Italy

With ten matches left, the title race is heating up in the Italian Serie A. The only real contenders left that can still tame the Inter lion and triumph are Juventus. With a game in hand, Inter are just 4 …

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Two of the most fancied sides in world football visit the Emirates on 10 February for an international friendly. They will also meet in the group phase of the FIFA Confederations Cup next June in South Africa. Here are a …

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Cast your mind back to Saturday August 15th 1998. Manchester United were kicking off their season with a home game against Leicester City and one David Beckham was making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. His infamous moment of …

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I get nervous when footballers release the inevitable ghost-written autobiography. Will I be violently slapped in the face reading rubbish in the shape of My Defence by Ashley Cole, Robbie Fowler’s: My Autobiography , Michael Owen’s yawner, the extremely boring …

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I’m probably the biggest proponent of the video ref alive. We all know how things are. Refs are only human. Expecting them to get all their decisions right the way they have to make them, in a matter of seconds, …

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Marcello Lippi was hailed as a hero after guiding Italy to their first world cup success in 24 years in 2006. He retired after his victorious run in Germany with a promise to return to the football world.

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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 …

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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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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 …

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