Articles tagged with "lippi"
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Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 8th, 2009
No not the restaurant, silly. International friendlies!
Marcello Lippi seems to like them. We're playing Holland and Sweden on the 14th and 18th respectively. Call ups ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 8th, 2009
No not the restaurant, silly. International friendlies!
Marcello Lippi seems to like them. We're playing Holland and Sweden on the 14th and 18th respectively. Call ups ...
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 8th, 2009
One game. One more win and we are through to South Africa without having to worry about playoffs. One more match: a convincing enough display ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Aug 10th, 2009
Once upon a time, we had Francesco Totti. A man beloved in his home club, Roma, and envied/hated/deemed overrated by many others. Yet the man's ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Aug 7th, 2009
....kinda:
"If someone does not return to their top condition, then they will not be part of this group. However, the vast majority will be there."
Lippi ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jul 25th, 2009
Just a few choice quotes from our great tactician:
I have the hope, I underline hope, to try and win the World Cup again. To do ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jul 7th, 2009
One of the most hotly debated topics in Italian football is the concept of the Oriundi. Some of you guys might not be familiar with ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 27th, 2009
Just as a refresher, let's go over recent results by our beloved Azzurri:
vs. USA: 3-1
vs. Egypt: 0-1
vs. Brazil: 0-3
3 group stage games, 3 goals scored, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2009
Bert van Marwijk is soaking up impressions at the Confederations Cup in South Africa, one year prior to the real WC. His conclusions for now...
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 | May 11th, 2009
Whew, it's been a long while. I've missed you guys and blogging like crazy. Since I've been gone for so long, I feel like I ...
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 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 | 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 ...
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: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Dec 27th, 2008
2008 is drawing to a close, and it was a hell of the year for the Azzurri. 12 months ago we were looking forward to ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Dec 19th, 2008
Sorry for the brief hiatus. I had finals over the past two weeks, and between studying and sleeping I really didn't have time for anything ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 18th, 2008
Lippi knows that Guiseppe Rossi is a hugely talented lad and could go on to be a great striker. So much so, in fact, that ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 16th, 2008
We've got a friendly away in Greece on this upcoming Wednesday. Lippi announced the boys that will be rep'in Italy:
GK: Curci (Siena), De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 15th, 2008
The big game of this weekend is undoubtedly the Roma derby. It's not quite the massive derby that Inter-AC Milan or Barca-Madrid is, but for ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 6th, 2008
Alessandro Del Piero is like The Office. That show became famous after a hilarious first couple of seasons. Recently, though, it's been arguably wearing the ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 4th, 2008
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Italy Coach Marcello Lippi wants to refresh the look of La Nazionale by bringing in a couple of new faces for upcoming internationals.
The Azzurri and ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 16th, 2008
Disclaimer: The post is pretty long as it is, and only covers the senior team. I was going to post about the younger guys qualifying, ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 14th, 2008
I've got classes soon and FIFA is out today, so I don't have much time to post. But I couldn't just ignore this, so here's ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Oct 13th, 2008
I dunno if I'd give us a thumbs up, but it could've been worse...right?
Not a vintage performance by any means. We looked pretty flat and ...
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 4th, 2008
So when will we see the Azzurri in action next? We play Bulgaria on the 11th, and then Montenegro on the 15th. No news on ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 12th, 2008
I noticed that a lot of club pages over at theoffside have season previews up. I thought it'd be a good idea to do something ...
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