2010 World Cup Italy Football Blog

The shambolic and catastrophic demise of italy in this years confederations cup is confirmation of many things. They are relying on older players, they are scared of youth and they cannot play the same defensive way as they have.
Italy has a great footballing history, they are giants of the game, and along with Brazil are [...]

 
  The mood in the famous town of Pisa, western Italy, has been grim for the last week, its citizens in a state of despair after their football team, Pisa Calcio, was relegated to play regional football next season in Italy’s Serie C1, after losing their final home game of the season to Brescia last Saturday. The fiery [...]

  June will see the return to competitive football for the national sides of Europe. With most seasons at club level now finished, international players and coaches are for the most part preparing to continue their World Cup qualifying campaigns, in the hope of confirming their place as one of the 32 nations in South [...]

  Italy’s qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has to date been a successful and straightforward one. Drawn in the relatively weak Group Eight, with the Republic of Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Montenegro and Georgia, the Azzurri are unbeaten to date, having won four and drawn two of their six matches, currently [...]

  Normally writing about Stoke City, as part of blogsfc.com’s Football Journalism Challenge, which is linked to at the bottom of this article, I’ve been allocated to write articles on the Italian national football team. The first article for the challenge is to be on Italy’s qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, [...]

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. [...]