 | UEFA 2008| Sports Talk Discuss UEFA 2008 in the OFF-Topic / Misc. forums; Originally Posted by Parmigiano
This is the score of Italy since I remember I watched football.
By he way, Italy ... |
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01-24-2007, 11:10 AM
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#16 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by Parmigiano  This is the score of Italy since I remember I watched football.
By he way, Italy was champion 2 more times, in 1934 and 1938, a grand total of 4 times champions of the world; only Brazil fared better.
1970 - 2nd place (the famous semifinal Italy-Germany 4-3, one of the best matches in history)
1974 - Horrible
1978 - 4th place and best football in the tournament
1982 - Champions
1986 - bad
1990 - 3rd place (lost at penalty kick with Argentina in semifinal)
1994 - 2nd place (lost final match with Brazil at penalty kicks)
1998 - 6? (lost at quarter finals at penalty kicks with France, who won the title)
2002 - horrible
2006 - Champions
Only Brazil did better than this, only Germany and Argentina can be comparable.
I am tired to always hear the same crap that 'when Italy wins is because of luck', and 'Italy plays bad football'; you don't line up this results with luck and bad games.
And after losing a semifinal and a final at the penalty kick lottery (1990 and 1994), after hitting 3 crossbar in 2006 (2 with Germany, 1 with France) I don't want to hear people talking about Italy luck. If we won the lottery this year, it is only fair.
At this point, the more people get pissed when we win, the more I am happy. | Italy is a great team, dont take me wrong. They have much skill and play well and very hard, but Italy is known to dive a lot and fake injuries. Sure everyone in football fakes injuries, but the Italians are famous for it and do it way more than everyone else.
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01-24-2007, 02:09 PM
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Country:  | Also i was told italian players find themselves longing for their home when hired by teams outside Italia...italian league is one of the best leagues in the world, but apparently cases of italian football stars playing outside Italia are not common. The record of the italian team can certainly indicate they do not need to play abroad to come up with a winning team though.
Is it true the few italian football stars currently playing outside Italia is because of a case of massive italian style corruption involving team owners, referees and players?
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01-24-2007, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Udet Also i was told italian players find themselves longing for their home when hired by teams outside Italia...italian league is one of the best leagues in the world, but apparently cases of italian football stars playing outside Italia are not common. The record of the italian team can certainly indicate they do not need to play abroad to come up with a winning team though.
Is it true the few italian football stars currently playing outside Italia is because of a case of massive italian style corruption involving team owners, referees and players? | It is that way all over the world though. Players from Italy, Germany, France, England, Spain, Brazil, USA....
They all go international so that they can compete on different levels and raise there stakes.
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01-25-2007, 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Udet Also i was told italian players find themselves longing for their home when hired by teams outside Italia...italian league is one of the best leagues in the world, but apparently cases of italian football stars playing outside Italia are not common. The record of the italian team can certainly indicate they do not need to play abroad to come up with a winning team though. | I think you confuse Italian with Bazilians here... The stereotype of 'homesick star' is the Brazilian champion who in the cold european winter has 'saudade' for the sunny Brazil and does not return from Xmas vacation 
About going abroad, players goes where money is. Italian league pays quite well, so there are many more foreign players coming here than Italians going abroad.
In recent years top English and Spanish clubs started to shop for Italian players. Quote:
Originally Posted by Udet Is it true the few italian football stars currently playing outside Italia is because of a case of massive italian style corruption involving team owners, referees and players? |
This is partially true: it is a very specific case, not a 'massive' thing.
One of the major teams (Juventus) got penalized for something attempted in the past years by a couple of managers (there was some detailed explanation in the World Champ thread) and sentenced to play in B league for 2007.
Of course, other teams ran to shop for the best players at bargain price: some went to other Italian teams (like Ibrahimovic), a couple to other European teams (like Cannavaro).
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03-25-2007, 01:06 PM
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Country: | Germany beat Czech 2-1 in a very very strong showing by the German side. The game was a good game overall though.
England was only able to tie Israel though. I think that England is going to have problems this year and next year.
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11-03-2007, 03:08 PM
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Portugal dives a lot worse than Italy does also.
As for that video, well it cant be the Italian team as the Italian team does not have any black players.
IF anything it could be a joke played on Portugal. | |
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11-04-2007, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Frankster_P Ballack dives like a U boat. lol | You are full of it.... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Fanskter_P As for that video, well it cant be the Italian team as the Italian team does not have any black players.
IF anything it could be a joke played on Portugal. | You are the only one that did not see that video for what it was. Ofcourse it was joke!
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