Donadoni “preliminary roster” supposedly found

By: Francesco | 8 Comments

For the past few days, many newspapers have been making predictions about what Roberto Donadoni’s final roster for Euro 2008 will look like. These rosters are purely speculation and shouldn’t be trusted at all. Although yesterday, the newspaper Informazione reported that television channel Antenna 3, a television station based in Lombardia, “discovered” Donadoni’s real preliminary […]

Category: Azzurri, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: Serie A, Donadoni, Italy, Euro 2008, U-19, Beach Soccer, Olympics, Casiraghi, U-21, Rumors - News, Azzurri, Tag Index

Nazionale News

By: Francesco | 16 Comments

Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven’t they ever heard of bug spray?), so the FIGC has contacted the clubs of 48 players that Donadoni has on his possible selection list and has told them to administer the […]

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Tags: Donadoni, FIGC, National Team, Italy, Serie A, Soccer, Calcio, Football, Futbol, Cassano, Del Piero, Inzaghi, Rumors - News, Azzurri, Tag Index

If Del Piero goes to Euro 2008, he’ll equal a record

By: Francesco | 36 Comments

Interesting article today from goal.com. It says that if Alex Del Piero’s name is on Donadoni’s 23 man final roster this May, he will equal a record. What is this record? The number of final tournaments played by an Italian player. Of course, it’s no surprise that the man that holds the record right now […]

Category: Azzurri

Tags: Del Piero, Maldini, Baggio, National Team, Azzurri, Tag Index

Future Phenoms; A Collective Ode. Part 1

By: chris | 18 Comments

This comes from Marco at the Italy World Cup Blog, a nice two-parter on future phenoms the boot has to offer.

Despite their young age, the likes of Romans Alberto Aquilani and Daniele De Rossi , La Viola’s Pazzini , Juve stalwarts Giorgio Chiellini and Raffaele Palladino,Torino’s Ale Rosina and Udine’s Fabio Quagliarella are no longer […]

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A Couple Of Azzurri-Tinted Perspectives

By: chris | 13 Comments

Authors: Gianfranco & Francesco
Instead of a Milan biased recap of the Spain-Azzurri game I thought I would call on the help of my Italy Offside Amici to all give a little recap of the friendly. Check out our thoughts.

Gianfranco-AC Milan
A loss is never a good thing, and I am not the type of guy to […]

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Exhibitions. Woo. Yay.

By: chris | 22 Comments

Spain 1 - Azzurri 0

It wasn’t a good game, it wasn’t a bad game. It was just sort of….eh. A performance befitting a meaningless game. No great revelations either, except that maybe kinda sorta perhaps Marco Materazzi isn’t starting material anymore (he was thisclose to a red in fricken friendly for throwing his hand at […]

Category: Azzurri

Tags: Azzurri, Camoranesi, De Rossi, Pirlo, Gattuso, Cannavaro, Buffon, Tag Index

Azzurri v Spain Mini-Preview

By: chris | 26 Comments

Basically, nothing is going to be decided today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are). Fringe guys could up their probability of being selected again the next time around, or vice-versa, but there’s still too much time between now and April 7th for any definitive decisions to be made. It’s just a friendly and there […]

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Tags: Azzurri, Pirlo, De Rossi, Gattuso, Ambrosini, Perrotta, Toni, Quagliarella, Aquilani, Borriello, Amelia, Oddo, , Tag Index

The Don’s Done Deal; Not So Done

By: chris | 8 Comments

Author: Marco
Page: Livorno & Italia.
Looks like The Don won’t be signing his contract just yet.
Roberto Donadoni managed the Italy squad all the way into Swiss Austria and is quite proud of his accomplishment. He’s positive that what he has done already is enough to guarantee him a lengthier contract. However, someone should tell […]

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Striking Problem: Is Amauri The Solution?

By: chris | 25 Comments

Author: Marco
Team: Livorno (& occasionally Roma)

This was floating over at the Italy World Cup blog, but it needs a bigger audience. And voila, here it is.
The reigning World Champions are looking forward to their Swissaustrian stay this summer. This is one of the deepest teams on the Travelling National Carnival. Marco Amelia’s performance for Livorno […]

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Friday News Dump

By: chris | 7 Comments

• La Viola took down Prem boys Everton by the score of 2-0 yesterday via Zdravko “I Heart Ana Ivanovic But She Doesn’t Heart Me Back” Kuzmanovic and Riccardo Montolivo in the first leg of their UEFA Cup Matchup. This win is crucial for calcio, because even if Inter pulls off a quasi-miracle against Rafa’s […]

Category: Rumors & News, Azzurri, Sampdoria, Juventus, Roma, AC Milan, Palermo, Fiorentina, Serie A

Tags: Serie A, Fiorentina, Cannavaro, Cassano, AC Milan, Palermo, Roma, Juventus, Azzurri, Sampdoria, Rumors - News, Tag Index