Italy’s Gianluigi Buffon might go onto the history books if his team goes for 90 minutes without conceding any goal.

A clean sheet over the 90 minutes of Sunday’s Final will see Buffon – last beaten in the 27th minute of Italy’s second group game against the USA when Cristian Zaccardo put through his own net […]

Italy’s Perotta and England’s legend, Sir Geoff Hurst share a lot of common things.

Forty years ago, Ashton’s most celebrated son, Sir Geoff Hurst, scored the only hat-trick in FIFA World Cup in England’s Final win over Germany. Four decades on, another footballer from the same Lancashire town is bidding for glory in the Final […]

Unfortunately for him and for his team, Alessandro Nesta will not play in the World Cup final against France, on the 9th of July.

Nesta’s failure to recover from the groin injury sustained against the Czech Republic on 22 June was confirmed at Thursday’s press conference in Duisburg, prior to the squad’s return to training […]

Marcello Lippi says that all the problems have brought Italy closer together.

“Certainly, initially, all the confusion that came out two or three months ago created a desire and a determination to respond and show that Italian football is effective, real and strong on a technical and moral level,” said Lippi. “It helped to create […]

Cannavaro says they were driven by rage in the game against Germany in the semifinals of the World Cup: the rage caused by the German press, by Pessoto’s suicidal attempt, by the scandals in Italy.

“First we lost to the host nation in 2002, and that was dubious, and then we failed in Portugal. We’ve put […]

The well-known singer Ennio Morricone feels Italy has fought like lions to qualify to the final of World Cup.

They fought like lions! They were clearly the better side and performed like true professionals. They’re a very solid unit with great team spirit. (Gianluigi) Buffon was in fantastic form.
The defence has been brilliant throughout the tournament. […]

Italian press is, of course, full of articles raving about their team’s performance. More, they even thionk nobody could ever beat them.

The 2-0 extra-time win over the hosts in Dortmund was an historic one for the Italians “who could beat anyone - even the Martians” wrote the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.
“The whole of Germany will […]

Rome is back in a World Cup final 12 years after the final they lost to Brazil in 1994. Do you think they were happy? Of course, you would be wrong. Happy doesn’t describe it.

After watching TV coverage of a tense two hours of play in Dortmund, cries of joy rang out from apartments and […]

The game had everything: fight, tactics and, more important, drama and goals.

It was an unbelievably intense game between two superbly organised teams. Italy had the better of the possession and let the ball do the work in midfield. They were exceptionally efficient and it was interesting watching them play. Germany kept it very tight at […]

Dissapointment and joy.

Andrea PIRLO (ITA), Budweiser Man of the Match(ITA)
It was a fantastic game, absolutely overflowing with emotions. It was a childhood dream for me to play in a semi-final. I think that we earned our win today. We created a lot of chances, and we also definitely had the luck we needed.
Miroslav KLOSE (GER)
We […]