Articles tagged with "buffon"
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 18th, 2009
The news is in. The top 30 nominees for the Ballon D'or have been announced. Check it out here.
What is this weird balloon thingy though? ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 17th, 2009
September 6th 2008. The setting: the entire peninsula is devastated after what we saw at the Euros three months earlier. Our illusions of the solidarity, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 13th, 2009
Just a reminder that we have one game left in World Cup qualifying against Cyprus, a game that counts for absolutely nothing. We're top of ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 21st, 2009
There is no doubt in my mind as to who the best goalie is world football is today. Not Cech, not Van Der Sar, and ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 9th, 2009
I'd be thrilled.
Basic summary of the game: a very very good performance. Marchisio, Buffon, Pirlo, and DDR especially shined. There was confidence, smooth ball movement, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 6th, 2009
I feel like I give Lippi a pretty decent amount of slack. I call him out for not calling up players that I feel would ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Jun 19th, 2009
The Italian sorpresa was replaced with an Egyptian one; Italian catenaccio was played with perfection by the Egyptian players, the army of Italian strikers couldn't ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Jun 17th, 2009
Can we?...this is the question in every Egyptian fan's head right now. After the great display against Brazil, it is now the turn of the ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Jun 11th, 2009
Love them, hate them..they are the world champions; you may criticize their style for being too defensive (catenaccio) but they have millions of followers who ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Apr 1st, 2009
The entire game- excluding of course the parts I didn't get to see, which may have been different, reminded me of how my PS3 FIFA ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 10th, 2009
So it's official: Napoli have sacked Reja and brought in everyone's favorite Azzurri ex-coach, Roberto Donadoni:
“SSC Napoli announce they have removed Eduardo Reja from ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 10th, 2009
Looking at the starting lineup for the Brazil-Italy game, I could tell that we were going to have trouble from the get-go:
Buffon, Zambrotta, Legrottaglie, Cannavaro, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 25th, 2009
I've said before that Brazil's midfield is worse on paper than their defense. ("Worse" might be the wrong word to use here. It's more like ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 16th, 2009
It's been far too long since I wrote in this blog- way too long. I could go on with a list of excuses- some legit ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 30th, 2008
De Breuk with his Sar moment... Or...no wait...Sar in the CL finals with his Breuk-moment!
This December, Edwin van der Sar announced he will stay Man ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 17th, 2008
There's been a fair amount of criticism thrown at Lippi for this round of call ups. I personally think they're pretty good, but some people ...
Posted on: Switzerland World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 11th, 2008
A very funny and original book has just come out in Switzerland called "Football - Switzerland 1:1". Essentially, it's a picture book featuring shots from ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 9th, 2008
Come Saturday, we play our next World Cup Qualifier, away against a tough Bulgarian side. In case you guys forgot, here're the standings so far ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 7th, 2008
Here're your daily news nuggets on all things Azzurri:
Lippi has come out and said why he left out Cassano from the upcoming qualifiers: purely as ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 6th, 2008
Italy must have some of the shittiest footy doctors out there. Players are dropping like flies and staying out for indeterminate amounts of time- see ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 21st, 2008
Serie A is back in business, and it's in full swing. There were some great games over the weekend. For a full list of results, ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Julian | Sep 3rd, 2008
Amelia is out and will not play in the upcoming qualifiers. He picked up a back injury in training and word is that the doctors ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Chris | Jun 5th, 2007
Before we get into the state of Azzurri affars, I'd like to say I'll be taking over the duties as Italian national team correspondent. My ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 27th, 2006
It's official. The Ballon d'Or goes to Italy's Cannavaro. (Who I actually like. Even though he's Italian. Don't tell anybody.) ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Nick O'Neill | Jul 6th, 2006
World Cup 2006 has given players a chance to show the world how good they are. Some have impressed, others have flopped. Here are some ...
