The stars aligned perfectly for the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as they were able to name former Juventus boss Antonio Conte as the new head coach of the Italian national team. Conte replaces Cesare Prandelli who resigned at the end of the World Cup finals in Brazil after seeing his Azzurri side fail to progress […]
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Brazil and Colombia will meet in the World Cup quarter-finals on Friday but they both got their with two very different performances. Brazil looked uninspired against Chile and were lucky to be a their South American rivals 3-2 on penalties after drawing 1-1 after extra time. Gonzalo Jara hit the post with the decisive kick, […]
Uruguay and Liverpool were both stunned today when FIFA announced that Luis Suarez had been suspended from all football-related activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini. The Premier League’s player of the year will miss the rest of the World Cup and well as at least the first nine games of the […]
Well that did not take long. Just minutes after seeing his team lose to to Uruguay on Tuesday and fail to qualify for the knockout stage of the World Cup, Italian coach Cesare Prandelli resigned. Prandelli stepped down in his post-match news conference. “Above and beyond, at the end of the match, I spoke to […]
Diego Godin’s late goal gave Uruguay a 1-0 win over 10-man Italy, a result that saw them advance to the knockout stages, but the match was overshadowed by an incident in which Luis Suarez took a bite out of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. Suarez, who served lengthy bans for biting opponents while playing for both […]
The headlines might say that Neymar’s two goals helped Brazil come from behind to beat Croatia 2-1 in the opening match of the World Cup, but that is only part of the story. An unimpressive Brazil side were struggling at 1-1 to open up the Croatian defense, when Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura awarded one of […]