by Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini. Colantuono was sacked ...

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 ...

Serie B Preview 2008/2009

Along with Serie A this weekend, Serie B will kick-off as well. The second division has many exciting teams this year and it should provide ...

Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: S-U

In the final part of the preview, we finish off with Sampdoria, Siena, Torino, and Udinese, along with some predictions for the coming season. SAMPDORIA ...

Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: M-R

Here's the third installment of the Serie A preview. In this part we take a look at Milan, Napoli, Palermo, Reggina, and Roma. MILAN This ...

Daily Dose 08.26.08

Something to read while you reflect on the worst robbery attempt ever... Starting a new blog with some bad news (Boca Juniors Offside) Does Shevchenko Pave the ...

Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: F-L

Here we go with the second installment. In this preview we'll look at Fiorentina, Genoa, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, and Lecce. FIORENTINA 2007/2008 was a good ...

Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: A-C

Our beloved Serie A kicks off this weekend and it's preview time. After thinking that last season was a tough season to predict, this season ...

SuperCoppaItalia

So as you can see from the title, 2 things happened in the calcio world this weekend. We had the SuperCoppa, and we had the ...

Video of the Week: Did somebody say SuperCoppa?

Finally, after weeks of anticipation, the curtain to the 2008/2009 Serie A season will be raised. The SuperCoppa always brings joy to fans starved of ...

Innocent Elbow Leads To Defensive Questions

It was bad enough that I found Gabriel Cichero's elbow as innocent as a babies coo, but even the league thinks it was bad - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lumezzane president a little bitter about Balotelli

So as we know by now, 18 year old phenom Mario Balotelli finally received his Italian citizenship at a ceremony at the town hall in ...

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 ...

Jozy Altidore's First Olympic Goal - Masterpiece.

The Slave Camp at Lazio

This has been news in the calcio world recently. When Lazio first met up for pre-season training in mid-July, coach Delio Rossi made a list ...

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 ...

Studs Up: Fergie and Ramos Taunt Wenger

Poor Arsene Wenger has enough problems trying to scrape cash together for a midfielder (or a defender, which is what he needs if you ask ...

Daily Calcio News and Notes: 8/5/08

Here's the calcio news that I thought was most interesting today: -Luciano Spalletti said that: "Our club can't just go out and buy whoever it wants, ...

More Trouble for Joey Barton (So We Have More Web Comics Making Fun of Him)

Good news for one man violence machine Joey Barton: he was released from prison recently. Bad news for one man violence machine Joey Barton: the English ...

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 ...

Milan win Trofeo TIM

Today at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin the Trofeo TIM was held between Juventus, Inter, and Milan. It was a triangular tournament with each game ...

Look Out, Barton's About!

That headline is only funny if you grew up watching Jeremy Beadle's semi-legendary hidden camera show on ITV in the UK. And even then it's ...