Euro 2008 Italy Football Blog

Gianluigi Buffon still managed to pick up a place in UEFA’s Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament eventhough Italy were knocked out during the quarter-finals. Group Rival Edwin Van Der Sar who had a good tournament and Penalty Stopper Iker Casillas were the other two keepers to pick up a best goalkeeper place. I was […]

Toni had no chance to celebrate during the Euro 2008
Roberto Donadoni’s exit was affected by Toni’s failure to hit one goal, claimed the Bayern Munich Top Scorer. Toni failed to hit even one goal during the four games Italy played in Euro 2008 and a couple of sitters against France should have surely saved […]

Hopeful Donadoni Won’t Take a Euro From Italian FA

Italian Fa President Giancarlo Abete and Roberto Donadoni are expected to part ways in the coming days. Donadoni led Italy to the Quarter-Final phase against Spain where the Azzurri ultimately bowed out on penalties. Reports were already evidently saying that if Italy were to be knocked out […]

The Penalty-Shootout where Spain won 4-2.

Buffon had just saved a penalty then Di Natale could not do anything worse than failing to score his
0-0 for 120 minutes meant the quarter-final between Italy and Spain would be decided on penalties. After seeing Turkey beat Croatia in the first-penalty shoot-out in Euro 2008, things got exciting in Wien. Yet not for Italy. […]

Italy and Spain could not break the deadlock and the match has gone to penalties…Both teams had good chances and eventhough Spain dominated parts of the match, which was well predicted, the Italians did not give up and a great defence meant Italy held strong.
Grosso, Del Piero, De Rossi will definitely take a penalty together […]

 Italy 0-0 Spain: Spaniards Irritated by Fandel

Spain and Italy are entertaining the crowd in a 0-0 half-time draw. Spain have been the dominant side in this first half having had a penalty appeal for a foul on Silva turned down by referee Fandel. A foul by Grosso just out of the penalty area was again […]

The much awaited match between Italy and Spain will be off to a start in about 15 minutes. Here are the players that will be the XI men that Spain and Italy will battle with. Can Spain repeat the win they obtained in the friendly they played against Italy in less than three months? Having […]

Pictures from Austria showing good mood from both sets of fans and that’s what football needs. Let’s hope everything continues calmly before and after tonight’s match.

Italy and Spain will play out each other in the last Quarter-Final of Euro 2008. They travel to Wien which will host the much awaited game.

Having a capacity of 50,000, Ernst Happel Stadium, Wien has already hosted Austria vs Croatia, Austria vs Poland and Austria vs Germany together with the second quarter-final which turned out […]