World Cup news

World Cup 2010: adidas and FIFA present in Cape Town the ball adidas “JABULANI”, the Official Match Ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. “JABULANI”, whose meaning is “to celebrate” or "to have fun" in isiZulu (one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, an indigenous language), features a South African [...]

1934 World Cup in Italy: on May 27, 1934 starts, in Rome, the second edition of the soccer World Cup. The organization of the second World cup In 1932, in Stockolm, the FIFA chooses Italy as the host country of the popular event, while Sweden and France gave up for the high uncertainty of the [...]

1930 World Cup in Uruguay: at 2PM of July 13th 1930 started the most popular football competition, the World Cup. The organization of this big event needed a great expediture, but six nations candidated themselves as host country. The FIFA, whose President was Jules Rimet, choosed the Uruguay for a reason: the national team of [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: on 4 December 2009, in Cape Town is going to be carried out the final Draw for the 2010 World Cup, where the 32 teams will be splitted in the 8 groups of the final phase. Only 2 days ago we knew the complete list of the 32 teams who [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: only a draw for Italy and Netherland in the first of the two friendly matches pre-World Cup 2010. Italy – Netherland: in Pescara, the Coach Lippi line up the “Azzurri” with a 4-2-3-1. Antonio Candreva debùt for the first time in the national team. Together with him the comeback of [...]

2010 World Cup: tonight Italy will meet Netherland in Pescara for the first of the two friendly matches that start the official training for the South Africa World Cup. Marcello Lippi, for this match, selected two players that will make their debut in the national team (Biondini and Candreva) and some "old" entries. The TM's [...]

World Cup History: the 1994 USA World Cup has been one of the most suffered edition of the football tournament for Italy and Italians. The team coached by Arrigo Sacchi alternated great victories to bad performances. Despiting the final result (Italy lost versus Brasil at the penalties in the final) the italians, and not only [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: In the last match of group qualifiers Italy won 3-2 versus Cyprus thanks to a Gilardino’s hattrick. Argentina won 1-0 in Montevideo and qualifies for the World Cup. The next playoff matches will be played on November, 14th. Italy is a thrill-seeking team: in the last match of World [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Italy played a dramatic game and reached the final phase of the South Africa World Cup. The team coached by Lippi equalised in the last minutes against Ireland and gains the necessary point for qualification. Ireland coached by an historical italian Team [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: Saturday, October 9 2009, at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Italy will play against Ireland (coached by the Italian Trapattoni) in the penultimate match of Group 8 for the World Cup qualification. In Dublin Italy needs just a draw to get the point needed for the qualification to [...]

World Cup: Zakumi is the name of the World Cup mascot. The World Cup 2010 will be the first to run off in Africa. The nice leopard has courios green hair (like the soccer field). It has been created by Andries Odendaal, from Città del Capo, while its fancy dress has been created by Cora [...]