This is it. Tomorrow, we play the final match of the group stages. We know what’s at stake here- beat Cameroon, and we avoid Brazil for one more round.

Italy have been dealt a blow. The only overage player brought to the tourney by Casiraghi, Tommaso Rocchi, has been ruled out for the remainder of the Olympics.

This. This is what we’re up against.
Honduras is done and dusted. We beat them, and although it wasn’t a classic Azzurri performance it was a dominant one. Three points are in the bag and now we’re off to face Korea on Sunday.
But really, how much do you know about Korea? Cause I’m kinda sitting [...]

Italy 3- Honduras 0

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Video highlights here.
Now I’m not going to lie to you guys. I didn’t watch the game live. I would’ve loved to, but there’s no way I could get up at the crack of dawn and not fall asleep during the match.

Due to popular demand, me wanting to do this, and because this should’ve been done like a week ago, I’m finally going to post a brief overview of all the players going to the Olympics. I’ll have a rundown of each player, what team they play for, stregths/weaknesses, etc. When will this happen? Right now. [...]

The Azzurri Olympic squad played their final pre-Olympic friendly today, against Beijing Hong Deng. And they wrecked them 4-0. Now I know what you’re thinking. It’s a friendly, and we all know friendlies don’t really count. And yeah, Hong Deng isn’t, say, Barca or Chelsea-so this result may not seem thaaaat great. So you probably [...]

This is a bit of a shocker. According to goal.com (A warning: knowing this site, this story could’ve been made up entirely), Lippi may use Cassano as his first choice striker during WC 2010 qualifying and beyond. Now, as Italian soccer fans, you may be sitting there thinking “This Julian guy’s nuts. How is this [...]

A lot of stuff seems to be going on in the soccer world. Trades, little friendly tourneys(see below for more on that), injuries… yet nothing seems to be happening with national teams. Or at least, not with Italy.
So I didn’t post yesterday because, well, there was nothing to post about. And today, it’s basically the [...]

I’m back from vacation, which ended waaay too soon for me. But I’m back, rested and ready to go. It seems I missed a crapload of news club-wise (Roma were this close to getting Mutu but Fiorentina pulled out in the last second?!?) but there doesn’t seem to have been any huge national team news. [...]

I’m back from vacation. I know you guys missed me but regular posts will begin again from tomorrow on.
But damn you guys were busy when I was gone. Over 200 comments for the last entry? Good job keeping the discussion flowing.