Wanted: One good National Team to coach to Brazil 2014.

Experience: Won World Cup in 2006, Also coached in 2010

So it seems that lately Marcello Lippi has been job hunting via the media. I think his plan was to wait around until Prandelli failed and then jump back in to rescue [read more]

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While some (primarily English) observers consider Brazil's 1982 "jogo bonito" side to be the best team never to win the world cup (which is, in itself, ridiculous. The Grande Inter of the 1960s, just to name one, never won the world cup.

French great Zinedine Zidane and Brazilian icon Ronaldo put on their annual Match Against Poverty event Tuesday, taking on a team of Hamburg SV All-Stars in Germany, and the legend-laden squad did not disappoint.

Ronaldo scored as part of his team's 5-4 victory, with proceeds from the event going toward combating poverty in the Horn of Africa.

Bad news for Italy's coach Cesare Prandelli, as one of his most talented forward could miss Euro 2012, on the next June. Antonio Cassano has suffered a small ischaemia after the winning of AC Milan against Roma last saturday. When it happened the player was with his teamates on the airplane, coming bacfrom Rome to Milan.

Bad news for Italy's coach Cesare Prandelli, as one of his most talented forward could miss Euro 2012, on the next June. Antonio Cassano has suffered a small ischaemia after the winning of AC Milan against Roma last saturday. When it happened the player was with his teamates on the airplane, coming bacfrom Rome to Milan.

Italy have had a solid qualifying campaign for Euro 2012, which has seen the side go unbeaten and concede a mere two goals. The side has also looked impressive in some recent friendlies, beating World Champions Spain 2-1 back in August. Although it could be argued that the Spain squad fielded that day was somewhat experimental, it is still quite an achievement for a national side that only a year previously was in crisis and bereft of confidence.

They are two of the games great executioners. Their preferred methods of delivering the coup de grace could hardly be more different, but they share the same efficient outcome. Back in 1998 it was Fabio Capello's Milan who were on the receiving end of a cold-blooded calcio killing. If you want a masterclass in the respective abilities of Alessandro Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi you need.

Sicilia amara per l'Inter, il Palermo vince 4-3 Di Mauro Giordano L'Inter non perdeva all'esordio di campionato dal 2000, sconfitta per 2-1 contro la Reggina. Sulla panchina nerazzurra c'era Marcello Lippi, che dopo quella prova deludente e la precedente eliminazione subita ai preliminari di Champions League dagli svedesi dell'Helsingborgs venne esonerato.

George Vecsey of the New York Times writes of the challenges facing Jurgen Klinsmann as the new head coach of the US National team.
Klinsmann has the aura of the international soccer celebrity — "sexy," one soccer insider said, meaning attractive, in the public relations sense. But it would have been instructive, in a purely laboratory experiment, to give Bruce Arena or Bradley the German squad of 2006 and see if they could achieve third place.

It is not uncommon to make a coaching change following a World Cup - in looking at the past 2010 FIFA World Cup, the only two managers who had also managed in the previous 2006 FIFA World Cup were that tournament's two finalists - Marcello Lippi (Italy) and Raymond Domanech (France).
Both Lippi and Domanech saw their teams slump badly in the following tournament, not being able to move on from the group stages.

Sorry for the lag in postings. Been busy and away. Logging in remotely now. I had planned a longer post on how much I liked Bradley, why I thought it was time for a change anyway, and why I thought it wouldn't happen regardless. Guess I was wrong. US Soccer sacked Bradley yesterday and apparently will be announcing his replacement today.

The year 2006 was one of contrasting fortunes for Italian football. The Azzurri, led by the dominate displays of captain Fabio Cannavaro and guided by the wise old head of Marcello Lippi, went all the way at the FIFA finals in Germany to win the country's fourth world crown. At exactly the same time, the [.

Manchester Utd are the only unbeaten side in the Champions League this season (nine wins, three
draws).

Barcelona's only defeat in the Champions League this season was in London, when they lost 2-1 at
Arsenal's Emirates Stadium last February.

Barcelona are the best attacking side in this season's competition with 27 goals while Manchester United possess the best defence with four goals conceded in 12 games.

Soccer24 Lippi: I'm ready to come back - http://www.fifa.com/worldfo... 6 hours ago from FIFA.com - News - Comment - Like Marcello Lippi says he is refreshed and ready to return to coaching after the 2006 FIFA World Cup winner took a break following Italy's failed attempt to retain their title in South Africa.

David Sullivan is a tough man to love. He dresses like a sun-dried Stalin. He's got the man-management skills of a frisbee. He wants to see the return of Norks on Sunday. He's friends with David Gold. And, after relegation with West Ham, snarks the Guardian's Fiver, he wants a return to chest-beating, badge-kissing, half-time-riot-act-reading, teacup-smashing Englishness in the Hammers dugout.

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Marcello Lippi, despite a disastrous second spell in charge of the Italian National team, will always be held in high esteem by Italian worldwide. After all, this is the man that nearly immediately redeemed calcio in the face of a match-fixing scandal in the best way possible: by winning the World Cup.

ARTICLE THREE.
Written by Paolo.
IN PRANDELLI WE TRUST!

Following the disastrous showing at the 2010 World Cup, Italian fans young and old were looking for redemption. Their cries for youth on the squad had gone virtually unheralded by Coach Marcello Lippi. And although he had brought them supreme glory in 2006, he was now the scapegoat for all that was wrong with the National Team.

Prandelli's Blueprint Notes on the new Italy is a post from: Just Football

You do remember Italy at World Cup 2010 right? Hopeless. David Swan reports on the newly evolving Azzurri:

There is nothing Italy loves more than being written off, ignored, and forgotten.

Serie A Weekly is proud to present another episode of this beautifully written feature from well known and respected journalist Giancarlo Rinaldi. As the league takes a break to allow the National teams a turn we do the same as we look into the not-so-distant but oh-so-glorious past. We also take a break from the romance of the fixture itself to bring you Giancarlo's personal memories of.

Well that didn't take long, did it? Shortly after you guys thought you had seen the last of me, I rise once again, like Marcello Lippi re-taking over gli azzurri in 2008. But hopefully, you know, I'll be actually successful.

My name is Julian and I'll be taking over blogging duties from Francesco.

I've spent the last decade holding to the dogma that choke holds and headbutts from Gennaro Gattuso are signs of endearment. Somewhere, Marcello Lippi is nodding.

Whatever the case, Joe Jordan comes off as something of a hero after their skirmish last night. Not for standing in the face of a snarling dog, but for taking the lickin' and not launching a backflip into triple lutz on his way to the patented stop, drop and roll that most footballers employ when scraped with a nail.

Sampdoria vs Genoa: The Derby Della Lanterna is a post from: Just Football

Serie A, after several years of Inter domination, is unusually competitive this season. However, despite some big games for the main contenders, the biggest match of the week involves two mid-table teams.

This Wednesday sees Sampdoria and Genoa play each other in the Genoa Derby, known in Italy as the Derby Della Lanterna, literally 'The Derby of the Lantern,' in reference to the city's lighthouse.

Some of the less heralded teams in the Italian top flight are also getting into the act. Sebastian Giovinco is having a breakthrough season with Parma, while Davide Santon will now get first team football each and every week with Cesena. The young talents that Italy has to offer are finally getting opportunities to showcase their ability, something that should be very exciting for fans on the.

This season was something of a new era for Sardinian side Cagliari, who lost coach Massimiliano Allegri to Milan after a successful two year spell in charge. Under the guidance of the man who won the Coach of the Year award in each of his two seasons at the Stadio Sant'Elia, they had comfortably retained their Serie A status and done so playing a high quality brand of attacking football.

Chances are if you love Serie A then you keep up with the Italian National Team, or gli Azzurri. The national team has a long history on the national stage. Italy has won the World Cup tournament 4 times, only second to Brazil's five time championship record. The names Giuseppe Meazza, Alessandra Del Piero, Dino Zoff and Paolo Rossi have all worn the blue jersey at one time.

01.01.2011 - Mourinho fue elegido "Hombre del año 2010" por el diario deportivo italiano "La Gazzetta dello Sport", por sobre Rafa Nadal y Sebastián Vettel (segundo y tercero).
El diario denota la excepción por cuanto es la primera vez en 33 elecciones anuales que es premiado un entrenador, incluso habiendo visto las performances de Enzo Bearzot y Marcello Lippi ("i condottieri delle Italie mondiali") y explica que cuando se selecciona un símbolo se dejan de lado las emociones.