Articles tagged with "italy"
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: M-R
By Francesco | August 27th, 2008Here'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 ...
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: F-L
By Francesco | August 26th, 2008Here 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 ...
FIFA 09 - The Demo and Real Time Player Info!
By Dave Martinez | August 26th, 2008Chomping at the bit to play some FIFA 09? Well, your opportunity may come a bit sooner than you think. EA will be releasing an ...
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: A-C
By Francesco | August 25th, 2008Our 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
By Francesco | August 25th, 2008So as you can see from the title, 2 things happened in the calcio world this weekend. We had the SuperCoppa, and we had the ...
Maradona Was Napoli's Second Choice.
By chris | August 22nd, 2008Unless you happen to be a really big fan of a player or his club, chances are you don't get too excited about footballer autobiographies. ...
Video of the Week: Did somebody say SuperCoppa?
By Francesco | August 22nd, 2008Finally, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yes Buffon, you tell them.
By Matthew | August 15th, 2008Thanks for the warm welcome people, we've got a coalition of Juventus fans here at the offside. Pretty awesome. Buffon. The man is confident and has ...
Lumezzane president a little bitter about Balotelli
By Francesco | August 15th, 2008So as we know by now, 18 year old phenom Mario Balotelli finally received his Italian citizenship at a ceremony at the town hall in ...
FC Köln match preview
By j | August 15th, 2008The new kids (die geißböcke) in the Bundesliga visit Volkswagen Arena for the opening match of the campaign. After brilliantly leading Wolfsburg to the UEFA ...
Daily Dose: 08.14.08
By chris | August 14th, 2008Stuff to do while you pop out a human being on your front lawn...... Chatting up the always good Rafael Honigstein. (Bundesliga Talk) A glimpse at Frank's ...
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 ...
Daily Dose: 08.13.08
By chris | August 13th, 2008Stuff to read while you get robbed by Winnie the Pooh...... Stevie G's new £350,000 garden ornament. (The Spoiler) Franky Lamps is staying in London forever and ...
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 ...
O'Neill means business
By Martini Extra Dry | August 12th, 2008Martin O'Neill has made so many signings this season that no-one even seems to be able to keep count! You read one paper and they ...
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 ...
Photo: Alien on the Phone
By chris | August 8th, 2008If this kid's going to achieve greatness, he's gotta do something about these celebrations. (Fotonet)
The Slave Camp at Lazio
By Francesco | August 8th, 2008This 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
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 ...
Getting Down to Business
By Nick | August 6th, 2008Hello all, I'm Nick and I'll be taking over the Toro blog. First off I want to thank Daryl and Chris for letting me take over ...
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: 8/5/08
By Francesco | August 5th, 2008Here'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, ...
Anybody still want to sign a calciatore?
By Francesco | August 3rd, 200865 soccer players. 10 days. 1 goal- to get signed by a professional soccer team. Is this the newest Italian reality show? No, it is ...
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 ...
Milan win Trofeo TIM
By Francesco | July 29th, 2008Today at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin the Trofeo TIM was held between Juventus, Inter, and Milan. It was a triangular tournament with each game ...
Italy U-19's fall in Euro Final
By Francesco | July 27th, 2008After a unexpectedly getting to the final in the first place, the Italy U-19 squad fell to Germany 3-1 and had to satisfy themselves with ...
blame the special one
By j | July 25th, 2008That's right blame José Mourinho, it's all his fault. While he's off in Milano, likely sitting at great little café having an espresso (at least ...
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