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Features news coverage of Italy and its players, including match reports and general football news.
Stat Attack: Barcelona top scoring charts across Europe
Out of the top leagues in Europe (Spain, England, Italy, Germany and France), Barcelona have scored the most goals and maintained highest goals per game ratio. They have scored 67 goals in their 21 La Liga games so far this season – an average of 3.19 goals per game. Barca have only conceded 11 goals…
Italy vs Serbia postponed: Masked Serbian fans disrupt match with flares (Video)
The Euro 2012 Qualifier between Italy and Serbia was to be played in Genoa, Italy. Since the Serbian fans arrived in Genoa, they had been causing trouble for the police and it only got worse when the game started. The referee, Craig Thomson, at first took the two teams back for 35 minutes after they…
Serbian violence causes abandonment of Italian fixture
The Euro 2012 qualifier between Italy and Serbia had to be abandoned after just six minutes following crowd trouble in Genoa. The game in actual fact been postponed for thirty-five minutes prior to kick off as trouble mounted in the away end of the Stadio Luigi Ferraris (home of Sampdoria) where Serbian fans were cascading…
Azzurri attack fires blanks in Belfast
The Azzurri were on Friday nnight held to their first draw of Prandelli’s tenure at Windsor Park, a venue where both England and Spain have lost in recent times and Italy had lost and drawn their previous games. It failed to prove third time lucky for the Azzurri despite controlling the game for long periods…
On the rise: Football’s hottest 21 under 21
During the past year we have seen many young talents emerge onto the scene, here we wrap up the best of the best, football’s hottest prospects.
Euro 2012 Qualifiers – A look at the Azzurri so far
After 2 games played, 2 wins and 6 points, Italy currently find themselves sitting on top of Group C in the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign. Anything less from a results point of view would have been a massive disappointment but following the 5-0 win over the Faroe Islands Prandelli’s honeymoon period has continued. From the…
Football in Italy: Crisis, Problems & Solutions – Part II
As we said in the first part of this article, Italian soccer crisis does not involve the national teams only, clubs have big problems too.
Football in Italy: Crisis, Problems & Solutions – Part I
The bitter disappointment for the Italian National Team poor figure at the FIFA WC 2010 is just the tip of the iceberg of a crisis that involves all Italian soccer, including clubs. Inter’s win in Champions League came without a single local player on the pitch, but at the same time saved Italy’s fourth spot…
Prandelli’s Azzurri go down to the Ivory Coast
Italy’s poor run of results in 2010 continued under the rain of East London on Tuesday night. Cesare Prandelli’s appointment as successor to Marcello Lippi was received with widespread optimism and his squad selection represented a much welcomed revolution despite some questionable choices such as calling up Molinaro at left back. The Italian media focused…
De Rossi Goes Down Hard
I was looking around on the internet for random stuff and ended up on a certain Break.com. Looking around at videos of people getting into stupid accidents and saw an interesting related video’s thumbnail. It had an Italian ‘football player’ going down after a hard tackle from the Paraguayan defense. My first reaction, “Ooh! Football!”…
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