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Roberto Mancini is currently clubless after leaving Inter Milan, but he has been linked with a number of teams around Europe - including Real Madrid.
The Spanish giants have been struggling recently and Iberian paper AS had reported that the Italian was the number one candidate for the job if Bernd Schuster was kicked out by unforgiving president Ramon Calderon.
However, Mancio’s representative Maurizio De Giorgis has denied the reports - but revealed that Mancini wouldn’t mind the Real post should it become available.
“We are pleased with this news regarding the reported interest from Real, it’s news for us too but there is nothing official,” De Giorgis told Goal.com.
“They are just unfounded rumours as Real Madrid have not been in touch with us regarding Mancini.
“There is nothing official.
“I hope it’s not all unfounded news though, but like I said, the Spanish club have not made contact.
“QPR? Absolutely not. We have maximum respect for QPR but I don’t think Mancini would go there. If you compare Real Madrid with QPR…
“QPR have not been in touch, neither has Flavio Briatore.
“That is another rumour from the press who have nothing else to write about.
“The Golden Bench award? We are delighted. He deserves the award. He is a great coach and he has won many things and he deserves it.”
Mancini will be hoping Real come knocking on the door sooner rather than later.
The former Sampdoria man is looking for a way back into football and there will be no better way than to do it with one of the world’s biggest clubs.
via: goal.com
Written by Darkvader on November 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Today, word that current AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti wants to coach an African country at the 2010 World Cup.
The 48-year-old, who has participated in three World Cups, is keen on playing a role at the 2010 event to be held in South Africa.
Ancelotti is contracted to Milan until 2010 but insists he wants to be involved in the World Cup in two years’ time.
“I would like to coach an African national side at the 2010 World Cup,” Ancelotti said.
“I took part in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups as a player and in 1994 as assistant to (Arrigo) Sacchi and there is a fascinating atmosphere which I would like to experience again.
“Africa is producing talented players - players from that continent have great technical and physical resources.
“Maybe they are just lacking a bit of organization, but maybe I can arrive and put things right, no?”
Ancelotti led Milan to the Champions League in 2003 and 2007 and the Serie A title in 2004 after joining them in 2001 from Juventus.
As a player, he helped AC Milan win two Serie A titles and two European Cups, and he is one of only five men to have won the Champions League as both a player and a coach.
In 2007, he signed two-year contract extension to keep him at Milan until 2010.
MY POV: Very nice to read Ancelotti’s desire to coach an African side. I’m sure his experience and technical prowess would be welcomed by an African nation.
Any suggestions as to where he could go?
Written by Darkvader on October 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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MILAN, Italy (AP) - Italy coach Marcello Lippi left Alessandro Del Piero off the squad for the team’s next two World Cup qualifying games and called up four players for their international debuts Sunday.
Del Piero had gotten the call for Italy’s first two qualifiers last month against Cyprus and Georgia but saw little playing time. The striker has scored one goal in six games this season for Juventus.
The four players making their debut are Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi, Udinese forward Simone Pepe, Napoli defender Fabiano Santacroce and Napoli midfielder Christian Maggio.
Italy plays Bulgaria on Saturday in Sofia and Montenegro in Lecce four days later.
Lippi got wins in his first two World Cup qualifying games after returning as coach. Italy leads its group with six points.
Injuries kept Lippi from calling up defenders Nicola Legrottaglie, Marco Materazzi, Marco Cassetti and Fabio Grosso, as well as midfielder Andrea Pirlo and strikers Vincenzo Iaquinta and Marco Borriello.
Goalkeepers: Marco Amelia (Palermo), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: Daniele Bonera (AC Milan), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Andrea Dossena (Liverpool), Alessandro Gamberini (Fiorentina), Fabiano Santacroce (Napoli), Gianluca Zambrotta (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Alberto Aquilani (AS Roma), Mauro Camoranesi (Juventus), Daniele De Rossi (AS Roma), Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan), Christian Maggio (Napoli), Riccardo Montolivo (Fiorentina), Antonio Nocerino (Palermo), Simone Perrotta (AS Roma)
Forwards: Antonio Di Natale (Udinese), Alberto Gilardino (Fiorentina), Simone Pepe (Udinese), Giuseppe Rossi (Villarreal), Luca Toni (Bayern Munich
Written by Darkvader on October 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Another Italian victory. They played a bit better, although they are still far from putting on a convincing performance. After the 2-1 in Cyprus comes a 2-0 against Georgia, already defeated by the same margin on 13 October 2007 in the Euro 2008 qualifiers in Genoa.
Back then, with goals from Pirlo and Grosso; this time around, with two goals from De Rossi. After Ireland’s draw, those two goals were enough to remain at the top of our group in the South Africa 2010 qualifiers.
INITIAL SPRINT - Italy had a strong start, perhaps eager to make up for their performance in Cyprus or maybe just eager to quickly secure the top of the group in another uncomfortable match where once again, they had a lot to lose and very little to win. They did not want to give a bad impression. Di Natale - Udine’s pride - finished Toni’s pass with a powerful shot that barely missed the net. The ball, slow and derisory, missed the goal caressing the post of Loria’s net. The goal was just around the corner and we would only need to wait a little bit longer for it; it was a super goal with De Rossi’s name on it. De Rossi’s left shot from outside the area was splendid. Italy took the lead; the Azzurri shook their nerves off and in just one minute came two backheels, courtesy of Pirlo and Aquilani. Italy seemed to be having fun on the pitch. Less than a half-hour into the match, the wave broke out in the stands.
Written by Darkvader on September 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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The White House press briefing book for the G-8 summit in Japan has offered a too-honest-for-comfort biography of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. The AC Milan owner/ Media Mogul/ Politician/ Convicted Perjurer is named as “one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice.”
As you might imagine, the prickly Italian press has taken exception to this passage, among others. The Bush people apologized promptly and have since gone about spearheading a wonderfully impotent new climate change bill.
In all, it’s been a good few weeks for the Prime Minister, first the Italian senate passed the “Berlusconi Bill” and now the shopboys (cheers bigus!) at Chelsea have reportedly offered 75 large for Kaka. If accepted, the sum should be enough to cover Berlusconi’s legal fees for the last fortnight in May.
For more on why some White House intern has collected his or her last travel stipend, please follow along…
The briefing book distributed to reporters at these events is usually fat, drab and full of maps and excerpts from the attendants’ pertinent speeches. The biographies are akin to what you might find in your favorite club’s yearbook. Something like… “When Arsene isn’t scouting out France’s finest U-11 talent, he’s playing tummysticks with the lads at the academy.” Fluffiness.
Berlusconi was the target of some heavier stuff. He’s characterized as “a political dilettante who gained his high office only through the use of his considerable influence on the national media.”
It gets better as the note goes on:
“He is a businessman who was considered an amateur in politics but used his influence on the media to gain his premiership, which he lost in 2006.”
and
“He is despised by many but respected by some for his bella figura [beautiful image].”
I take umbrage only at the former claim. Certainly Berlusconi did not use the media alone to achieve his place. Bribes, blackmail, and threats of physical violence to be imparted by the thugs in his employ certainly played a role. Not to mention his success in resurrecting that little footie club in Milan. He named his political party “Forza Italia” for shite’s sake.
Quoteth White House spokesman Tony Fratto:
“We apologize to Italy and to the Prime Minister for this very unfortunate mistake … The sentiments expressed in the biography do not represent the views of President Bush, the American government, or the American people… Italy is a close friend and ally of the United States, and as anyone who has covered President Bush knows, he holds Prime Minister Berlusconi and the Italian people in the highest regard.”
Added President Bush, in a direct message to his Italian counterpart: “I like your style, Dude.”
Written by Darkvader on July 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Spain 0-0 Italy (Spain win 4-2 on penalties)
This was the only one of the quarter-finals where the team that had won their group didn’t get knocked out — but in its own way, the result was just as much of a surprise as the other games, because it was classic choke-monkeys Spain. Beating world champions Italy. On penalties. Shocking, really.
It’s just too bad that it wasn’t a better game. Spain at least were trying, but I think Italy were playing for penalties from about the 60th minute on — if not before. And it didn’t help the flow of the game that the referee was calling absolutely everything — right up until they got into the box, when he would just decide that the Spanish player had dived.
But still, Spain kept coming forward, looking for a way through the Italians. I think at one point in the first half they were up to more than 70% of possession, with Xavi patiently pulling the strings in midfield. The problem was that as soon as they got to the edge of the 18-yard box, they’d be closed down by three or four defenders, making it almost impossible to get a clean shot off.
I do think that Italy’s defence played well — unlike some of their earlier games in the tournament — but this match mostly just reminded me why people dislike them. They were so focussed on smothering Spain’s attack that they couldn’t be bothered to mount an attack of their own. In other circumstances they probably would’ve relied on a free kick from Andrea Pirlo to nick a 1-0 win, but with Pirlo suspended, they had to look elsewhere for goals.
And unfortuately for them, Luca Toni, should’ve been their main goalscoring threat, couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. The best moment was when he attempted an overhead kick and only connected with the ball enough to divert it out of the path of Fabio Grosso, who would’ve had a clear header on goal. Combined with Mario Gomez’s awful performances for Germany, I have to wonder just what they do to strikers in the Bundesliga. And I’m a bit surprised that Roberto Donadoni didn’t drop Toni and replace him with, say, Marco Boriello — but on the other hand, Donadoni hasn’t seemed to have a clue who he should be picking in his team.
I was almost pleasantly surprised, though, to see the substitutions that Luis Aragones made for Spain, bringing Cesc Fabregas and Santi Cazorla on for Xavi and Andres Iniesta partway through the second half, in an attempt to change things up and make them play more direct football. I’m still disappointed that Xabi Alonso didn’t get to play instead of one of their tiny interchangeable midfielders. But I can understand why they wouldn’t want to drop Marcos Senna, because he had a very good game and even almost scored when Gianluigi Buffon fumbled his shot.
Spain continued to press throughout the second half and extra time, but they still couldn’t find a goal. (They did get a whole bunch of corners, but that doesn’t do much good when the other team are all about a foot taller than you.) And so we had a second quarter-final match being decided by a penalty shootout.
I can completely understand why Italy would feel that penalties were their best shot at winning, with the track record they’ve got — plus supposedly the best goalkeeper in the world. But it backfired on them here. Iker Casillas — who’d made a great reflex save on Mauro Camoranesi’s shot late in the second half to keep his team in the game — was absofuckinglutely awesome in the shootout, saving penalties from Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Di Natale before Cesc Fabregas stepped up to score the decisive spot-kick.
As an aside, I think Iker is now cutting off not only the bottoms of his jerseys but also the sleeves. I am amused by the idea of him hacking at his uniform with a pair of scissors in the locker room before a game. I swear next week he’s going to be out there in a crop top. (I’m not saying I would entirely disapprove. Um.)
Anyway, Spain have (hopefully) vanquished some of their demons, and now they face a rematch with Russia in the semi-finals. I know they beat them 4-1 in the opening match, but I can’t help being worried because (1) although Spain forestalled the choking this time, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen down the road and (2) Russia have all of a sudden become good. They’ll probably give Spain more space to play than Italy did, but on the other hand Russia could pick apart the Spanish defence like they did the Netherlands. Sergio Ramos will probably slip in a puddle of hair gel and gift them a goal.
Bad hair of the day award: Not Ramos but Luca Toni. Purely for the pornstache. I don’t know, maybe he thought it would help him score, but no. Not in any sense of the word.
Written by Jen on June 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Italian manager Roberto Donanoni
has been fired. Hot on the heels of (
what one UFer says is) the best run of any non-winning teams in the European championship, Donadoni has been unceremoniously sacked.
I will not be sad for him. Oh no. I, for one, will prefer to remember him in happier, more hirsute, times.
Goodnight, sweet prince. We'll see you on the sidelines at Catania soon.
Written by Darkvader on June 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Look at you, dancing on their little graves.
Ding. Dong. Blah. Blah.
Hell, Andy Gray was openly rooting against the Italians in the dying moments of Sunday's quarterfinal match and going so far as to wish Cesc good luck before his spot kick.
He made it. You happy now?
I'm sure you're all as thrilled as the boys in the Castro that Torres and Villa and Xavi are all still alive. Did you think they'd crumble? Did you think they'd lay down and die? Oh no, they will survive.
Well, fuck all of y'all and the collective horses you rode in on.
Sure Italy played "negative" football (Whatever that is, I mean, were they unscoring goals? Was it negative nil - negative nil at half, or at full time? And if Spain was playing positive football wouldn't the pitch have imploded upon itself?) but put yourself in Donadoni's shoes.
And, first, realize how lucky you are to be in such a nice pair of Forzieris. Yeah, chicks might even talk to a dickhead like you in those.
Okay, now look up from your sweet shoes and at your roster. Your best defender, the guy who two years ago shut down the entire world? He's out with an injury he suffered in training before the tournament even started.
Now, from cards, you've got no Andrea Pirlo, the best midfielder in the squad and your only creative linkage to your forwards, and gone with him is Gennaro Gattuso. He's a little over rated as a player, but he's a fucking bulldog and he looks like he is going to will the team to victory alone by singing the fucking anthem.
Fratelli d'Italia,
l'Italia s'è desta.
Fuck yeah, she has. Makes me wish the other half of me was Italian. Now let's play some fucking futbol.
I know they don't give points for singing your anthem, but if they did, the Eye-tals would have about thirteen of those stars over the scudetto on the Azzurri shirts. Shit, they'd be out of space. They'd have stars running all the way to their armpits.
And it's not just the players. Even the hot Italian ass in the crowd sings like they're gonna have to blow the corpse of Il Duce if they don't belt one out with every fiber in their incorporeal soul.
Anyway, you're still Donadoni. Now after looking at what you don't have, you look at what you do have.
Your best scoring threat looks like he skipped out on special ed class to be on the pitch. He also plays in Germany. Here's the list of top two scorers in the Budesliga this year:
1) Luca Toni
2) Mario Gomez
They combined to score zero goals against actual soccer players in the Euro. Here's how crappy the Bundesliga is: you know who finished third in scoring?
3) Wizard Cat (all the way left... the bunny was the goalie for Schalke 04).
But, you do have probably the best keeper on the planet. So Donadoni did what any fucking sane person would—play to his strengths.
Shit even an Italian can figure that one out, probably didn't even need to watch the tape of the Russia v Spain match from the group stages either to do it: "Well, No Cannavaro, no Gattuso, no Pirlo, no fucking prayer of winning an up-and-down affair. I can get run off the pitch 6-1 and never coach again, or I can try to suffocate the Spanish attack maybe generate a chance or two to score and escape 1-0 or, if not, take a chance with PKs."
And it worked for ("I'm Dave Kendall and you're watching... ") 120 minutes. He took it to the coinflip, and eh, he lost.
So, sorry if you fucking precious sense of the aesthetic was offended by what happened on Sunday, but there was a soccer match to be won. And you'll have to excuse the coach for using, you know, tactics and shit to try to win it.
Hell, Turkey does the same thing—sucks the life out of a game—and you all jump on their bandwagon like they are giving away hookers and Furbees.
So go on with your selfish little celebrations, but maybe just take a moment to consider the following. First, you should be thanking the Virgin Mary in your taco shell that Italy eliminated France. The French had actual dynamic players with talent and couldn't do shit. They was fucking painful to watch
Second, we might not be champions of Europe, but we still get to hang on to our moniker of World Champions for a couple of more years. Call me when Spain, or Turkey, or Russia, or anyone not named Brazil has one or four of those to call their own. Yeah, that's the sound of my phone not ringing.
Dead my ass.
Only for this tourney.
Written by Darkvader on June 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Well, it doesn’t look like any of us are available for duty to day, so please use this thread to amuse yourselves.
Suggested things to discuss:
Why a certain player will go to your favorite club and be awesome.
Why a certain player will go to your rival and suck balls.
How a crazed lunatic can pull a wife like to the right. (NSFW pic link)
Does Donadoni really look like Wayne Coyne or is it just me?
Lineups after the jump. Have fun and stay awake.
Italy-Spain 14.45 EDT (ESPN)
Italy: Buffon, Zambrotta, Panucci, Chiellini, Grosso, Aquilani, De Rossi, Massimo Ambrosini, Perrotta, Cassano, Toni.
Spain: Casillas, Ramos, Puyol, Marchena, Capdevila, Senna, Iniesta, Xavi, Silva, Villa, Torres.
USA-Barbados 15.00 EDT (ESPN Classic)
USA: Guzan; Moor, Califf, DeMerit, Pearce; Kljestan, Szetela, Bradley, Lewis; Adu, Beasley.
Subs: Seitz; Bocanegra, Onyewu; Thorrington; Shea, Barrett, Rolfe.
Barbados: Rouse; Neblett, Straker, Boyce, Skeete; Nurse, Parris, Miller; Ifill, McCammon, Williams.
46:00 Hello gents and ladies…I just got done signing my contract with Arsene Wenger and achieving fame and fortune like Nike promised.
Hopefully we will get a bit of excitement in this 2nd half.
48:00 Iniesta blew a wonderful chance when Torres picked him out in the box and David Villa dummied the ball. Iniesta was in on goal too. Woeful touch.
49:00 David Villa had a wonderful turn inside the 6 yard box after collecting a ricochet but dawdled on the ball allowing Chiellini to recover and block his shot.
50:00 Toni offside just barely on a Grosso cross. Just a shade off.
51:00 Spain dispossessed at half but Cassano plays a terrible ball on the break.
53:00 Spain on the break hits Villa on the right who tries to cross (shoot?) the ball but it was deliciously awful hit towards the stewards.
55:00 Torres had a chance after saving the ball on the touchline but the italian defender blocked the cross towards Villa in the box.
57:00 I’m not sure, but if Andy Gray ran into the ref on the streets, I think he would spit on him. Every call of his is bad and Gray is right.
58:00 Perotta off for Camoranesi.
Corner to Spain, Xavi over it…
59:00 Buffon knocks it out to Silva who shanks an open shot from 23.
Cazorla on for Iniesta. Fabregas on for Xavi.
Interesting change that really shakes up the middle of the pitch for Spain.
61:00 What a save from Casillas! There was a scramble in the box as the tree Toni managed to get a foot to the ball as Casillas came out, the ball dropped in the box with a brief scramble that allowed Casillas to get back in position as Camorenasi turns on the ball and Casillas pokes it away with his left foot.
64:00 After that disco in the box, the teams have taken a disco nap.
67:00 Disco nap over as Italy starts to push forward again with Toni drawing a free kick wasted by Camoranesi.
69:00 Panucci jawing at Fabregas for some reason. David Villa lines up over a free kick from 30…deflected off the wall for a corner.
70:00 Fabregas with the corner that results in nada.
Zambrotta feeds a nice ball to Toni, who is too tall for the Spanish defenders, who heads it but can’t get it on frame.
72:00 Villa booked for a dive…but it looks like he lost his footing after standing on the ball for way too long. What a waste…
Replays show Torres shoving an Italian defender and the patting him on the face. Lucky he wasn’t booked.
74:00 Cassano off, di Natale on…he didn’t do a lot tonight.
75:00 The ref is really a nag…blowing his whistle for every little thing.
77:00 This half has been even more boring than the first half.
78:00 Torres with a lovely touch and had Panucci beaten but nobody was in the middle of the box and he wins a corner that Buffon punched out.
79:00 Senna rockets a free kick at Buffon who swats it away like a mosquito.
81:00 What a shot by Senna from 22, Buffon spilled and it only didn’t go in the goal because of the post.
83:00 Ramos made his first good defensive play of the tournament knocking Toni off of a header.
Toni took the ball away from Grosso who was hard charging. Toni was trying to get a foot on it through some sort of bicycle kick.
85:00 Torres off for Guiza. Boo!
Unfortunately for Torres, the Spanish squad doesn’t have the right talent to exploit his skills. Nobody will free him with a good ball and nobody supports him on his runs.
86:00 Guiza with a bonehead move. In the middle of the box with room he handles it. What a dunce. That was a goal.
90:00 So, immediately after Torres goes off the pitch, the Spaniards start feeding balls that are perfect for him to run on. You would think maybe his teammates don’t like him.
90:00 +1 This ref has been snookered by the Italians. Every time they are down he makes the play stop even if there wasn’t a foul. Toni just did it on a Puyol tackle.
90:00 +2 David Villa with a terrible touch on a great Fabregas ball. Villa had the ball in the box and turned it back into the defense instead of away to a left footed shot that would have been on goal.
That was really poor. Should have taken him off instead of Torres.
End of Regular Time.
No subs left for Spain and only one for Italy. Spain really needs to change their tactics because Italy is just packing the box.
91:00 Silva draws a foul from 24. Silva takes it…
92:00 Chiellini and Ramos tangle in the box, Sergio calling for a penalty and then Chiellini gets in his face.
93:00 Nice counter from Spain. Villa crosses it to Guiza who heads it to the middle to Fabregas whose shot is blocked but the rebound came to Silva who unleashed a shot just inches wide.
94:00 Whistle on Fabregas who kicks Chiellini in the bottom of the foot. That smarts.
95:00 Grosso tries to feed Toni in the box, but just deflected before Toni arrives…di Natale gets an excellent header that Casillas tips over.
96:00 De Rossi’s corner is headed near post but over by Toni.
99:00 That was an amazing attempt by Villa. He had fallen down in the box but the ball was in his wickets and he somehow gets a foot on it to get it to the oncoming Fabregas, but he gets squeezed out.
103:00 That was some Spanish class as a Spanish fan grabs his crotch during a chant. Lovely. I’m sure Disney is very happy.
104:00 Guiza and Spain are desparate. Guiza has no creativity and just tries to lash one in when Buffon had the angles instead of trying to cross one to the middle.
End of First Extra Period.
We really need a moment of brilliance.
106:00 Back on.
107:00 Ramos whistled for kicking Camoranesi in the shoulder. Dangerous position at the corner of the 18. De Rossi tries to loop one in but nobody moved.
108:00 Del Piero on for Aquilani.
110:00 Silva releases David Villa but just a hair too far and Buffon is out smothering it. Corner. Nothing doing.
112:00 Cazorla booked for dissent when he should have had a corner.
This ref is awful. Stopping play again.
116:00 This game sucks hard, like Jenna Jameson.
117:00 Really, I can’t tell you how much I am hating this match right now.
118:00 David Silva doubles Del Piero because he knows Ramos will get his jock handed to him.
119:00 Guiza has another wonderful off-target shot. if you want to strike from sea, at least hit the beach.
120:00 Cazorla takes a shot across the face of the goal but misses picking out David Villa who was running on free. Spain’s wingers are awful.
End of Extra Time
On to PKs. Two of the top GKs in the world Casillas and Buffon. This could be interesting. Has Buffon already used up his PK luck with his Mutu save? Can Spain and Casillas finally prevail on PKs?
Mike Georger in the comments directs us to the Wikipedia page of Herbert Fandel, the ref. He is apparently a stunt-butt.
David Villa scores the first. 1-0 Spain.
Grosso hits a lovely one to the side net. 1-1.
Cazorla steps up for Spain and slots it lower right. Spain 2 - 1 Italy
De Rossi up and is stopped by Casillas. Lovely save by Casillas. Spain 2 - Italy 1
Senna up for Spain, and chips it into the top of the net…Lovely. Spain 3 - Italy 1.
Camoranesi slots it home top right. Spain 3 - Italy 2.
Guiza up for Spain…Buffon saves. Poor kick. Spain 3 - Italy 2.
Di Natale steps up for Italy and Casillas saves. Another great save. Spain 3 - Italy 2.
Fabregas up for Spain to send them on to the semis. Spain 4 - Italy 2.
Thank the lord. I don’t want to watch another Italy game. Casillas was brilliant.
Spain will face Russia in the semis which should be a great matchup. Spain beat Russia 4-1 in the first match of the group stage, but Russia seems much improved. Spain also beats the June 22 hex and advances on PKs. Now if only Aragones can figure out how to use Torres properly with all the rest of his talent.
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Written by Darkvader on June 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Roberto Mancini is currently clubless after leaving Inter Milan, but he has been linked with a number of teams around Europe - including Real Madrid.
