Times Like These Are the Worst

July 18th, 2010 | by: Julian |

The World Cup just ended and we have friendlies and Euro qualifying soon… but almost nothing in the meantime. The players are all on vacation, getting ready for preseason training soon with their clubs, and Prandelli is thinking and thinking about what players to use. But for now, gli azzurri are on a break.

Luckily, the U-19 team is playing today. More information about our team and the competition is here. It should be a good game- their opponent is Portugal, who’s usually no pushover on the international level. In fact, Italy only have one trophy on the U19 level, and it came in 2003 after beating Portugal in the final. I can’t seem to find a link anywhere online, but if someone can, please post it in the comments and I’ll edit it into this post.

Our first friendly is on August 10th I believe, so we still have 3 weeks of no azzurri action.

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Gabry

They lost 2-0 the U19’s
Italia2006

^ so what’s new?
LUIGI giginno

so is the friendly on the 10th august v ivory coast def going ahead? Originaly the venue should of been craven cottage fulham london – then the federation who can’t organise anything changed plans! Any news on this would be great as I live close to london and would be great to see a new looking azzurri team even if out of season.
mikederob

the under 19s is a bit hard to watch online unfortunately. our game v spain will be televised and should be easy to watch online, but the next game, which is with croatia won’t be…although you may still be able to find it somewhere. However, a 2-0 loss against portugal isn’t a great start by any means!
Just hoping we get to cheer on an italian team sometime soon!
Mas

We did finish the game with 9 men – 1 out for injury, 1 out for a red card…
mikederob

1 out for injury? wouldn’t he get subbed?
http://juventus.theoffside.com agiamba

Not if we used all our subs.
Bense

Italy has a piss-easy group C, so there should be no worries to qualify, either.
zen

yeah. they had a piss-easy group in the WC 2010 too. That didn’t turn out quite well now, did it?
Gigi

0-0 at the moment with croatia .. 15 mins left italy down to 10 men … squad has no fucking discipline. Pathetic.