Italy's National Team Fan's Thread

[Neoxter]

Originally Posted by Kingroudy

if u've seen games that date to the 1930, it's like watching a second division game.

yes but everything is relative, Italy was stronger than the rest and won the world cups, playing the same football.

If you take the world's best programmer and compare him to programmers now, you'll find that the n00b now is way experienced and better than the old programmer at his age and beats him in a second, the same for football and most of the things.

[Confucius]

World Cup 2010: Italy Coach Marcello Lippi Will Not Call Up Roma's Francesco Totti

Reports claim Totti will be snubbed.





By Salvatore Landolina
May 7, 2010 7:05:00 AM

Roma World Cup hopeful Francesco Totti is set to miss out on Italy's South Africa adventure as Marcello Lippi has already decided he will snub him, according to Il Messaggero.

Totti has come under heavy scrutiny this week after lashing out at Inter striker Mario Balotelli in Wednesday's Coppa Italia final.

The Lupi man kicked out at Balotelli to earn a red card, and later claimed he was provoked by the youngster, who hit back in saying Totti made racial remarks.

Lippi was at the Stadio Olimpico and witnessed the controversy unfold first hand.

But this is not the reason why he will leave Totti behind. Lippi has made the decision based on technical choices, feeling he doesn't need him. And it is said Totti already knows he will not be going.

'Er Pupone' had talked of his availability to come out of the international wilderness after leaving the Azzurri in 2006. And although Lippi said everyone would know Totti's fate on May 11 when he picks his preliminary Italy squad, his list is likely to have a cross by his name.

Meanwhile, president of the Italian republic Giorgio Napolitano has condemned Totti's kick.

The head of state told La Repubblica: "Clubs need to do more about curbing violence in football, and Totti's actions fall into that category, what he did was rash."


Source: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/67/wo...call-up-romas-

[Choukou]

Italy winning the World Cup?? LOL! We will see about that!

la b2a7lamak la b2awhamak :P

[TAREK®]

Originally Posted by Choukou

Italy winning the World Cup?? LOL! We will see about that!

la b2a7lamak la b2awhamak :P

yeah yeah talk talk we'll see Italy is the team of surprises

[Kingroudy]

Tarek, Inta ma3 min?

[TAREK®]

Originally Posted by Kingroudy

Tarek, Inta ma3 min?

Italy

[Confucius]

World Cup 2010: Good Thing Italy Are Not Favourites - Fabio Cannavaro

Cannavaro says starting as favourites is not always a good thing...



By Salvatore Landolina
May 13, 2010 10:26:00 AM

Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro believes starting the World Cup as underdogs is a good thing as he takes inspiration from 2006.

Cannavaro is gearing himself up for the start of another month of hard work as he plots Italy's route in South Africa. And, while a number of nations have predicted a quick downfall for the Azzurri, the captain is keeping it steady.

"Right, it's right like this. It's best not to start the tournament as favourites," Cannavaro told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"Us Italians are the masters of starting negatively in general, but this is not right because we qualified for the tournament early, but we are always criticised.

"It's just like in 2006. We played friendlies against Germany and Holland which we won, but no one had us as favourites.

"Football is nice because of this. No one believed in it in 2006, but then everyone jumped on the bangwagon when we won."


Source: http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/wor...medium=twitter

[Sony]

i supported italy last 2 world cups...

2002 we lost by mistake and bad judgment

2006 i supported both of italy and portugal-> italy won

2010 i'm not italian anymore i'm just sticking with portugal !!

if italy won this year i consider myself winning

[TAREK®]

حراس المرمى: جيانلويجي بوفون -مورجان دي سانتيس-فيديريكو ماركيتي


خط الدفاع: سلفاتوري بوكيتي-ليوناردو بونوتشي-فابيو كانافارو-جورجيو كيليني-دومينيكو كريشيتو-كريستيان ماجيو-جيانلوكا زامبروتا.


خط الوسط: ماورو كامورانيزي-دانييلي دي روسي-جينارو غاتوسو-كلاوديو ماركيزيو-ريكاردو مونتيليفو-أنجيلو بالومبو-سيموني بيبي-أندريا بيرلو.

خط الهجوم: أنتونيو دي ناتالي-ألبيرتو جيلاردينو-فينشنزو ياكونتا-جيامباولو باتزيني-فابيو كوالياريلا

[H@SSàN]

كانافارو: إيطاليا مثيرة للسخرية

أبدى فابيو كانافارو قائد المنتخب الإيطالي استغرابه من هجوم الإعلام الإيطالي على زميله في نادي يوفنتوس والمنتخب كلاوديو ماركيزيو مطالبين الأخير بالرحيل عن الآتزوري.

وكان ماركيزيو قد هوجم بضراوة أمس من قبل الإعلام والصحافة بسبب غنائه للنشيد الوطني الإيطالي قبل بداية مباراة الآتزوري أمام سويسرا بطريقة خاطئة في وقت كانت كاميرا النقل التلفزيوني مباشرة أمامه، قائلا: "روما لادرونا" وتعني "روما السارقة" بدلا من ترديد الكلمات الصحيحة.

وكان بجانبه بعض اللاعبين الذين ضحكوا عندما سمعوا طريقه غناء ماركيزيو للنشيد الوطني ومنهم كانافارو الذي علق على هذا الموضوع لوكالة "ناسا" الإيطالية قائلا: "ما حصل ببساطة أن توقيتنا كان سيئا".

وأضاف قائد المنتخب الإيطالي: "كلنا قد نخطئ في هذا الشأن مع غناء الجماهير للنشيد وصوت الفرقة الموسيقية وهذا الصخب. ولهذا السبب فقط ضحك جميع من سمعوا ماركيزيو.. أستطيع أن أقول إن إيطاليا مثيرة للسخرية".

كما علق كانافارو المنتقل حديثا للنادي الأهلي الإماراتي على موضوع مكافآت المنتخب والتي رفضها الوزير الإيطالي روبيرتو كالديرولي بسبب الأزمة الإقتصادية العالمية، قائلا: "لا تعليق.. لكني سأعيد عليكم.. إيطاليا مثيرة للسخرية فعلا".

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