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Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini: “It was important to get off to a good start” after defeating Northern Ireland

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Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini with a positive kickoff for the World Cup Qatar qualification defeating Northern Ireland on Thursday 25 March 2021.   Mancini with 23 unbeaten games. Italy wins in their first Group C match defeating Northern Ireland with a 2-0. Mancini saying at the end of the game that Italy could have scored more goals in the second half.

FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Result ITALY 2 – 0 NORTHERN IRELAND, Thursday 25 March 2021

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👉 Italy Squad list

Goalkeepers: Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);

Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Gian Marco Ferrari (Sassuolo), Alessandro Florenzi (Paris Saint Germain), Manuel Lazzari (Lazio), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Rolando Mandragora (Torino), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Matteo Ricci (Spezia), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Roberto Soriano (Bologna), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain);

Attackers: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Vincenzo Grifo (Friburgo), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli).

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👉 Italy National Team Schedule

Friday 26 March
11:00 – Training (behind closed doors) (Stadio Tardini, Parma)
12:30 – Press conference – player (Stadio Tardini, Parma)

Saturday 27 March
10:30 – Departure from Parma to Sofia
11:00 – Press conference – Bulgaria (Boyana National Football Center)
11:30 – Training – Bulgaria (first 15 minutes open to the press) (Boyana National Football Center)
18:00 – Press conference – ITALY (Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia)
18:30 – Training – ITALY (first 15 minutes open to the press) (Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia)

Sunday 28 March
20:45 Bulgaria vs. ITALY (Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia). Post-match press conference

Monday 29 March
11:30 – Training (behind closed doors)

Tuesday 30 March
10:45 – Departure from Sofia to Vilnius
16:30 – Press conference – Lithuania (LFF Stadium, Vilnius)
17:00 – Training – Lithuania (first 15 minutes open to the press) (LFF Stadium, Vilnius)
17:30 – Press conference – ITALY (LFF Stadium, Vilnius)
18:00 – Training – ITALY (first 15 minutes open to the press) (LFF Stadium, Vilnius)

Wednesday 31 March
20:45 – Lithuaniua vs. ITALY (LFF Stadium, Vilnius). Post-match press conference followed by return to respective clubs

 

FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Result ITALY 2 – 0 NORTHERN IRELAND, Thursday 25 March 2021

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66% Ball Possession ITALY and 34% Ball Possession NORTHERN IRELAND

    Italy 2 – 0 Northern Ireland

14′ Domenico Berardi
38′ Ciro Immobile

Italy defeating Northern Ireland winning the FIFA World Cup Qualifying Matchday 1 on Thursday 25 March 2021 at the Ennio Tardini Stadium.   Italy extending their unbeaten record reaching 23 with 16 wins and 7 draws. Highlight of the match including Leonardo Bonuccing making his 100th appearance with the Italian team.

Italy with a positive result and the victory giving a boost to the morale of the team ahead of Matchday 2 away game against Bulgaria on Sunday 28 March. Italy in Group C is with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2. Italy and Switzerland having 3 points each.   Well done for the Italian National team, an outstanding ovation! Bulgaria defeated by Switzerland with a 1-3.

A moment of silence before the game in honor of Pietro Anastasi, Mauro Bellugi, Mario Corso, Pierino Prati and Paolo Rossi.

Italy opening the score in the 14th minute. Forward Domenico Beradi defeating Northern Ireland goalkeeper with a left footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Alessandro Florenzi.


Way to go for Berardi being the first player to score in three consecutive games in the Roberto Mancini’s Era!!

Italy increasing the score for the 2-0 in the 38th minute. King “Lazio” forward Ciro Immobile scoring with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by forward Lorenzo Insigne.


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Italy lineup against Northern Ireland

Italy and AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma

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FIFA World Cup Qualifying
Matchday 1

Italy 2 – 0 Northern Ireland
Thursday 25 March 2021
Ennio Tardini Stadium
Parma, Italy

20:45

Referee: Ali Palabiyik (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Kerem Ersoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Serkan Olguncan (TUR)
Fourth Official: Halis Özkahya (TUR)
Referee Assessor: Sandor Piller (HUN)

Goals: 14′ Domenico Berardi, 38′ Ciro Immobile

Official lineups – formations – tabellino:

 

Front Pages, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Thursday 25 March 2021

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Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Thursday 25 March 2021.

La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 25 March 2021.


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Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 25 March 2021.


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Tutto Sport, Front Page, Thursday 25 March 2021.


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The return of Zlatan

Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden in 2004

  • Zlatan Ibrahimovic has come out of international retirement
  • The 39-year-old’s target is to fire Sweden to World Cup qualification
  • We spotlight Zlatan with quotes, trivia, stats and golazos

“A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching,” declared football’s most charismatic performer in November 2013.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic had bagged a brilliant brace for Sweden. Cristiano Ronaldo had nevertheless gone one better to ensure Portugal won their playoff for a place at Brazil 2014.

Ibrahimovic duly retired from international football, aged 34, after UEFA EURO 2016. The FIFA World Cup™ had, seemingly, seen the last of a player more polarising than the Vuvuzela.

Zlatan, however, doesn’t do scripts. The 39-year-old recently announced he was returning to the Sweden fold for Qatar 2022 qualifying – and like only he could.

When Zlatan made his Sweden debut…

Date: 31 January 2001

  • Wikipedia had been launched two weeks earlier.
  • Camera phones didn’t exist in Europe. The Xbox and MySpace hadn’t been launched.
  • Independent Woman by Destiny’s Child, It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy, Beautiful Day by U2, Love Don’t Costa a Thing by Jennifer Lopez and Ms. Jackson by Outcast were high on singles’ charts across the globe.
  • Michael Schumacher had just won the first of a record five straight Formula One World Championships.
  • Pedri, of Group B rivals Spain, was almost two years off being born.
  • Films Ocean’s Eleven, The Fast and the Furious and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – the first instalment in the Harry Potter film series – had yet to be released.

Zlatan quotes

“Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”

“First I went left; he did too. Then I went right and he did too. Then I went left again and he went to buy a hot dog.”
On bamboozling Stephane Henchoz during Ajax-Liverpool

“What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”

“Nothing. She already has Zlatan.”
On what he was getting his wife for her birthday

“Lions don’t compare themselves to humans.”
On why he didn’t say himself when asked who was the best striker in the Premier League

Europe’s top-scoring internationals

Ibra and the World Cup

Ibrahimovic played a bit-part role as Sweden reached Korea/Japan 2002 and fell in the Round of 16. He hit eight goals in eight games in Germany 2006 qualifying, but failed to get his first World Cup goal as Lars Lagerback’s team lost to the hosts in the first knockout round. The hulking forward dazzled again in the Brazil 2014 preliminaries, but Portugal pipped Sweden for a ticket to the finals.

Group B (European qualifying for Qatar 2022)
Spain, Sweden, Greece, Georgia, Kosovo

Other key players
Victor Lindelof (Manchester United), Emil Forsberg (Leipzig), Dejan Kulusevski (Juventus), Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad).

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