Features news coverage of Italy and its players, including match reports and general football news.
The Olympics are less than a week away, but the football tournament will kick off with the start of the preliminary round on the 6th, two days before the big show starts.
So, similar to the Euro 2008 Best XI that I did several months ago,...
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games kick off in a month, with the 2008 Olympic football tournament from 6th to 24th August.
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Italy are, along with Argentina and Brazil, one of the favourites to win a medal in the Olympic Football tournament this year. Italy Olympic Football squad for Beijing 2008:
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Olympic Football squads for the 16 teams participating at the 2008 Olympics:
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We’ve looked at the players, now it’s time to look at the managers involved at Euro 2008 and find out how they got on:
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Italian keeper Marco Amelia who plays for Livorno has agreed terms with Palermo and will make his switch to the Serie A side soon. He snubbed the offer from AC Milan, Lazio and Liverpool to choose the not so popular Palermo.
The deal...
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Football is cruel.
Italy, winners of a penalty shoot-out in the World Cup Finals in 2006, were dumped out of Euro 2008 after losing on penalties to Spain. Defeat, on penalties especially, is not easy to take. However, to proceed and to ensure...
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Spain v Italy
Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna
Quarterfinals, Euro 2008
Sunday 22 June 2008
Kickoff: 20:45 CET, 14:45 EST
Two hours of turgid, negative football resulted in the inevitably dramatic penalty...
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23 million people watched as the Azzurri defied their critics and defeated the French 2-0 in a spectacular night in Zurich. Now they...
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France 0-2 Italy. Ladies & gentlemen, this is how you mix a “Blue Lagoon”: 1 oz Vodka (Pirlo), 1 oz Blue Curaçao (De Rossi), cherry (Buffon’s save on Benzema), 1 part Lemonade. Don’t have any...
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France 0-2 Italy (Pirlo, pen. 25′, De Rossi 62′)
Letzigrund Stadium
Group C, Euro 2008
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Kickoff - 20:45 CET, 14:45 EST
Italy defeated France, 2-0, in a heated Group C match...
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We all like a bit of a discussion and debate at the start of the week so I thought I’d take a look at some the talking points from the last week, say what I think about them and ask you to get involved.
I’ll take three things of note from...
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16 matches gone, 15 more to go. After the agonisingly long qualification process, the tournament itself feels brutally short - then again, that’s probably what makes up most of the excitement at this level, the fact that every match is a final.
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The Group of Death lives up to its reputation as both Italy and France are left on the verge of being knocked out as Holland join Portugal and Croatia in the knock-out stages.
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Images courtesy of Ian Blanchard and the English Football Association.
In February 2008, I had the pleasure and privilege to interview Mr. Ian Blanchard, who became...
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Euro 2008 fixtures and results, all in one place. Bookmark and share away:
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After the tedium of France’s insipid goalless draw with Romania in Zurich earlier in the day had left many viewers wondering quite how Group C had earned the clichéd title of “The Group of Death”, Holland & Italy served up a footballing...
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Netherlands 3-0 Italy. The Azzurri’s adventure at Euro 2008 could not have started worse. 3 goals like the 3 words which can be used to describe today’s match: offside, counter-attack,...
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Italy 0-3 Netherlands (Nistelrooy 26′, Sneijder 31′, Bronckhorst 79′)
Group C
Stade de Suisse, Berne
9 June 2008
Kick-off: 20:45 (CET)
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Head to head records for Euro 2008’s Group C participants - France, Italy, Netherlands, Romania.
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The start of Euro 2008 is only two days away, which means this is the worst time to get injured, or in Austria’s case, to get a little lazy.
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There are only three more days to go before Euro 2008 begins, and though it’s an abbreviated day in the news, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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Photo courtesy of Paul Blank, www.postproduktie.nl.
On Monday, in a training accident in Austria,...
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There’s not a lot going on in the news today, but of the few headlines, there is one pretty significant one, and it’s not good news if you’re an Italy fan.
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With a week to go before Euro 2008 starts, the 16 participants are busy with their final tune-ups before next weekend. Some teams look to be on firmer ground than others as they go through their final warm-up matches and training sessions before the...
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Four years ago, Dan Leo told me about a new ranking system. At least, it was new to me. Like most of us, I had grown accustomed to the monthly FIFA rankings....
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Euro 2008 features 16 teams with each consisting of a squad of 23 players (with 3 goalkeepers). The final squads were submitted on 28 May 2008 and the teams will kick off Euro 2008 on 7 June 08.
Here’s a complete list of all 16 squads...
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Under new coach Roberto Donadoni, Italy looked far from convincing as they launched their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign by drawing 1-1 at home to minnows Lithuania and losing 3-1 away to a France side desperate for revenge after their World Cup final...
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Looking at the world of football through the eyes of the press can give you a perverted and totally false view of what’s actually happening and on a broader scale what the world actually thinks.
So we turned to the world of football shirts...
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