On 9 July 2006 inside Berlin’s Olympiastadion, 120 minutes of football were not enough to decide a victor […]
Italy
Angelo Di Livio is a joke. That is harsh on a man who won three Scudetti, two Coppe […]
Juventus versus Napoli is one of Italian football’s classic rivalries. On the field, it has pitted some of […]
When thinking of Italian football’s pioneers, William Garbutt may not be the first name that springs to mind. […]
On 2 April 2013, Paolo Di Canio entered the pressroom at the Stadium of Light to begin his […]
On New Year’s day, when an ex-student of mine, a proud Veronese with a curious west coast drawl, […]
It is a small country on the fringes of Europe, a country whose people have spread knowledge, ‘craic’ […]
Despite a laudable haul of four world cups, Italy have only won the European Championships once – back […]
On a June evening in Porto in 2004, a Scandinavian derby took place in a decisive game of […]
As a relatively young nation with proud regional identities, Italians have a complex relationship with their national team. […]
In questionable taste, metaphors of war are frequently wheeled out to describe football matches. Spells of territorial dominance […]
A total of 44,000 people were crammed into the Sarria Stadium in Barcelona on the 5th July 1982. […]
After Italy started their Euro 2012 campaign with an impressive 1-1 draw with World Champions Spain in Gdansk, […]
Made by: Kappa Worn by: Francesco Totti, Alessandro Del Piero, Fabio Cannavaro, Antonio Conte, Marco Delvecchio Year: 2000 […]
In the early years of the new millennium, two prodigious young attacking talents were blazing a trail through […]