Here is Italy official starting lineup with Head Coach Cesare Prandelli choosing a 3-5-2 formation against Uruguay losing the match Italy 0 – 1 Uruguay on Tuesday 24 June 2014. Italy eliminated. What went wrong? Who disappointed you the most and why?
ITALY (3-5-2): Gianluigi Buffon; Giorgio Chiellini, Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli; De Sciglio, Claudio Marchisio, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Verratti, Darmian; Ciro Immobile, Mario Balotelli.
Hello my friends. I usually greet you with a “good morning.” Today, believe me, it’s not a really good morning. It’s just a nightmare awakening to a crude reality. I have barely slept watching all news online on the elimination of Italy, out of the World Cup. Yep, sadly, it is true. Italy eliminated after losing against Uruguay. However, the news going worldwide is on Uruguay “Cannibal” forward Luis Suarez biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini and not even getting a yellow card!!!
Well, guys, to top the whole pizza pie, Head coach Cesare Prandelli resigned right after the game during the press conference and also Abete the president of the Italian Football Federation. Simply put, guys, it is a total failure!!! I agree with Buffon and, wait.. now it seems most players blaming also forward Mario Balotelli… Hum? So, now, allow me to go and prepare a heavy cup of Chamomile tea to calm down.
Here are the front pages from Italy main Sports newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport from Wednesday 25 June 2014
La Gazzetta dello Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Italia go home: A failure
The breakdown
Defeated by Uruguay 1-0. Prandelli and Abete resign
No Alibi, but another Referee Moreno damages us: Marchisio Sent off unfairly, Suarez bites Chiellini
The outburst, the best
The bitterness of Buffon
“We are deservedly out”
The delusion, he isolated himself
The Balotelli disaster
Dumped by the group
The case Suarez
Once again the Cannibal. “He is slimy”
Group C
Colombia fly with Cuadrado
Greece, what a strike.
Argentina at 18 with Nigeria
Today the turn for Messi and Pogba
Market, Juve enjoy
What intrigue Iturbe
Milan pressing, but if Kaka returns?
Violence, the Napoli fan
The drama of Ciro
“He is being kept alive by machines”
Corriere dello Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Zeroed out
-World Cup collapse.
Uruguay eliminate Italy: 1-0 (Godin). Terrible performance, but Marchisio’s sending off weighs heavily.
-The resignations.
Prandelli leaves along with Abete: “It is a failure.” Already looking to the future: Allegri or Mancini.
-The controversy.
Suarez bites Chiellini: “Shame.” Buffon and De Rossi against Balotelli: “Men are needed.”
Tutto Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Tricked by another Moreno: 0-1
Brandelli
Italy go home among chaos: the coach and Abete resign.
Godin and the referee send Uruguay to the round of 16. Suarez bites Chiellini: “Shame! And he sent off Marchisio…” Prandelli: “I don’t steal money.” Everyone against Balotelli.
Move for Iturbe.
Juve-Atletico super battle for Guarin
Kone or El Kaddouri?
Toro close for Benassi. And there is Botta
“What an AC Milan with Pippo!”
Even Pazzini attacks Seedorf
But watch out for the English.
Real: Falcao is the big signing for Ancelotti
It’s official. Italy Head Coach Cesare Prandelli announcing his resignation during the press conference after the World Cup Group D game: Italy 0 – 1 Uruguay. Italy were eliminated ending in third place. Costa Rica and Uruguay pass to the Round of 16. Also, the President of the Italian Football Federation Giancarlo Abete resigns.
“Cesare Prandelli ha comunicato in conferenza stampa di essersi dimesso da Commissario Tecnico della Nazionale”
Here are the declarations made by Prandelli, “I assume the responsibility of the technical project, but it is absurd to remain in ten in a match like this one. You can’t condition a match in this way, the referee ruined it”.
These are the first comments made by Cesare Prandelli a few minutes after the elimination of Italy from the World Cup. Bitterness, anger, disappointment, the face of the head coach is a mix of feelings held back by a sense of diplomacy that wants to explode, while forward Mario Balotelli covers his face with his hands and midfielder Andrea Pirlo is in tears.
Prandelli adding that “It was a well-balanced match. They never took a shot on goal until they scored, we tried to put together scoring occasions, we did what we could, it was even a good match, but the referee ruined everything. When you fight for each ball like Uruguay did, there will be fouls. But they were not bad fouls, and the one made by Marchisio was definitely not one to red-card”.
And now? What about the future for Prandelli? “Now we’ll see. After four years of hard work a red-card decides everything. Now we have to reflect, then we’ll see. We are definitely sorry about being eliminated from a World Cup in this way”.
The athletic training is not in question for Prandelli. “It was good and we proved that today. We were, however, the only team to play in the heat of Manaus and twice at lunch time”.
A few words about Balotelli, substituted in the second half: “I consider him important, but he has to give more guarantees as far as tranquility is concerned. You never really understand whether or not he is serene. I took him out at the end of the first half because he had been yellow-carded and I as afraid of remaining with ten players on the field”.
Good morning my friends. I hope you start a good week, today, Monday. Countdown for Italy most important game to continue their road in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. I am so optimistic with Italy Head Coach Cesare Prandelli seeming to understand now the seriousness of the game and is changing formation! Italy need only a draw against Uruguay to pass to the Round of 16.
Here are the front pages from Italy main Sports newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport from Monday 23 June 2014
La Gazzetta dello Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Monday 23 June 2014
National team: Tomorrow challenges Uruguay
Ciro, it’s your turn
Prandelli has broken the inertia, Italia offensive: In the up front SUper Mario next to Immobile.
with Balotelli .
Will the ex-Granata be the new Schillaci?
The technical focus
The Azzurri duo against Cavani-Suarez.
The Interview
Listen to Recoba: “It will be a match of death.”
Milan 1, the daughter of Berlusconi.”I asked my father for the new stadium”
Barbara Berlusconi: “Balotelli is not irreplaceable”
And on Clarence, “Great comeback, he did well”
Milan 2, He is expected in Italy in the next days
Seedorf wants compensation. He has a legal team
The ex-coach is preparing a battle in court. He will ask the Rossoneri for more money than that which was stipulated in the contract.
Group H, Russia lose with Belgium
Capello in trouble. He will play for everything against Algeria
Group G, it is a 2-2 with USA
Ronaldo move. Varela saves Portugal in the 95th
Corriere dello Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Monday 23 June 2014
World Cup, Ronaldo is almost out.
Portugal get a 2-2 with USA in the 95th minute: A miracle is needed. Capello at risk.
Here they are!
The pair of Balotelli-Immobile against Uruguay.
Prandelli has chosen: tomorrow in the key match the two strikers will play together with Marchisio behind them.
CT, what future? If Italy go out, Cesare could leave.
Alarm in Natal. A sinkhole in the city and chaos in the stadium.
For Brazil it is forbidden to fail with Cameroon
A battle begins on the transfer market.
Barbara challenges Juve: “We are in talks for Iturbe.”
“My father and Galliani are in talks with Verona.” But Agnelli relaunches with Quagliarella and Peluso.
Tutto Sport
Front Page, Prima Pagina
Monday 23 June 2014
“Iturbe speaks to me about Juve.”
Toni reveals the talks with his teammate who is liked by the Bianconeri and AC Milan.
Buffon shouts: “Only heart from Italy.”
The goalkeeper leads the charge in the decisive match with Uruguay: “No more alibis, going out would be a failure. But we can’t have lost our self-esteem like that.”
Immobile alongside Balotelli. Belgium put Capello in trouble. Algeria entertain. Varela saves Portugal with the USA.
Natal alarm amongst snipers and flooding.
Hot week
Ferrante chooses: “Toro, sign Quagliarella.”
The ex-Granata on the after Immobile: “Fabio is a guarantee.”
Listen to Lady B: “Balotelli indispensable? Not anymore.”
Barbara Berlusconi on AC Milan’s plans.
Ucan to Roma to be completed
What a sprint between Sassuolo and Palermo for Cigarini
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Goals: 17′ Olivier Giroud (F), and 18 Blaise Matuidi (F), 40′ M. Valbuena (F), 67′ Karim Benzema (F), 73′ Moussa Sissoko (F), 81′Blerim Dzemaili (S), 87′ Xhaka (S)
France defeating Switzerland with a goleada. France are now leading the group with 6 points and a positive goal difference of +6. There are 6 Italian Serie A players in the World Cup Group E game Switzerland vs France on Friday 20 June 2014 at the Arena Fontanova, Salvador, Brazil.
France: 1 Italian Serie A player with France National Football team:
Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, played all 90 minutes
Switzerland: 5 Italian Serie A players with Switzerland National Football team:
Sassuolo defender Reto Ziegler, did not play, listed among substitutes.
Napoli midfielder Valon Behrami, played 45 minutes and replaced by Dzemaili.
Napoli midfielder Blerim Dzemaili, played 45 minutes after replacing Behrami and scoring a goal in the 81st minute.
Napoli midfielder Gokhan Inler, Switzerland Captain played all 90 minutes
Juventus defender Stephan Lichtsteiner, played all 90 minutes.
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Video, goal by Switzerland and Napoli midfielder Blerim Dzemaili against France.
2014 FIFA World Cup
Group Stage – Group E
Switzerland 2 – 5 France
Friday 20 June 2014
Arena Fonte Nova
Salvador, Brazil
By Anna Italia
