European Under-21 tournament round-up - An Azzurrini diary
Between June 15 and June 29, the UEFA European Under-21 Championships took place in Sweden. Historically it has been a competition that has acted as a springboard for the superstars of tomorrow. Pierluigi Casiraghi took an experienced group of players to the finals with hopes of bringing the trophy back to the peninsula for an unprecedented sixth time. The Azzurrini were placed in a group conta... More
Azzurri World Cup coverage preview
The Confederations Cup is over and after some amazing football played out to the vuvuzela soundtrack, South Africa 2010 cannot come fast enough. Except that is, for Marcello Lippi and his Italy squad after a desperate showing that saw them drop out of the tournament with some dismal displays. Football Italiano was there following the entire event and we hope you enjoyed our coverage of... More
Lessons in Calcio - Fabio Cannavaro
Continuing Football Italiano's build-up to the World Cup next summer, Lessons in Calcio goes Azzurro for 2009/10. Throughout the season we will endeavor to bring you lessons on some of the greatest players to have played in Serie A and for the Italian national team. Kicking things off, we have current captain and legend, Fabio Cannavaro.
An English myth states... More
Confederations Cup round-up part one - Group stages
Italy qualified for the Confederations Cup as World Cup holders. Thrown into the ‘harder’ group, Italy were amongst favourites Brazil, a burgeoning Egypt and a physically strong United States outfit. Meanwhile Euro 2008 winners Spain, found themselves in a group comprised of a team who have not qualified for next year’s World Cup – Asian champions Iraq, South Africa, who only qualified as the... More
Confederations Cup round-up part two - Knockout stages
With the Azzurri now out of the tournament embarrassingly after defeats against Egypt and Brazil in the group stages, all the signs pointed towards a Brazil-Spain final. But as the old saying goes ‘football is funny old game.’
Semi-finals
Nobody predicted that the Americans could possibly pull off another upset to oust the favourites but an impressive showin... More
Confederations Cup action round-up - Brazil crowned champions in exciting finale
3rd Place Playoff
June 28, 2009
Spain 3-2 South Africa
Following their shock semi-final exit to the United States, Spain surprisingly made just four changes to the starting XI, with Carles Puyol, Xavi, Sergio Ramos and Cesc Fabregas making way for Alvaro Arbeloa, Raul Albiol, Santi Cazorla and Sergio Busquets. For the second time in the compe... More
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