Last year in Serie A, one centerback pairing took the league by storm. Two young, Italian defenders playing on loan for a newly promoted team somehow managed to form one of the best lines in Serie A, and until one of them was injured, it seemed certain that both would go to the World Cup. [...]

It’s time for the next edition of Crappy Lookalikes, almost a year to the day after the last edition. Here are this round’s uncanny eerily similar kinda-sorta resemblances:

It’s a bad day for Milan fans and those of us hoping that Alessandro Nesta could return for gli Azzurri. Milan have confirmed that Nesta will undergo surgery on March 15 to repair a torn tendon in his right knee and needs 2 months to recover. This effectively rules him out of the rest of [...]

To take everyone’s mind off the disaster that Italian clubs are currently undergoing in Europe (with the exception of Juve and, hopefully, Inter) now might be a good time to look ahead to this summer. That’s right- to turn your attention away from a current crisis, I point towards a future one (I keed!). In [...]

I’m gonna keep this one short due to time constraints, but two people/groups deserve to be applauded tonight.

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While the never ending debate about who our strikers should be continues, lets focus on something a bit easier to determine: the defense. Buffon is a given in goal, but who should play in front of him? Nesta probably won’t return to the fold, leaving a possible disaster waiting to happen in the back. Here [...]

To quote my favorite TV show character, Michael Bluth: “Is there a carbon monoxide leak in this house?” I’ve never seen so many downbeat comments after what was a rather decent result. The friendly against Cameroon was not an exposition of beautiful attacking prowess by any means. Nevertheless, there’s a lot to take from this [...]

I didn’t get to see most of the Italy-Cameroon game live yesterday. I was on my way to New York City instead (I’m a New Jersey native, home from college on spring break). PUMA was having their official unveiling of the Azzurri’s new World cup jerseys, and when Daryl passed along the invite, I couldn’t [...]

Edit: Line ups:
Italy: Marchetti; Bonucci, Cannavaro, Chiellini; Maggio, De Rossi, Pirlo, Criscito; Cossu, Borriello, Di Natale
Cameroon: Kameni; Matip, Nkolou, Bassong, Assou-Ekoto; Mbia, Makoun, A Song; Emana, Eto’o; Idrissou
Ref: Bergonzi
Looks like Lippi is going to try the rumored 3-4-3. It sounds crazy but given Criscito and Maggio’s defensive and running abilities, it just might work. Plus that [...]