Football Headlines From Italy

by Kevin Walker on September 5, 2008 · 0 comments

today’s la Gazzetta dello Sport front page (090508)La Gazzetta dello Sport

Balotelli: A true Ital­ian - makes his Azzurri debut this evening against Greece (il grande momento)
Pres­i­dent Berlus­coni speaks out on vio­lence (by defend­ing Napoli?): Napoli shouldn’t pay
Zam­par­ini, 27 sack­ings — From Palermo, Out goes Colan­tuono, in comes Ballardini

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Balotelli was born in Palermo and is the son of Ghana­ian immi­grants. He is con­sid­ered one of the games most promis­ing youngsters.

Due to Balotelli’s legal prob­lems, he could not answer a num­ber of call-ups received by Ital­ian national U15 and U17 teams, as he was still con­sid­ered a Ghana­ian immigrant.

todays Tuttosport front page (09.05.08)
Tuttosport

Nedved: would give infi­nitely all for the Cham­pi­ons (mean­ing to be a Cham­pi­ons League win­ner)
€70 mil­lion for Buf­fon — Arab investor goes mad for Buf­fon, fans say no
Del Piero is a pos­si­ble show for Cyprus v. Italy
(Roberto) Mancini to go to Eng­land?
Palermo change Coach here is Ballardini

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I believe the Arab investor is ref­er­ence to the new own­er­ship of Man­ches­ter City in the Eng­lish Pre­mier League.

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