Italy 3- Honduras 0

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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.

So tomorrow we finally get to see some Italy action again. The game takes place at 10 AM and I’m not sure what channels it’s on.

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. [...]

Yeah, I can’t believe it either.

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 [...]

For the preliminary rounds, that is. Now we know who Juventus and Fiorentina have to beat in order to get to the group stages.

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 [...]

So the next time we see the Azzurri in action (albeit, a very young version of the Azzurri. Except for Rocchi, who looks about 47) will be during the Olympics. The soccer event begins on August 7th, with Italy taking on Honduras. And maybe, just maybe, Italy can buck a recent trend and take home [...]

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. [...]