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Kickboxer Gets Knocked Out…Of The Ring (Video)
During a kickboxing match in Trieste, Italy, Giuseppe Patane was on the receiving end of several vicious shots. However, many of us are left wondering which shot was the hardest? The deadly left-right-left combo from his opponent, Tadas Jonkus, which knocked him unconscious, or his ensuing spill through the ropes that resulted in him landing [...]
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AC Milan Ties Barca In 90th Minute, Tiziano Crudeli Goes Crazy (Video)
AC Milan and Barcelona faced off in a classic UEFA Champions League group stage match that saw the Italian club take a 1-0 lead thanks to an Alexandre Pato goal less than a minute into the game. However Barcelona would respond with goals from Pedro Rodriguez and David Villa in the 36th and 50th minute, [...]
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Italian Prison Inmates Sure Do Love Mario Balotelli (Video)
Gianluigi Buffon has won eight Serie A goalkeeper of the year awards, three UEFA Team of the Year honors, one European Footballer of the Year award, a Yashin Award, and most importantly, he backstopped the Italian national team to the World Cup title in 2006. Mario Balotelli has won…well, nothing really. So why would Balotelli [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 11th) — España ’82
It was on this day in 1982 that the 1982 World Cup of Soccer finals were played at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain. Italy would go on to claim their third World Cup title with a 3-1 victory over West Germany. Italy finished the round robin stage with three draws, tying them with [...]
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Backspin Turned This Penalty Kick Miss Into A Penalty Kick Goal (Video)
If every soccer goalkeeper would read our blog or take a class in physics, they would all know that a penalty kick isn’t over until the ball has come to a complete stop or is safely cleared from the vicinity of the net. The latest goaltender to learn this lesson was Loris Angeli of Italian [...]
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This Day In Sports History (June 8th) – World Cup 1990
It was on this day in 1990 that the 14th FIFA World Cup began in Italy. Italy became the second nation to host the tournament for a second time, joining Mexico who held the competition in 1970, and again in 1986. The Italians would host the reigning champions Argentina in one semi-final, while the defending [...]
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Chievo’s Marcolini Shows Some Range With 45-meter Goal (Video)
It isn’t often that a misplayed ball just inside your own half of center turns into a goal less than two seconds later, but then again, there aren’t many players with the accuracy and range of Chievo’s Michele Marcolini. During yesterday’s Italian Serie A action, Marcolini was on the receiving end of an errant pass [...]
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Is This Footage Of Kobe Bryant Being Served Paternity Papers Following A Game? (Video)
As the story goes, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was served paternity papers as he made his way to the locker room following a game last month. Now more information is beginning to surface as reports are indicating that Kobe had impregnated a groupie and shipped her off to Italy. Unfortunately for him, she [...]
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Milan And Bari Give Us The Strangest Pre-Match Warm-Ups Ever! (Video)
Talk about confusion. I can only imagine that is what fans at the San Siro were faced with after watching what appeared to be players from AC Milan and Bari taking the pitch for warm-ups and performing some rather strange acts, whether it was dancing, swimming, limboing, or playing frisbee. Despite bearing a striking resemblance [...]
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Owl Kicking, Canine Intruding And Sportsmanship FAIL: Three Soccer Videos You Need To See (Videos)
The day is winding down and I am sitting here with three incredible clips of three unusual incidents from three separate soccer matches. So rather than have you browse through three different posts to see them, why not just stuff them all into a single post? The first comes from Brazil, where a police dog [...]
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Ezequiel Lavezzi Scores An Amazing Goal (Video)
Italian soccer is often criticized for its defensive focus and lack of offensive creativity. However, during yesterday’s game between Napoli and AC Milan, Ezequiel Lavezzi silenced many of those critics with what may be the most creative goal we will see this season in European club competition. Trailing 2-0 and down a man, Napoli was [...]
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Serbian Hooligans Force Euro Qualifying Match Against Italy To Be Suspended (Video)
The Italian national soccer team has been struggling to find victories over the past year, but during a European Cup qualifying match against Serbia on Tuesday, they recorded what may have been their easiest, and most decisive victory in a while. At least we expect them to be rewarded with such a victory after the [...]
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Italian And French Football Clubs Brawl During Not-So-Friendly Friendly
The Italians and the French have never seemed to enjoy each others’ company on the soccer pitch, and that was evident once again when Sardinia’s Cagliari took on Corsica’s Bastia in what was supposed to be a friendly match on Wednesday. Instead, it turned out to be anything but friendly as the teams from the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 9th) – Italy Men’s Soccer Team
It was on this day in 2006 that the finals for the World Cup were held at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. Italy defeated France in penalty kicks to capture their fourth World Cup title. France was awarded a penalty kick just seven minutes into the match and French captain Zinedine Zidane capitalized to give [...]
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Blonde Flashes Camera To Help Cheer Up Italians (Video)
Italians were dealt a devastating blow last week when their international soccer team was bounced from the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Slovakia in their final match of the group stage. The loss left many of the country’s die-hard soccer fans in mourning, but there was one special blonde that [...]
