Francesco Totti

Prandelli Interested In Totti Alongside Balotelli

by Niccolo Conte on September 29, 2010 · 5 comments

Cesare Pran­delli has revi­tal­ized the Azzurri. He won the first two qual­i­fiers of the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships of 2012, and he looks ready to win even more. While Italy only faced Esto­nia and the Faroe Islands, the two wins were impor­tant nonethe­less. And now, as Pran­delli looks to call up another set of Ital­ians to face […]

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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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The most antic­i­pated match-up of the week­end is the AS Roma-AC Milan con­test to decide which club can chal­lenge Inter for the top spot in Serie A.  While the loser still has an out­side shot at the scud­etto, an Inter vic­tory over Genoa would make it a tough task. Rather than a tra­di­tional post rehash­ing strengths […]

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Lessons Learned from Giornata 20

by Robert on January 20, 2010 · 0 comments

After this weekend’s action, the eyes of Italy will be on its largest met­ro­pol­i­tan city.  The Milan derby could move AC Milan within strik­ing dis­tance of first or could help Inter Milan put some dis­tance between itself and its rival.  And the two clubs are approach­ing this game from oppo­site direc­tions: Inter strik­ing some luck […]

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Lessons Learned from Giornata 13

by Robert on November 24, 2009 · 2 comments

Totti was a star in the 3–1 win over Bari For Ital­ian soc­cer fans, the inter­na­tional break was excru­ci­at­ing.  The national team had two friend­lies (which Arse­nal fans would not con­sider too friendly) and watched to see who else would qual­ify from Europe.  Thank­fully, the action from this week­end was excit­ing enough to make up for […]

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Juventus, Roma Suffer Major Injuries

by Robert on October 27, 2009 · 0 comments

UPDATE — Goal.com is report­ing that Felipe Melo will also be out for this weekend’s match against Sam­p­do­ria. Two large Ital­ian clubs received huge injury news today as they sought to climb up the Serie A table. Juven­tus star and striker Vin­cent Iaquinta revealed today that he has a torn menis­cus and will have surgery on […]

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What Next For Roma?

by Kevin Walker on November 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Roma given a byweek with the sus­pended match against Sam­p­do­ria, didn’t help the least as Juven­tus handed the Gial­lorossi a 0 — 2 loss yes­ter­day. All focus now is on Cham­pi­ons League suc­cess for the cap­i­tal side as their scud­etto run is done and dusted.  The club sits 17th on 7 points, one point above the rel­e­ga­tion zone and Francesco […]

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