Jogaram em Parma, no estádio Ennio Tardini, para um público de 15.009 pessoas, as seleções da Itália (4º no ranking da FIFA) e Chipre (65º no ranking da FIFA).
As 2 seleções jogaram antes desse jogo, os seguintes jogos:
22-03-1967 - Chipre 0x2 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
01-11-1967 - Itália 5x0 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
12-02-1983 - Chipre 1x1 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
22-12-1983 - Itália 3x1 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
22-12-1990 - Chipre 0x4 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
21-12-1991 - Itália 2x0 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
06-09-2008 - Chipre 1x2 Itália (Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim:
Árbitro: Alon Yefet-ISR
Primeiro Assistente: Shmuel SHTEIF-ISR
Segundo Assistente: Danny KRASIKOW-ISR
Quarto Árbitro: Asaf KENAN-ISR
Aos 12 minutos do primeiro tempo, o camisa 12, Konstantinos MAKRIDIS abriu o placar para a seleção do Chipre. Click to continue reading...

Jogaram em Dublin, no estádio Croke Park, para um público de 70.640 pessoas, as seleções do Eire (34º no ranking da FIFA) e Itália (4º do ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Copas do Mundo
1994
New York/New Jersey
18/06/1994
ITA
0:1 (0:1)
IRL
Group matches
1990
Rome
30/06/1990
ITA
1:0 (1:0)
IRL
Quarter-finals
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
2010
Bari
01/04/2009
ITA
1:1 (1:0)
IRL
First stage
Eliminatórias Eurocopa
1972
Dublin
10/05/1971
IRL
1:2 (1:1)
ITA
Preliminary round
1972
Florence
08/12/1970
ITA
3:0 (2:0)
IRL
Preliminary round
Amistosos
2005
Dublin
17/08/2005
IRL
1:2 (1:2)
ITA
1992
Foxboro
04/06/1992
IRL
0:2 (0:1)
ITA
1985
Dublin
05/02/1985
IRL
1:2 (0:2)
ITA
1926
Turin
21/03/1926
ITA
3:0 (3:0)
IRL
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:

• Referee: Terje HAUGE (NOR)
• Assistant Referee 1: Steinar HOLVIK (NOR)
• Assistant Referee 2: Frank ANDAS (NOR)
• Fourth official: Espen BERNTSEN (NOR),

Aos 8 minutos do primeiro tempo, 6 Glenn WHELAN abriu o placar para a seleção da Irlanda. Click to continue reading...

The Italian Serie A has had an interesting start with Sampdoria leading the table. Inter Milan or Internazionale hosted Udinese on Saturday looking to recover from last week's loss against Sampdoria. The match took place at the San Siro. Here's a recap along with vdieo highlights for the match on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

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I'm just going to throw it out there: this might be the worst goals of the week post of all time. Nothing spectacular at all this weekend, most goals were very plain and ordinary. Of the 18 goals scored this weekend, about 3 are top goal worthy. But let's see this week's goals of the week (hoping that Giornata 7 brings us better ones):

Massimo Maccarone vs.

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Two words to describe this weekend's action: low scoring.� No team scored more than 2 goals during their match, and the highest combined goal total was 3 (Napoli's 2-1 win over Siena).� However, a more appropriate word may be clarity, as we now can begin to see more clearly the strengths and weaknesses of many clubs, whether they be contenders (Sampdoria!

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Seven goals in five games have confirmed Udinese's forward as one of Serie A's most consistent scorers.
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The Italian Serie had a full set of midweek matches including AC Milan at Udinese and Internazionale (Inter Milan) v Napoli. Overall, AC Milan has struggled early in the season while Inter and Juventus look strong. Here's a recap of both of these matches along with video highlights.

Udinese upsets AC Milan 1-0 Video Highlights

AC Milan continued to struggle as they quickly conceded a goal in the 22nd minute by Antonio Di Natale.

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Antonio Di Natale strike in the 21st minute of the game was enough to see Udinese take all three points and send Milan home without a point. Despite dominating possession, Milan were unable to break down the Udinese defence. The introduction of Ronaldinho in the second half made Milan are more attacking threat however it [. Click to continue reading...

After reports that Ronaldinho may be retiring, Milan needed a convincing victory against Bologna while Juventus and Inter wished to continue their good starts to the season.

So here are the results and to be honest, no great surprises in what occurred.

Napoli 0-0 Udinese

Juventus 2-0 Livorno

Catania 1-1 Lazio

Milan 1-0 Bologna

Sampdoria 4-1 Siena

Cagliari 1-2 Inter Milan

Parma 1-0 Palermo

Bari 4-1 Atalanta

Chievo 3-1 Genoa

Roma 3-1 Fiorentina

A good away victory for Inter sees them enter the top three for the first time this season.

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Strikers live and die by their goal tallies, so I thought it'd be interesting to take a peak to see who is doing well as the European season gets under way. � Here's a snapshot, see the link below for the goal tallies on an on-going basis.

Top
League in Goals Top
Scorers England 4 Jermaine Defoe, Wayne� Rooney France 4 Yoann Gourcuff Germany 4 Paolo Guerrero, Stefan� Kiessling Italy 3 Antonio Di Natale Portugal 3 Oscar Cardozo, Garcia� Radamei Spain 3 Roberto Soldado

The players above have scored at an amazing rate over the first league games.

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Serie A is back which means Goals of the Week is back! You can't always expect the first day of the season to have the greatest goals, as the teams are just starting to get all their summer rust off and haven't hit their peak yet. But there were still some nice goals for us to watch this past weekend.

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Today it was reported that at 35 years of age, Roma striker Vincenzo Montella has decided to retire. Montella was one of the best strikers Italy has ever produced and one of Italy's deadliest strikers in the late 90's and early 2000's. Short in stature and nicknamed "L'Aeroplanino" (Little Airplane) for his trademark goal celebration (pictured), Montella had a lethal left foot and seemed to find the net from any angle, scoring some beautiful goals.

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After the first 45 minutes, Italy up 1-0 over hosts Montenegro off the free kick of Andrea Pirlo....
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All together now: "Thank you Udinese!!". The Italian disaster-fest that was the UEFA Champions League this year will not be easily forgotten, but at least there is one team giving us consolation and keeping the peninsula's pride elevated (to moderate heights at least) as they mantain their presence in Europe's second-choice cup: the UEFA (soon-to-be Europa) [. Click to continue reading...

After their nasty performance in Turin and receiving the heavy criticisms of big boss Giampaolo Pozzo, Udinese can breathe some fresh air again. European air. For not only did they turn a 1-0 half-time deficit over Lech Poznań into a 2-1 victory (and subsequent qualification to the UEFA Cup's round of 16), they are also [. Click to continue reading...

After their nasty performance in Turin and receiving the heavy criticisms of big boss Giampaolo Pozzo, Udinese can breathe some fresh air again. European air. For not only did they turn a 1-0 half-time deficit over Lech Poznań into a 2-1 victory (and subsequent qualification to the UEFA Cup's round of 16), they are also [. Click to continue reading...

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...and Fabio Quagliarella. At the end of the day the main story of Napoli vs. Udinese, without a doubt, will be the Udinese striker's fantastic 2-2 tally. The kind that Quagliarella has been known to do, the kind that has made us fall in love with this great player: side volley from outside the box, [. Click to continue reading...

...and Fabio Quagliarella. At the end of the day the main story of Napoli vs. Udinese, without a doubt, will be the Udinese striker's fantastic 2-2 tally. The kind that Quagliarella has been known to do, the kind that has made us fall in love with this great player: side volley from outside the box, [. Click to continue reading...

As a Bianconero, big disappointment lingers in my mind after Wednesday's Serie A action. Not only did an unrecognizable (and Del Piero-less) Juve lose away to Udinese, but Inter Milan's concurrent win over Catania (and AC Milan's draw to Genoa) restores the Nerazzurri's +6/+8 lead, leaving us to wonder if the current order of the [. Click to continue reading...

As a Bianconero, big disappointment lingers in my mind after Wednesday's Serie A action. Not only did an unrecognizable (and Del Piero-less) Juve lose away to Udinese, but Inter Milan's concurrent win over Catania (and AC Milan's draw to Genoa) restores the Nerazzurri's +6/+8 lead, leaving us to wonder if the current order of the [. Click to continue reading...

Match day 16  welcomes a main event of Juventus vs. AC Milan. Will Juventus overcome fatigue to best scudetto contenders Milan? or will the visiting Rossoneri, overcome injury with a minus-Galacticos lineup (David Beckham has not yet arrived and Ronaldinho doubtful joining Gennaro Gattuso) to reassert themselves as the true rivials of Internazionale? Click to continue reading...

Saturday, November 29th  Catania 1 - 1 Lecce Juventus 4 - 0 Reggina Sunday, November 30th  AS Roma 1 - 0 Fiorentina Atalanta 2 - 0 Lazio Cagliari 1 - 0 Sampdoria Genoa 1 - 1 Bologna Inter Milan 2 - 1 Napoli Siena 1 - 0 Torino Udinese 0 - 1 Chievo Palermo 3 - 1 AC Milan Palermo - AC Milan Several shock results this match day [. Click to continue reading...

The perfect example of "a match of two halves", Saturday's Fiorentina vs. Udinese also delighted Serie A fans with a big deluge of goals, courtesy of some often shaky defending (on both sides) but more so of the great prideful reaction by Cesare Prandelli's boys. One goal down early in the game, La Viola looked [. Click to continue reading...

Good operation for Italy on Matchday 1 of the UEFA Cup Group Stage. Indeed, out of the three Serie A teams still left in the competition, all of AC Milan, Udinese, and Sampdoria were victorious, achieving wins over Heerenveen (3-1), Tottenham (2-0), and Partizan Belgrade (2-1) respectively. Not only that, but Thursday night was special [. Click to continue reading...

The Azzurri have arrived in Sofia Friday, around 8:00pm local time. The players were greeted by the usual groups of photographers, camera crew, and even a small group of Italian supporters, who will no doubt be present on the stands of Levski Stadium tomorrow, as Bulgaria host Italy for the South Africa 2010 World Cup [. Click to continue reading...

In the current calcio world of teams that are constantly undergoing financial troubles, that jump between Serie A and Serie B, that get relegated and never come back, that have crazy owners who fire managers left and right, that have locker room problems, there is one club that defies all of these qualities and performs miracles every year.

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After the long international break, Serie A is back! Here are some things to look out for when you're watching calcio this weekend:

Walter Zenga trying to beat his old team

Walter Zenga, an Inter legend, returns to the San Siro to take on reigning champions Inter and try to beat his former club.

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