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Serie A Preview — The Resurrection of Juventus

by Robert on August 18, 2010 · 6 comments

Men­tion the 2009–2010 sea­son to Juven­tus’ 170 mil­lion fans and they will shake their head in dis­gust.  Italy’s most suc­cess­ful and beloved soc­cer team was a shell of itself, miss­ing out on a Euro­pean tour­na­ment spot due to poor play and aging play­ers.  It is not a coin­ci­dence that the Ital­ian national team also failed […]

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South Africa 2010 Analysis: Reasons behind Italy’s Struggles

by Rami Soufi on June 21, 2010 · 10 comments

Italy man­aged to draw 1–1 against both Paraguay and New Zealand while fail­ing to impress despite hav­ing seen a lot in terms of ball pos­ses­sion, in par­tic­u­lar against the Kiwis when the Ital­ians had just over 70% in terms of ball pos­ses­sion. Pun­dits and fans alike are debat­ing what has gone wrong for the Azzurri […]

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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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