This just in: The U.S. WNT spends lots of time in airports. Here the squad waits for its flight to Canada.
Easy travel day for the U.S. WNT today. Relatively short flight from LA (not sure how long, but it's whatever is the length of Moneyball+ a short nap. Also, the WNT Blog maintains that Brad Pitt is underrated as an actor), into the same time zone and they players had time to get a weight workout in the morning and get into Vancouver in time for dinner in the evening.

Carlos Tevez's move to Italy seems to be gaining momentum with every new day. Just last week Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian met with Milan Vice President Adriano Galliani for a dinner which many believe was a disguise to discuss the fate of the Argentine striker.

This is the second meeting between both players after their first meeting at Milan headquarters more than a week ago.

Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Eurocopa de 2012, foi realizado no dia 02/09/2011, na cidade de Thorshvan-FAR, onde jogaram as seleções das Ilhas Faroe (111º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Itália (7º no ranking da FifA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Florence 07/09/2010 ITA5:0 (3:0)FRO 2008Modena 21/11/2007 ITA3:1 (3:0)FRO 2008Torshavn 02/06/2007 FRO1:2 (0:1)ITA
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Tamas Bognar-HUN
O único gol do jogo, foi de Antonio Cassano, aos 11 minutos do primeiro tempo, sendo seu sétimo gol pela seleção nacional.

Italy, oh Italy! The world's eyes are fixated on their fallen president and wacky owner of AC Milan today... Botox Berlusconi! Well, everyone except the Azzurri of course, where it was 'Business as Usual' with medical checks at the team's training camp in Florence yesterday.

The first game of the weekend is nearly upon in Florence where Fiorentina will take on a resurgent Catania side. After a slow start to their season southerners Catania have achieved noticeable results especially the brilliant 2-1 home victory over Inter Milan last Saturday. Obviously manager Vincenzo Montella will be looking to have his squad continue their run by shooting for another victory in.

Life's tough enough for the unemployed in an unstable global economy. And life is certainly tough enough for those who have to referee football games.

But it's infinitely worse when unemployed and forced to live with the same name as a referee recently rendered exceedingly unpopular by some decisions in a rather large game the previous weekend.

Massimo Paolone / Iguana Press/Getty Images (Bleacher Report) Liverpool have reportedly been inquiring about the availability of Juan Manuel Vargas from Fiorentina. The Reds have had previous dealings with the Florence-based Serie A club, as Fiorentino looked to sign Alberto Aquilani on loan earlier in the summer window.

Ricardo Montolivo and Jan Vertonghen are two players that have been linked with Arsenal over the last couple of months, and today there is good news and bad news to report about them both. Montolivo is out of contract in the summer with Fiorentina and just two weeks ago said, "Florence has always been my [.

By Chris Wright

Along with Cesare Prandelli and Gigi Buffon, Mario Balotelli paid a visit to Sollicciano prison in Florence yesterday and was immediately greeted as some kind of demi-god, being mobbed by the inmates as soon as he entered the hall...

I was fearing for his diamond earring at one point there.

I'm just going to put this bit of ignorance out there to start the day: every town in Italy looks exactly the same. Or at least my never-been-to-Italy ass thinks so. Seriously, this looks like an interview sequence from the current, Florence-filmed season of Jersey Shore; I half-expected to see a cut of Sammi drunk & crying and a coked-out Situation making "that face" as he looks out over the top of his sunglasses before the whole thing was over.

Gazzetta dello Sport Juve double assault Prandelli says "If Cassano stays at Milan, will be a regular" Galliani applauds Montolivo-Aquilani "They are Mr X and Mr Y" De Laurentiis to go to Spain for Rossi Inter: Tevez or Lavezzi on the way Eto'o perhaps in Russia by August 21 De La Pena goes, offer increased for Osvaldo Gilardino for Genoa, Maxi Lopez towards Florence .

Agent: Aquilani to Fiorentina Deal 50/50

Alberto Aquilani's agent remains positive that a deal to take his client to Fiorentina this summer can still be reached, even desite reports earlier today suggesting a loan move was out of the quesiton . Aquilani would prefer to make the switch to Italy on a permanent basis to avoid having to spend another summer in limbo when the curtain comes down on the 2011/12 campaign.

Alberto Aquilani has '50% chance' of move to Fiorentina

• Liverpool midfielder wants permanent move back to Serie A • 'The club must think about it. It's a difficult deal' – agent The Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani has a 50% chance of joining Fiorentina, according to his agent.

Fiorentina could bring Alberto Aquilani back to Serie A by paying Liverpool to take him on loan.
Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic confirmed in his Press conference on Friday that his team "needs an Aquilani-style midfielder" for this season.
The Italian international has made it clear he would like to play in Serie A after Juventus failed to take up their option to make a loan spell permanent.

ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina or La Viola, is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in 1926, Fiorentina has played at the top-level of Italian football for the majority of their its existence. After climbing back up the Italian football system in the early 2000s from Serie [.

Newcastle United have announced they will play a friendly with Serie A team Fiorentina on Saturday 6th August at St. James' Park with a 3:00 pm kick off. That's the weekend before the Premier lague kicks off on the following Saturday when Newcastle will entertain Arsenal at St. James' Park. Fiorentina are located in Florence, [.

Alberto Aquilani has withdrawn from the Italy squad after picking up a head injury in the 3-0 win over Estonia.
The midfielder was replaced in the first half of the Euro 2012 qualifier in Modena on Friday evening.
Aquilani, who has just completed the season on loan at Juventus from Liverpool, was sent to hospital for tests but returned with the rest of the squad to Florence late last night.

Lazio have caused quite an uproar throughout the calcio community yesterday. There are quite a few people confused as to what exactly happened, knowing that it involves two stadiums, Lotito, money, and CONI.

On Friday, Lazio were granted a UEFA license to play European matches in the Stadio Artemio Franchi next season.

Over the years, there have been many reasons for football fans to admire Fiorentina, not least the myriad midfield talents of such creative stars as Giancarlo Antognoni, Roberto Baggio and Manuel Rui Costa and the goalscoring prowess of the prolific Gabriel Batistuta. Others have been attracted to the romance of following a club from Florence, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, while fashion gurus have simply appreciated the distinctive purple of the team's shirts, which inspired the club's Viola nickname.

After a fantastic performance in the derby vs. Inter, Milan had to prove to the calcio world that they were in fact the top side in Serie A this season with an important match in Florence versus Sinisa Mihajlovic's Fiorentina. With Inter defeating Chievo and cutting the lead to -2 again and high-flying Napoli winning in Bologna and reaching Milan in the table, the match against Fiorentina.

Liverpool look to have made a €13M bid for Fiorentina's left winger Juan Manuel Vargas. Reports from Italy suggest the Reds have contacted La Viola to put forward what they hope will be an attractive offer for the Peru international.
However, Vargas is highly rated by Fiorentina and the 27-year-old is valued substantially higher by the Serie A side, meaning Liverpool will likely have to improve on their current bid should they wish to bag the player this summer.

Italy midfielder Alberto Aquilani has admitted that he is uncertain about his club future, revealing there are no concrete signs that he will remain at Juventus once his loan from Liverpool ends.
The 26-year-old's future is up for discussion, with reports suggesting Juve won't bow to the €16m fee being demanded from Anfield, and from the Azzurri camp in Florence, the former Roma star made it clear he doesn't yet know where he will end up next season.

Liverpool tried to sign Fiorentina striker Stevan Jovetic last season, the player's agent has confirmed.
Jovetic is regarded as one of the top young players in Italy after moving to the Viola from Partizan Belgrade for €8 million in 2008, and Fali Ramadani has revealed that the Anfield outfit made enquiries about his client last term.

Giampaolo Pazzini scored against his former employers to give Inter a priceless 2-1 win over Fiorentina in Florence. This home defeat was Fiorentina 1st since October. This fixture was re-arranged from week 19 after Inter World Club Cup commitments. For Inter new signing Yuto Nagatomo was given his 1st start at left back and Dejan Stankovic returned from injury.

"Mmm, tastes like chicken" Andrea Biondi, who plays (or used to play) for Florence-based amateur side Albereta '72, has been banned for 20 long months for the paltry crime of trying to force-feed a referee his own whistle. After being red-carded during Albereta's recent 2-2 draw with Sancat for verbally abusing the referee, Biondi reportedly [.

By Chris Wright

"Mmm, tastes like chicken"

Andrea Biondi, who plays (or used to play) for Florence-based amateur side Albereta '72, has been banned for 20 long months for the paltry crime of trying to force-feed a referee his own whistle.

An amateur Italian footballer who was sent off for abusing a referee and then grabbing the official by the neck while using his hand to push the officials whistle down his throat has been banned for just 20 months.

Andrea Biondi who play's with Abereta 72 in Florence saw red as his team drew 2-2.

Roma will be fully rested heading into their home game against strugglers Brescia, with their game at Bologna on Sunday called off due to bad weather conditions.

Juventus coach Luigi Del Neri goes into Wednesday's match at Palermo under pressure after last weekend's 2-1 defeat to Udinese marked their third defeat in five games.

By Ollie Irish

Carlos Tevez's two daughters are in England, having flown in this week from their home in Argentina. Florence and Katia watched their dad lead Man City to a 4-2 victory against Leicester City in the FA Cup. He was in storming form, though he did have a penalty saved.

According to the Independent, Fiorentina are still hopeful in signing West Ham United midfielder Valon Behrami despite recently having a bid rejected. Fiorentina club administrator Sandro Mencucci said,

"We are hopeful .