Nicola Legrottaglie

Rossi Named to Italian National Team

by Robert on May 11, 2010 · 1 comment

Mar­cello Lippi announced the pro­vi­sional Ital­ian national team ros­ter today on the FIGC web­site (offi­cial web­site notice here, Goal.com Eng­lish sum­mary here).  Few con­tro­ver­sies were expected, as the Ital­ian squad won the last World Cup and looked to return most of that ros­ter.  There were how­ever a few items of note: AS Roma stars Francesco Totti […]

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ONE YEAR TO GO: Will World Champs or World Chumps be flying to South Africa?">ONE YEAR TO GO: Will World Champs or World Chumps be flying to South Africa?

by Kris Voakes on July 11, 2009 · 2 comments

To fans of Cal­cio it’s still as vivid as ever: The vision of Fabio Can­navaro lift­ing the World Cup aloft remains the proud­est of Ital­ian mem­o­ries in a dif­fi­cult recent his­tory. But with one year to go before the 19th World Cup Final, Can­navaro and his Azzurri have a lot of hard work to do […]

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