Articles tagged with "group-e"
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Apr 23rd, 2009
I'm sorry for the lack of posts recently, but it's that time of year: finals. In 2 weeks from Saturday I'll be done with my ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Marlon | Apr 20th, 2009
It's never a good thing when your best player is your keeper. Maybe that's just an opinion I hold.
Congratulations to Tim Howard and Everton ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Apr 15th, 2009
By now, this story is probably old news. Man U sign a young Italian player from Lazio. They sub him in during the dying minutes ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Apr 14th, 2009
Posts like these are so hard to do. They're extremely speculative in nature, and calling something over a year in advance when footy changes so ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Apr 9th, 2009
After all the discussion on Lippi, tactics, and players, I thought it'd be nice if we took a break from arguing and got back to ...
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 31st, 2009
In a lot of ways, this game tomorrow will tell us much about the Azzurri. For one, if we win it, it will tell us ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 28th, 2009
I didn't get to watch the entire game. I started from about the 60th and from what I saw, we played basically how we've been ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 28th, 2009
Italy starting 11 (probable): Gianluigi Buffon; Gianluca Zambrotta, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Fabio Grosso; Daniele De Rossi, Andrea Pirlo, Angelo Palombo; Antonio Di Natale, Vincenzo Iaquinta, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 24th, 2009
Chris from the Catania blog gives his opinion on who deserves a spot on the Azzurri:
The potential for national side call-ups from Sicily's "other team" ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 23rd, 2009
This was written before Lippi announced his call ups, but it gives us Rolf's views on which Sampdoria players should be called up.
Giampaolo Pazzini
Are anyone ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 22nd, 2009
Lads and gents, our squad to play Ireland and Montenegro:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juve), Marco Amelia (Palermo), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: Salvatore Bocchetti (Genoa), Fabio Cannavaro ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 21st, 2009
Whew. We've been through quite a bit so far- we've covered potential Azzurri players from Juve, Lazio and Chievo, and Napoli and Serie A in ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 19th, 2009
Today we turn our attention to the capital of Italy, Rome, and the city of Verona. Before we get to that, though, a quick note ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 18th, 2009
Last time, alessio gave us his shout outs for Juve players that could be staples in the Azzurri. Today, Francesco from the Serie A Offside ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 17th, 2009
At the end of my last post, I asked any SerieA bloggers over at theoffside to help me out with looking for upcoming Italian talent. ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 14th, 2009
At first glance it's just been a shitty year for Italy in European competitions. The only team we have left representin' the peninsula is Udinese, ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Marlon | Mar 11th, 2009
Marlon is a recent graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and a former writer for the Denver Post (where he notoriously watched Euro 2008 during every ...
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 | Mar 9th, 2009
First of all, I know I haven't blogged in a while, but the usual excuse applies here: really no news going on in the national ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Brooks Peck | Feb 25th, 2009
Not in the LL Cool J way, but, you know...scoring goals. He did it again -- this time in Fulham's 2-1 FA Cup replay win ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 25th, 2009
Shaky start for Italian clubs so far. Roma lost 1-0 to Arsenal in a game where they could've lost even more, Inter tied Man U ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 20th, 2009
UEFA Cup in a nutshell: Fior lost, Milan tied, Udinese tied, and Samp lost. If you want more info, check out their respective blogs. Basically, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 17th, 2009
Word is that Nesta's ever-recurring back problem is forcing him to undergo surgery. Apparently, the pain is so bad that he's had trouble sleeping. At ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 13th, 2009
It's been 3 days since Italy- Brazil. Three days of hindsight, three days of reflection.
My first thoughts on the game-we effin' sucked. It was a ...
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 | Feb 10th, 2009
Half time: Absolutely pathetic. I'm embarrassed for the team, and there's so much wrong that I can't even say it all now.
Full write up after ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 4th, 2009
For the Confederations' Cup this summer, Lippi's men will be donning a new jersey. I haven't seen a picture/mock up of it yet, but it's ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 2nd, 2009
No, this post has nothing to do with the Azzurri. But the transfer window just closed and there's been some mighty interesting last minute transfers... ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 31st, 2009
After what feels like years of wondering if Italy or Brazil will call him up, Dunga made the announcement today: Amauri is getting a call ...
