Italy needs to buck up to remain in competition in seria A

By Aditi | March 5, 2011 7:51 am |

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1595364_w2 The fourth place in the UEFA Champions League serie A is under great threat with Bundesliga coming very close. Now, for Italy to remain in the competition needs its three representatives to play well and win in the round of 16.

If the three teams including AC Milan, AS Roma and FC Internazionale Milano couldn’t manage to remain in the round of 16, they will have to display some exceptional game to remain in competition.

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Former champion Italy out of World Cup 2010

By Aditi | June 27, 2010 11:59 am |

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Defending champions and one of the sides that was highly likely to win this year’s World Cup, has crashed out the tournament. Italy was shown the door by Slovakia, who displayed tremendous composure and skills to beat the defending champions. The Slovakians, who were younger, faster and more determined deserved to win and they did, that too in style. Although Italy did find its touch during the last stages of the game and came pretty close to drawing level with Slovakia, it wasn’t good enough.

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Italy beat Sweden in Cesena

By Aditi | November 30, 2009 9:14 pm |

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In an international friendly played at Cesena, a second string Italy side beat Sweden 1-0, with the help of the only goal scored by the centre-back Giorgio Chiellini. The world champions found it very hard to impose themselves on their disciplined opponents, who were also playing without their star player Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Sweden having already been ousted from World Cup qualification failed to make any impressions and seemed very unlikely to make a come back as a side that had glorious 1990s.

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Spain Passes on Penalties

By Jason | June 23, 2008 7:14 am |

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Euro 2008

Today two giants, Spain and Italy, clashed to see who would win. At the end of regulation and extra time, niether could muster the strength to score a single goal on the other.

Spain and Italy: If a game had to be decided between two powers like these two, I would pick the penalty shoot out. Why? For many reasons:

I would rather see two good team play longer than 90 minutes. Who really has the endurance to last that long. Who will fight till the end or just give up.
While it is one of the sadest and gives a player the feeling of helplessness, it is one of the fairest. Both teams have an equal chance. Both have equal numbers of shots on goal.

Next Up: The first semi-final game is between Germany and Turkey which should be very interesting. I will like to see the turntout of this game.

Surprise, Surprise Its Russia Advancing

By Jason | June 22, 2008 7:55 am |

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Euro 2008,Rumors

Totally unbelievable. A team that dominated its group competition in the group of death falls to Russia. My money was on Holland but it is not so. Igor Akinfeev played a good game only giving up one goal to the offensive happy Dutch who scored 4 goals on both Italy and France. Russia truly pulled off an upset and a miracle on the pitch today, which should be both applauded and mourned for. Applauded that the youngest team in the tournament beat the favorite team for the match. Mourning Dutch fans because they were so sure.

Future: Tomorrow Italy plays Spain to decide who will play Russia. Now this will be the game of the quarters. I liked watching Germany and Portugal but I will enjoy watching Spain and Italy do battle. Maybe it is because two of my favorite teams-Barcelona and AC Milan-are Spanish and Italian teams, respectively.

Two Quick Hits:

Barcelona and AC Milan are both vying for the services’ of the Arsenal striker, Adebayor. An AC Milan scout believes his team has a 50% chance of acquiring the striker.
Former Sunderland keeper Tim Carter has been found dead in a park with a rope tied around his neck. Authorities do not believe that there is any foul play involved and his death is unfortunately classified as a suicide.

Let the Quarters Begin

By Jason | June 20, 2008 7:57 am |

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Euro 2008,Transfer Central

Today, the Euro 2008 Quarter-Finals have started.

Germany beat Portugal today. While the Portugese side did very well in taking the champions title for their group, Germany snapped up their hopes for 08. The game got very exciting in the last minutes as Portugal scored a goal to make the final score 3-2.

Future Fixtures:

Tomorrow- Croatia vs. Turkey: I like this game. The heroics of Turkey in their win against Petr Cech and the Czech Republic proved to the world that they are here to play. However, they did trail in that game which is a weakness. At the same time, Croatia did win all of their group games defeating Germany in the process. Once again, I like this game.

Saturday- Holland vs. Russia: In short, miracles may happen, but Holland hasn’t shown very many weaknesses. I like the competition and level of play Igor Akinfeev will be up against but I don’t like his chances. The power of the Oranje will prove to be too much for Russia on this day.

Sunday- Spain vs. Italy: This will be another good game. Power vs. Power. Class vs. Class. What better game than this that pits two top class keepers against one another(Casillas v. Buffon). The defensive corps each possess. The midfield so chalked full of talent. And the strikers to finish. This is truly the game that I will watch.

Transfer Rumors:

Barcelona put out an opening bid on David Trezeguet.

Holland and Italy To Move On

By Jason | June 18, 2008 1:06 am |

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Group C closed today and it is Holland and Italy. The two World Cup finalists will not move on hand and hand this time as the power of Holland was too much for both teams.

Italy: defeated France 2-0 today as they will be moving on as the runners up from Group C. They will be facing Spain in the knockout round-Quarter Final. This will be a good match.

Holland: ended the hopes of Romania as they are the true spoilers of Group C, first with a tie against France, then with the same result against Italy. I have a new found respect for the whole lineup aside from the afore posted Chivu and Mutu. Holland will face either Sweden or Russia who go head to head tomorrow to round off the Group D.

What’s ahead: Tomorrow Spain will take on Greece who are set to finish in last place of Group D if they do not pull off a win tomorrow against first place Spain. Spain will finish in first tomorrow even if they lose. They have defeated both Russia and Sweden making it impossible for them to lose the top spot by points.

Russia or Sweden: Based on previous games, Sweden has the advantage over Russia. Sweden only lost 2-1 as Russia lost 4-1. However, the amount of goals scored does not really give any team the edge. Russian Goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev is a guy that I really like, however he and his squad are still relatively young. They will be together for many Euros and World Cups to come. I will watch this game to just see a good match and I leave no prediction for tomorrow.

Germany Passes, Croatia Undefeated

By Jason | June 17, 2008 3:15 am |

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I’m right! I’m right! While my predictions are not solid for Group B, I still predicted that Germany and Croatia would pass. Now they are passing, however in a different fashion. Portugal will now play Germany and Croatia gets to play Turkey. Both will be very good games and should not be the least bit one-sided. Two powers will square off-Germany and Portugal.

Tomorrow the Big Game!

Italy versus France will be one of the biggest games for this group stage. Romania will try and halt the Holland stampede that took down both France and Italy. If Romania wins, they will pass as the runners-up with Holland shocking the entire European Cup faithful.

Euro Shockers

By Jason | June 10, 2008 12:51 am |

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Euro 2008

Wow, I did not see this coming! Today, Netherlands beat Italy 3-0 and Romania tied France 0-0.

Netherlands vs. Italy(3-0)

This is a complete shocker to me. Not that I don’t respect the Netherlands’ side, as they have a lot of talent, I just thought that Italy would win. This changes things and may even make my predictions look stupid. However, we are only one game in, nothing to worry. Maybe losing their team captain has made things uneasy.

Romania vs. France(0-0)

I really didn’t see this coming. Romania did not win however, this should be taken as a loss for France and their supporters. This should not have happened. When everyone says that this group is the “group of death” they did not mean that Romania would be a killer. As a matter of fact, they were written off–completely.

My predictions for the death group:

Italy versus France will be a nice game to watch as both teams will be putting everything they have into it. They need to to make a rebound however only one will.
Romania will be playing the Netherlands on their next game…they will lose. Then they will move on to an already mad Italian team…they will lose.
Netherlands: My prediction was wrong and they will pass. They will win against Romania which will put them with 6 points. Now that this has occurred, I’m thinking that they will take Group C Champion honors.

Coming Up:

Greece versus Sweden
Spain versus Russia

Quick Hits

Man U has reported Real and does not like them pursuing Ronaldo.
Man City has offered Ronaldinho 200,000 pounds a week…roughly $400,000. That’s a lot of 0′s.

Italy needs to buck up to remain in competition in seria A

Former champion Italy out of World Cup 2010

Italy beat Sweden in Cesena

Spain Passes on Penalties

Surprise, Surprise Its Russia Advancing

Let the Quarters Begin

Euro Shockers

Manchester United knocked out of FA Cup

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