World Cup 2010
International week is boring
By: Francesco |
11 Comments
International 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 the highlights from today’s game. Italy won 2-0, finally a decent performance. Pirlo excelled as a trequartista, Zambrotta actually ran up and down the wing, De Rossi is the most [...]
Tags: Azzurri, Bulgaria, Calcio, football, Futbol, Italian National Team, Italy, National Team, Nazionale, Players, Results, Serie A, Soccer, World Cup 2010, World Cup QualifyingLooks like Amauri won’t be Italian anytime soon
By: Francesco | 12 Comments
By 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, and Amauri knows that Lippi is interested in calling him up to the Azzurri. Amauri thought he would be getting his passport sometime this month and that Lippi would call [...]
Italy fall to Egypt 1-0
By: Francesco | 32 Comments
Pretty 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 to reiterate my feelings after you’ve all seen my thoughts after every national team game (Never have been in favor of Lippi’s return; we need a fantasista *cough* Cassano *cough*; [...]
Lippi picks final 23 for Confederations Cup roster
By: Francesco | 20 Comments
Today was the FIFA deadline to submit the final 23 man roster going to the Confederations Cup, and Marcello Lippi has picked his 23 man squad. He had already chosen 13 names, but he added on 10 more. There are no real surprises (besides the inclusion of Davide Santon), and the squad is mostly what [...]
Tags: Azzurri, Calcio, Confederations Cup, football, Futbol, Italy, Marcello Lippi, National Team, Players, Results, Rumors & News, Serie A, Soccer, World Cup 2010Lippi makes Confederations Cup/Friendly call-ups and he officially hates Cassano
By: Francesco | 31 Comments
Today the list of 35 players was announced that will play in a friendly on June 6th in Pisa vs. Northern Ireland and the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup. 22 players were called up for the Northern Ireland game, while 13 will skip that match and go straight to South Africa. Lippi said in recent weeks [...]
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By: Francesco | 15 Comments
When you read news about Serie A you always hear about the big stars and how they are performing, but you rarely hear about other players that are having a good season. We always hear about Kaka, Ibrahimovic, Totti, Del Piero, Buffon, etc but we never hear about Consigli, Guarente, Sorrentino, Marcolini, and Padoin for [...]
Video of the Week: L’Italia siamo noi
By: Francesco | 4 Comments
In 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 on youtube, which goes through the history of the national team in 3 minutes and shows us that we too are part of the national team (L’Italia siamo noi=We are [...]
Where’s Cassano? Lippi still won’t answer…
By: Francesco | 29 Comments
After 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 on it and are severely questioning Lippi’s decision to leave out El Pibe di Bari yet again. It really is mind-boggling how Lippi can leave Italy’s most talented player at [...]
Azzurri disappoint vs. Brazil, media still afraid of Lippi
By: Francesco | 15 Comments
So 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 side played a great match, a real samba style mixed with grit and determination. Italy, on the other hand, at times looked like San Marino (especially in the first half) [...]
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