Articles tagged with "national-team"
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
By roberto | October 28th, 2009tic toc tic toc tic toc... KABOOM!!! Tonight won't be the type of showcasing you hoped it would Cassano. If I'm Ferrara I'm betting you have ...
Video of the Week: Gila
By Francesco | October 16th, 2009After the international break, the man of the moment is undoubtedly Alberto Gilardino. The Fiorentina striker scored 4 goals in 2 matches with the Azzurri, ...
Weekly Dose 14.10.09
By Jan | October 14th, 2009One of these things is not like the others: Football, Louis van Gaal, Empathy. (NRC Handelsblad) Form is temporary. Fate is permanent? (ESPN Soccernet) They've got beer ...
Roberto Donadoni: What's his deal?
By Francesco | October 7th, 2009As everyone knows by now, Roberto Donadoni was relieved of his duties as Napoli manager and was replaced by former Sampdoria boss Walter Mazzarri. We ...
U-20 World Cup starts tomorrow for Italy
By Francesco | September 24th, 2009Despite having a strong U-21 side, Italy's other youth national teams don't really have a glorious history. All of Italy's youth focus is directed to ...
The Evolution of Günter Netzer's Hair
By Jan | September 14th, 2009There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia ...
International week is boring
By Francesco | September 9th, 2009International week is boring. There's really no news from Serie A, and we get a week of Lippi dodging questions about Mourinho and Cassano. Here's ...
Looks like Amauri won't be Italian anytime soon
By Francesco | September 3rd, 2009By now he has made his decision. Amauri wants to play for the Italian national team. Dunga doesn't want to call him up for Brazil, ...
Looks like Amauri won't be Italian anytime soon
By Francesco | September 3rd, 2009By now he has made his decision. Amauri wants to play for the Italian national team. Dunga doesn't want to call him up for Brazil, ...
Mid-Week News Dump
By Johonna | September 3rd, 2009This International break could not come at a worse time. Here we are, all pumped up after our first win of the season and now ...
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 ...
Melo's Official Presentation
By roberto | July 22nd, 2009Arrigo Sacchi took the damn words right out of my mouth... "Juve have plenty of tireless midfielders. Aggressive players who have stamina and can fight ...
VotD: Buon Compleanno Boniperti
By roberto | July 4th, 2009Un vero 'leader' IERI... OGGI... DOMANI... SEMPRE JUVE!!!
The Official Biography of Diego
By roberto | June 22nd, 2009First of all my heart goes out to those of you who've been waiting awhile for this piece. Truth be told, every time I started ...
125... 126!
By roberto | June 21st, 2009Love him or hate him, Cannavaro is about to equal Maldini's record of Italy caps. Tonight though they're in tough with Brazil since they need ...
Italy fall to Egypt 1-0
By Francesco | June 18th, 2009Pretty much sums up the game quite nicely. I think there are way too many problems with this team and it wouldn't really be good ...
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 ...
Rossi and De Rossi combine to defeat USA 3-1
By Francesco | June 15th, 2009For analysis, check the Italy World Cup Blog. Here are the goals: National Anthem and Line-ups: 1-1 Giuseppe Rossi 2-1 Daniele De Rossi 3-1 Giuseppe Rossi Thank God these brown ...
Player Ratings: Juventus Season 2008-2009
By alessio | June 6th, 2009As part of the first portion of a seasonal review (hurrah unemployment) I've decided to, like last year, do a rating for every player who ...
Lippi picks final 23 for Confederations Cup roster
By Francesco | June 4th, 2009Today was the FIFA deadline to submit the final 23 man roster going to the Confederations Cup, and Marcello Lippi has picked his 23 man ...
Lippi makes Confederations Cup/Friendly call-ups and he officially hates Cassano
By Francesco | May 28th, 2009Today the list of 35 players was announced that will play in a friendly on June 6th in Pisa vs. Northern Ireland and the upcoming ...
The Explosion of Gaetano D'Agostino
By Francesco | May 22nd, 2009When you read news about Serie A you always hear about the big stars and how they are performing, but you rarely hear about other ...
Video of the Week: L'Italia siamo noi
By Francesco | March 27th, 2009In honor of the national team break, I thought the video of the week should be national team-themed. Here's a great little video I found ...
Where's Cassano? Lippi still won't answer...
By Francesco | March 24th, 2009After seeing Marcello Lippi's latest national team call-ups this Sunday, the big question all over Italy has been "Where's Cassano?". The media has written articles ...
Gattuso gives his opinion on the Amauri situation, and Amauri answers back
By Francesco | February 26th, 2009We all know by now that Rino Gattuso is not one who keeps his thoughts to himself. He'll tell you like it is, and he's ...
Azzurri disappoint vs. Brazil, media still afraid of Lippi
By Francesco | February 10th, 2009So the big friendly everybody waited for lived up to it's billing as an entertaining encounter, but it was entertaining for Brazil fans. Carlos Dunga's ...
Lippi makes call-ups and he's still perplexing Italians everywhere.
By Francesco | February 7th, 2009Usually we get the call-ups on Sunday afternoons, but with the Italy game being Tuesday we get Marcello Lippi's call-ups a day early. Lippi has ...
Video of the Week: Italy-Brazil
By Francesco | February 5th, 2009With the big hype surrounding the Italy-Brazil friendly this coming Tuesday, I thought it would be a good idea to show all the big games ...
New Italy Kit Unveiled
By Francesco | February 4th, 2009Some of you remember a couple of months ago when I posted that Puma was planning to kit Italy with a light blue/brown shorts combo ...
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