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The annual August friendly is not really something Azzurri fans look forward too. In Italy, people are away vacationing at the beach and therefore are not in front of the televisions watching the game. In addition to that, the August friendly every two years takes place after a major tournament, which means we usually get to see a new manager in his first game in charge, experimenting with ...
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As each week passes Serie A gets closer
and closer. This was basically the final week of
the preseason, as this week there are National Team games on Wednesday and then the SuperCoppa on Sunday, and teams start there normal preparation for the ...
So as we know by now, 18 year old phenom Mario Balotelli finally received his Italian citizenship at a ceremony at the town hall in Concesio, near Brescia. Everyone is happy, or at least most people are happy. One person who is not on the jovial side is Lumezzane president Renzo Cavagna. For those of you not familiar with Lumezzane and are currently staring into space with a puzzled look ...
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This Saturday the second coming of Lippi happens. The cigar smoking, Paul Newman look-a-like will make his call-ups for the August 20th friendly vs. Austria in Nice (why are we playing vs. Austria in France?). Lippi has said that he will call players that are most in-form from pre-season training, and he has already hinted that there will be some new faces. He already confirmed that new ...
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With the Olympics going on and National Team fever ready to sweep back in when Lippi makes his first call-ups of his second tenure on Saturday, I thought I’d dedicate this video of the week to the Nazionale. With World Cup 2010 qualifying just around the corner, here’s a segment from a Gazzetta dvd called “La Grande Storia della Nazionale” showcasing Italy’s top ...
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He was the surprise call-up to begin with. Everyone looked at Casiraghi’s Olympic call-ups and said with a puzzled look, “Rocchi?” (come on, you know you did it). Casiraghi gave his explanation, saying the Lazio hitman was an experienced player, a model professional, and an excellent addition to the Italy side who could score many goals in this Olympic games. Well now, ...
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This has been news in the calcio world recently. When Lazio first met up for pre-season training in mid-July, coach Delio Rossi made a list of players that did not fit into his plans for the coming season. These players are: Roberto Baronio (considered as a youngster to be the next great Italian midfielder, never happened), Simone Inzaghi (Pippo’s younger brother who has always been ...
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Italy defeated Honduras 3-0 in their first group match of the 2008 Summer Olympics and got off to a great start. Pierluigi Casiraghi actually surprised many with his starting XI, as Salvatore Bocchetti started alongside Domenico Criscito in the center of defense, Lorenzo De Silvestri started over Marco Motta on the right, and probably the most surprising change was Robert Acquafresca ...
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Honduras
For all those people that since June 22, 2008 have been anxiously waiting to see the Azzurri back in action, those weeks of anticipation are finally over. Granted, this isn’t the Nazionale (we’ll have to wait until August 20th for that), but the Azzurrini are always a fun bunch to watch, as we have so many talented young talents and this Beijing Olympics should be very ...
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Here’s the calcio news that I thought was most interesting today:
-Luciano Spalletti said that : “Our club can’t just go out and buy whoever it wants, everything has to be carefully done and hopefully we’ll have some players that can benefit our roster. Malouda and Baptista are two targets that we want, but we’ll have to see how the deals evolve. Our target ...
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65 soccer players. 10 days. 1 goal- to get signed by a professional soccer team. Is this the newest Italian reality show? No, it is not. This scenario is actually real, and it’s going on at the famed Coverciano training complex in Florence right now. Every summer players without a club go to Coverciano for a training camp where they hope to impress various scouts of Serie A, B, and ...
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For this week’s video of the week, we’ll look at a video of highlights of all the games of last season involving the “big teams” (Inter, Juventus, Milan, Roma, and Fiorentina even makes an appearance). These are the teams that also will most probably be the major forces of the coming 2008/2009 season. Here’s the video:
Here’s also a nice goal ...
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Today the draw was held for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup qualifying rounds. Juventus, Fiorentina, and Napoli all awaited the draw to see who they have to beat to get into the group stage of their respective tournaments (and Juventus and Fiorentina hoped it wasn’t Atletico Madrid or Galatasaray). After the draw, you can say that all three clubs can be satisfied.
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Here’s what I scrounged around for today:
-Milan striker Marco Borriello has been operated on and will now start his recovery. Reports are he will be out for around 2 months. (could be less if he puts a lot of hard work into the recovery process.)
-Pierluigi Casiraghi is predicting a big Olympic performance from Lazio striker Tommaso Rocchi. Casiraghi says that Rocchi has the ...
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Today at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin the Trofeo TIM was held between Juventus, Inter, and Milan. It was a triangular tournament with each game lasting 45 minutes, and each match goes to penalties in case of a draw. 3 points for a win, 2 points for a win in penalties, and 1 point if you lose in penalties. The first match was Juventus-Milan with these starting formations:
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After a unexpectedly getting to the final in the first place, the Italy U-19 squad fell to Germany 3-1 and had to satisfy themselves with second place. Italy had as much talent as the Germans, but lacked on the physical and psychological level. Italy started well with Fernando Forestieri, Alberto Paloschi, and Stefano Okaka Chuka all very active, and Paloschi almost put Italy ahead after ...
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Weekend Wrap-up: Call-ups, Coppa, and Trofeo Berlusconi