2008 is drawing to a close, and it was a hell of the year for the Azzurri. 12 months ago we were looking forward to the Euros and to being crowned European, as well as World, Champions. Luca Toni was on fire in the Bundesliga and in the national team, and we finished top of [...]

Yeah, I can’t believe it either.

(Yay for crappy puns based off of crappy movies)

Yeah, I’m as pumped to see him back at the helm as you are. A competent Italian national team coach? Feels like 2006 all over again
When Lippi finally gets in gear and picks his squad for the next game (which I think is a late August friendly), [...]

Ok, Ok, don’t castrate me. After Nesta and Totti comes Balotelli. No shows isn’t about crazy talented players of azzurri past (get ready for some Baggio action), it’s about who’s not going to Euro 2008 and Mario isn’t going. Super Mario Balotelli is a force to be reckon with. At 17 years of age [...]

Apparently Phil Collins was wrong, you CAN turn back the years, because Alessandro Del Piero and Pippo Inzaghi have both been doing it towards the close of this season with goal totals bringing great worry about the quality of defense in the peninsula. Somewhere pigs are flying, hell is frozen, Raymond Domenech is saying something [...]

There’s nothing I need to say about Totti. But little people know that Stephen Hawking and Francesco Totti are long lost cosmically connected twin brothers. In some sort of twisted demented way, Francesco Totti’s body works in the same way Stephen Hawking’s brain does! Alas, it works the other way around as well.
Although non-Romanista, Azzurri [...]

Roman born Alessandro Nesta has been one of the worlds best, if not the best, central defenders for the past 10 years or so. But his various injury woes have seen him back away from his International duties.
Unfortunately for Roberto Donadoni’s Azzurri squad he won’t be able to select the big Milan defender [...]