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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 17, 2012
You’re looking at one happy man. After Cesare Prandelli’s Italian side gave three unconvincing performances to start World Cup qualifying, the Azzurri went into their most important game with their feet on the gas and came out vindicated. The Danish side the Italians faced today looked to be the Italy’s toughest obstacle on the road to Brazil. FIGC showed how important they...
Published: September 3, 2012
Most people think of the World Cup as the one-month summer showpiece that draws in almost a sixth of the world’s population to watch. But the World Cup is much more than that. In fact, the World Cup started last year, with the early stages of qualifying in regions like Oceania and Asia. Now that the European Championships are over, Europe will embark on its qualification run, and...
Published: June 5, 2012
On June 10, Italy and Spain will contest what is likely one of the most anticipated group-stage openers in the history of the European Championships. The last two World Cup champions will face off against each other with high stakes. With two other tricky group opponents in Croatia and Ireland, defeat in this match could severely hamper the loser’s chances of making it out of the group...
Published: May 22, 2012
Every team has a fulcrum, a player on which their game hinges and whom being without seriously compromises their play on the field. For Italy, that player is Andrea Pirlo. Without his set-piece skill and pinpoint passing, the Italian attack quite simply grinds to a halt. There is no greater example of Pirlo’s importance to the Azzurri than the debacle that was Italy’s performance...
Published: May 16, 2012
After a long, long wait, Cesare Prandelli has finally announced his 32-man preliminary roster for Euro 2012. Some are old standbys, some are uncapped rookies. Prandelli will announce his final 23-man squad on May 29, they day that the final two friendlies for the Azzurri, against Luxembourg and Russia, get underway. Who on the 32-man roster will make that list? Let’s look and...
Published: May 8, 2012
On June 10, the last two World Cup champions, Italy and Spain, will face off in the first game of Euro 2012‘s Group C. It will be an important match for the two world powers, who will be looking to gain an advantage in a tricky group to make it through to the quarterfinals. The Italians have been difficult opponents for the reigning World and European champions. In 210 minutes over the last two...
Published: April 27, 2012
According to the research of ESPNSoccernet’s Norman Hubbard, Juventus have supplied more World Cup-winning players than any other team in the world. The bianconeri have been the club base for 24 players who have had the honor of lifting the Cup. Of those, 22 of them were Italians—the only two foreigners being Zinedine Zidane and Didier Deschamps of France’s triumphant...