Azzurrini Spend an Hour Not Looking Like Crap; Take Point From England
By: Martha | June 15th, 2007
Holy Moses, did you see those first 30 minutes? Particularly during the period surrounding England’s goals, the Azzurrini were like the Bad News Bears of calcio: Tripping over the ball, giving it away under no pressure whatsoever, and generally allowing England to run rings around them. Really, it could — probably should — have been 4-0 after 26 minutes, given the pair of early chances Lita missed. Thankfully, however, the Keystone Cops approached ended late in the first half, and Giorgio Chiellini even managed to bundle the ball into the England goal, enabling Italy to go into locker room not entirely suicidal.
To be fair, the second half was much better, and when Alberto Aquilani grabbed the the equalizer in the 69th minute, the point seemed well-deserved. Pierluigi Casiraghi, however, was NOT a happy man after the match, telling the press “It was a bad result.” Oh go on, Luigi! Tell us how you really feel. He did say that he liked the second half during which Italy “had about 30 shots and could have won,” it’s just that the opening was so dire it seems to have rendered him unable to really enjoy anything that followed.
Because the England coach is Stuart Pearce (Who was positively glowing during the match — he was slightly pleased with his team’s performance.), the game couldn’t pass without some sort of controversy — apparently the two managers got into some sort of minor argument during the match which resulted in Pearce being told to “piss off.” Asked about it in the press conference, Casiraghi said “He is not the nicest person,” an insult which I’m sure sent Pearce home in tears.
So, the Azzurrini go into the final group game needing a win against the equally desperate Czech Republic, as well as a loss by England to Serbia (who are already through) to advance. Yeah — not looking so promising.
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Well, goes to show what happens to every hyped Italy team that ever went into an international tournament.
Maybe FIGC will think of starting to manufacture points deductions and match-fixing scandals to get his teams to win anything.
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their* teams.
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Did Rossi play well?
BTW, I love that kid. I hope the elegant (and very well-groomed) Mr. Tinky brings SuperJohnny to Juve; if an American actually played for Juventus (an Italo-Americano, no less!)… dude. I think I might cry.
Ok, now I’m gonna try really hard not to get my hopes up.
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Rossi played the second half and did his usual Parma thing — somehow getting the ball and shooting often and early. I think one of the reports said he had three shots in the first 10 minutes of the half; he was definitely a threat throughout, and very active, if rarely on target. Still short and quite skeevy, though. (His hair periodically reminds me of Del Piero’s, Mike, so I’m not surprised you’re hopelessly in love with him.) The Gazzetta gave him a 5.5, and suggested he was a little TOO eager to shoot. (Rossi? Eager to shoot? Never.)
And I hope you know how much it takes out of me to be aware of your Juve obsession and still like you. Complimenting Ranieri does help your cause, though.
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Hmm, roswitha. Perhaps using only Italian referees at international events would do the trick?
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I’m such a huge Rossi fan because, though he’s like 8(?) years younger than I, he’s kinda my hero: born in US, joined Parma youth academy, bought by wankers ManU, saved Parma on loan scoring like 9 goals in 19 games… He’s basically living my dream life (especially if Claudio brings him over).
You really think his hair is similar to Alex? I don’t see it. Anyways DP’s got uber-cool hair, and he’s just perfect. (oops, did I just end our friendship?)
As for being a JUVE fan, I get dirty looks and curses and ridiculed all the time. But honestly, it’s not my fault. I didn’t pick Juve; Juve picked me.
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When I think about Del Piero, he’s either got this “Uh?” look on his face with his hair going all over, or he’s riding his scooter in that Nike ad, so in my head he’s sort of perpetually befuddled. This has nothing to do with his ability, which is tremendous, it’s just how I think of him. (And give Rossi, what, 30 years? to catch up and his hair will be just like Ale’s, trying to look thick and failing. Just you wait.)
The only transfer rumor I’ve read about Rossi so far this summer was to Fiorentina, but that was basically a big lie stemming from him saying “Why yes, I DO like playing next to Pazzini for the Azzurrini.” Really, anything that gets him away from Man U will be great, Parma would be gravy.
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