Articles tagged with "marcello-lippi"
Posted on: Ireland World Cup Team Blog by Eugene | Oct 11th, 2009
...it's still hurting quite a lot today.
First things first, highlights. There's a few on my jingoistic piece last night, but to round it off, ...
Posted on: Ireland World Cup Team Blog by Eugene | Oct 9th, 2009
...I would apologise for not putting anything up recently, but any complaints should be directed towards the University of Sussex, Mark Mazower and Eric Hobsbawn. ...
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 | 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 8th, 2009
In a lot of ways, this is the most important game remaining in our qualifying campaign. To see what I mean, look at the current ...
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: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Sep 5th, 2009
It's starting to become a familiar story. We play a team in a WCQ that we should easily beat. We stumble/luck our way to a ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 16th, 2009
First and most importantly, Cannavaro looks to be back. No he's not the same player he used to be. Yes, he is slow. Yes, we're ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 14th, 2009
Let's get things out of the way. Spain is obviously a heavy favorite for the trophy. If they weren't before, after seeing them today, they ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 7th, 2009
The friendly between Italy and North Ireland was very impressive. Very impressive indeed. I saw something that I hadn't seen for 3 years- a truly ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 5th, 2009
Lotsa things filled up recently: squads, coaches, my glass of chocolate milk. Let's discuss them!
Confed Cup Squad:
Goalkeepers: Marco Amelia (Palermo), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | May 28th, 2009
Lippicakes was very busy today, and released not one but two lists of call ups. The first is for the players to participate in a ...
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 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 | 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 7th, 2009
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Marco Amelia (Palermo), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: Daniele Bonera (Milan), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Andrea Dossena (Liverpool), Alessandro Gamberini (Fiorentina), Fabio ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 28th, 2009
Goal.com are launching a bid to have Maldini called up for the friendly against Brazil. Now, the chances of this actually happening are smaller than ...
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 20th, 2009
I'm going all out in my preview for the upcoming friendly against Brazil. "But Julian," you cry, "it's just a friendly." We'll you're wrong. It's ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Nov 20th, 2008
Not a friendly that's gonna go down in the record books- hell, I wouldn't advise you to watch it unless you need a good nap. ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Sep 8th, 2008
The return of Marcello Lippi could hardly be going any worse. After the draw against Austria - and by draw I mean loss - where ...
