05-30-2008
Antonio Di Natale scored twice in the first half and Italy beat Belgium 3-1 on Friday in the Azzurr...
05-20-2008
AC Milan forward Filippo Inzaghi was left out when Italy coach Roberto Donadoni announced a preliminary roster Tuesday for the European Championship.
The 34-year-old Inzaghi scored 11 goals in Serie A this season and netted twice when AC Milan won the Club World Cup in December. Donadoni opted for Luca Toni, Antonio Di Natale, Fabio Quagliarella, Alessandro Del Piero, Marco Borriello and Antonio Cassano in attack instead.
Inzaghi has score...
05-20-2008
Italy coach Roberto Donadoni handed Antonio Cassano an international lifeline by naming him in his 24-man preliminary squad for Euro 2008.
Cassano has starred while on loan at Sampdoria from Real Madrid this season but has often found himself in the headlines for the wrong reasons - most notably when he threw his shirt at a referee after being sent off against Torino.
The 25-year-old played at Euro 2004 but did not make it to the 2006 Worl...
04-14-2008
Rafael van der Vaart told Fifa.com that the Netherlands are in no way guaranteed Euro 2008 success, although he'll try his best to take them towards it...
The world soccer governing body ventured that the Hamburger SV man's previous declarations about his side being 'underdogs' was mere deflection, but Rafael disputes this.
He said, "It wasn't necessarily a bluff. Just look at our group. We've got two of the favourites - Italy and France -...
04-14-2008
Euro is not just a tournament to be watched by Europeans, but it has viewers all over the world. In some respects, it is indeed more interesting, stirring and exciting than the World Cup with 16 top teams of Europe whereas the FIFA World Cup is lengthy and there are a lot of gaps between the teams participating which makes a lot of matches not worthy of a World Cup. Granted there is a disparity between some teams in Euro as well, but it is far l...
04-14-2008
Pl 2012 is a company set up by the Polish government to co-ordinate and supervise the Polish side of undertakings ahead of the European Football Championships to be held in Poland and Ukraine in four years’ time. POLISH MARKET’s Jacek Świdziński discusses Pl 2012 activities with the company’s President Marcin Herra.
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03-31-2008
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Czech Republic coach Karel Bruckner underwent an operation on his spine on Friday and should recover in time for the European Championship.
The surgery at Na Homolce hospital was planned and went without complications, the Czech soccer federation said in a statement Friday.
Bruckner will be moved to Prague's military hospital over the weekend and will stay about 10 days. He is then expected to recuperate at home for a ...
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