Photo from Guerin Sportivo, July 1993, some glorious Serie A days


The last five days from Sept 6th to Sept 10th have been fruitful for Italian managers.The three i am speaking of have the weighty expectations of soccer mad nations to appease.In Ireland Giovanni Trapattoni's side have four of a possible six points as his Irish side beat Georgia 2-1 on Saturday and earned a tough road point against Montenegro. Click to continue reading...

Former Italian National Team manager Roberto Donadoni and former Parma and Chelsea forward, Gianfranco Zola have made the shortlist for new manager at West Ham United. What an amazing change of events, I can remember not to long ago Italian tactics and methods were despised by the English establishment, now it seems there is a shortage of originality in "the [. Click to continue reading...

The best player of these early days of the calcio season is without a doubt Antonio Di Natale. In the first day of the season Di Natale scored 2 wonderful goals vs. Palermo and yesterday he saved Italy with 2 goals vs Cyprus. (That makes 9 goals in 22 appearances now for the Azzurri)

Di Natale is a late bloomer.

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Damien Delaney on life at QPR:
"...There's a lot of pressure...Our owners, they're very successful people in other walks of life, in the businesses that they're involved in, and believe you me they expect an awful lot of success in this one as well. The first day that I signed, I was told in no uncertain terms that promotion was expected and either you're with us or you won't be. Click to continue reading...

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has named a 22 man squad for the August 20 senior international friendly against Norway in Oslo.

The squad includes six players who were not involved in the May internationals against Serbia and Colombia.

Among this group is Liverpool defender Steve Finnan who has responded positively to Trapattoni's request to reverse his decision to retire from international football. Click to continue reading...

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Congratulations to the three. Undoubtedly something QPR will have to get used to!

QPR Official Site - AGYEMANG CALLED UP
Patrick Agyemang has been called up by Ghana for their upcoming friendly against Tanzania (20th August), as well as World Cup qualifiers against Libya (5th September) and Lesotho (12th October). Click to continue reading...

Robbie Keane returned to pre-season yesterday to find that Tottenham have slapped a £20million price tag on his head to ward off strong interest from Liverpool.

Spurs last week rejected a player-plus-cash deal involving Peter Crouch for Keane, whose desire to move has received high-profile backing from Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni. Click to continue reading...

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has urged his star charge Robbie Keane to jump on the chance to join Liverpool this summer.

Tottenham already have their work cut out for them to convince Keane to resist the lure of Liverpool, so they will not be in the least bit happy that his national team manager has so publicly encouraged his player to make a move to 'advance his career'. Click to continue reading...

Ad un passo dall'inferno

L'errore più marchiano di Roberto Donadoni, nel disastroso esordio degli azzurri contro l'Olanda, è stato il difetto del coraggio.

Non se l'è sentita il tecnico della nazionale, di mandare in campo i calciatori più in forma, su tutti Gorsso e pare anche Del Piero.

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Als dicke Überraschung hat Rapid Wien dem österreichischen Meister Red Bull Salzburg zu Ostern 7 Tore geschenkt. Für Giovanni Trapattoni war es die höchste Niederlage überhaupt. Dafür blieb er danach ziemlich gelassen.

Peter Pacult konnte sein Glück erst beim 6:0 fassen, davor hatte man bei ihm bei jedem weiteren Tor den Eindruck er wäre auf der Verliererseite.

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Laim Brady has of course done a fantastic job as the director of Arsenal's academy and now the former Republic of Ireland international wants to do something for his nation. Recently Italian legend Giovanni Trapattoni was appointed as the national coach of Ireland and Brady wants to be part of the Italian's unit. Click to continue reading...

I have absolutely no idea what Giovanni Trapattoni was on about in this press conference from his days as Bayern Munich boss in the '90s, but I'm pretty sure that if he'd continued any longer, his head would have exploded. He can scream far more scarily in a foreign language (to him) than I can [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Giovanni Trapattoni Spontaneously Self-Combusted in the 1990s", url: "http://pitchinvasion. Click to continue reading...