No legs, no brain, no energy, no determination, no character, no good will, nothing. We expressed nothing at all yesterday and it doesn’t really comfort me what Lippi said during the international press conference in Johannesburg: ”I obviously didn’t prepare the side as I should have, I would never have expected my team to play as they did in the first half.”
Ac Milan player Andrea Pirlo did a full training session today for the first time at the South Africa World Cup, hoping he could play for Italy in their final Group F match, against Slovakia on Thursday. Pirlo missed the opening 1-1 draw with Paraguay and yesterday’s shock 1-1 draw with New Zealand for a calf injury, leaving the world champions without any real creativity in midfield, as well as in the attack sector.
Alarm for Italy at the World Cup after doctors yesterday said that they do not know when goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will be able to recover from a back problem. Buffon, part of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning team, was forced to come off at halftime of the Azzurri’s opening match against Group F rivals Paraguay, which ended 1-1.
Coach Marcello Lippi and Italy’s 23-man World Cup squad arrived in South Africa two days ago and today has the first match in preparation of the Championship. The Azzurri are in Group F at the finals and have to face New Zealand, Paraguay and Slovakia.
Inter football club secured a fifth straight Serie A title yesterday after winning the match against Siena on Sunday thanks to the only goal of Milito. It was Inter’s 18th scudetto crown and keeps Jose Mourinho’s team on course for a historic treble, having already won the Italian Cup and with the Champions League final against Bayern Munich to come in Madrid this coming Saturday (May 22).
Inter football team from Milan is ready to face Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg today. If they get past Barca at the Nou Camp they’ll meet the Bayern Munich in the Champions League Final in Madrid on May 22.
BlogSicilia yesterday wrote a letter to the President of Palermo football club, Maurizio Zamparini, to explicitly ask him a sign of solidarity for the Fiat’s workers of Termini Imerese who lost their jobs. Next Sunday infact there will be an important football match: Juventus – Palermo, that in those difficult days it is not only a sport meeting, but obviously implies the fact that there will be the city of Turin versus Palermo, and above all Fiat versus Termini Imerese.
After waiting for the Final Draw of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, that took place yesterday evening in South Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre we finally got the results. 32 countries and their supporters now know the future of their National teams.
Italy present coach Marcello Lippi hits back at the whistles towards him and the chorus referred to Cassano. “I don’t care what people do – he said – if some people want to whistle to whom brought the World Cup in Italy, they are welcome, I will do my best anyway to give Italy a second one.
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