Articles tagged with "national-team"
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 ...
Brazil Closes Beautifully An Ugly Year
By Bruno Romani | November 19th, 2008Brazil 6 - 2 Portugal Can I even argue against this score? It was one of those matches perfect for being used in TV commercials. If ...
Photo of the Day: Mike & JT
By Jack | November 18th, 2008You may have heard, Chelsea youngsta Michael Mancienne has been called into the England senior team for the Three Lions' friendly with Germany in Berlin ...
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 ...
Brazil 0 - 0 Colombia: You're from here, Remember?
By Bruno Romani | October 16th, 2008The disconnection between Brazil and the Brazilian squad reached a limit tonight in Rio. Brazilian players forgot how to play in Brazil. Tonight’s result was ...
Brazil 4 - 0 Venezuela
By Bruno Romani | October 12th, 2008Kaka, Robinho, Adriano and Robinho. And there were people preaching about the great improvement of Venezuela in this blog when Brazil lost that friendly match. ...
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, ...
BREAKING NEWS: ALEX FROM INTER CALLED FOR THE NATIONAL SQUAD
By Bruno Romani | October 6th, 2008With the injury of Julio Baptista and not being able to call players who play abroad, Dunga called Alex from Inter, one of the best ...
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 ...
Remake and Original: The Llama (Ger 2008, Ita 1990)
By Jan | September 30th, 2008Mladen Kristajic (Schalke) and Kevin Kuranyi (Schalke) reenact the infamous spitting incident between Frank Rijkaard (then AC Milan) and Rudi Völler (then AS Roma) during ...
The Players to Take On Colombia and Venezuela
By Bruno Romani | September 25th, 2008We always hope this is the last time Dunga calls the players. but this time I won't say anything. These are the players to take ...
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 ...
Weekly Dose 19.09.08
By Jan | September 19th, 2008The table never lies: Hamburg are on top. (Bundesliga Talk) That's why Rod Gilmor looks at the mixed fortunes of Martin Jol's current and former club. ...
Brazil 0 - 0 Bolivia: Back to Normal
By Bruno Romani | September 11th, 2008Dull midfield. Check. Extreme Slow Pace. Check. Lack of Agression. Check. Excessive Arrogance. Check. Lack of Passion. Check. Chaotic Organization. Check. Fading Stars. Check. General laziness. Check. Fans booing. Check. Yes, after the .
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 ...
Independence Day for Dunga
By Bruno Romani | September 8th, 2008A few things about the victory of Brazil over Chile must be said: -Today, Chile and Bolivia (our next rival) are the weakest sides in the ...
Quote of the Day: Philipp Lahm on the Fridge of the Future
By Jan | September 5th, 2008"In 20 years' time the fridge probably won't stand in the corner anymore. The fridge will walk beside you and hand you a bottle of ...
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 ...
Still on the job, Dunga Announces the Players for the Next Round of the WC Qualifying
By Bruno Romani | August 22nd, 20089 players who went to the Olympics. And the first appearance of Flamengo's leftback Juan. Hopefully, this was the last time Dunga calls players. However, ...
Bronzil
By Bruno Romani | August 22nd, 2008The space dedicated in this blog to the bronze won by the male squad will have the size of the passion, organization and mobility that ...
Saddest and Proudest Post of the History of this Blog
By Bruno Romani | August 21st, 2008This is the saddest post since I started this blog. We lost the final of the Olympics for the USA in the extra-time. And the ...
Brazil 4 - 1 Germany: The Underdogs are in the Final Again!
By Bruno Romani | August 18th, 2008Brazil started as the underdog. A smell of inferiority complex was in the air. Germany scored in a mistake of Érika. Germany missed a few ...
Brazil 2 - 0 Cameroon: Same Horror Movie with a Different Ending
By Bruno Romani | August 16th, 2008The same competition. The same rivals. The same passion by the rivals. The same pressure on our coach in case the gold does not come ...
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 ...
Brazil on Prozac 3 - 0 China
By Bruno Romani | August 13th, 2008Come back later for a full review. With such a boring match, I need to sleep now. The two goals by Thiago Neves are hidding ...
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