ITALIA - Olympic Thread

[acmilan101]

ITALIA

This is the thread for Italy's Athens 2004 Olympic campaign. Everyone is welcome to enter their predictions and comment on the results of the Italian's team perfomances, or even the other teams in Italy's group.

GROUP B
Ghana
Italy
Japan
Paraguay

Match Schedule
12th August
Ghana vs. Italy (DRAW 2-2)

15th August
Italy vs. Japan (ITALY WIN 3-2)

18th August
Italy vs. Paraguay

My predictions
Ghana vs. Italy 1-2
Italy vs. Japan 3-0
Italy vs. Paraguay 1-1

SQUAD
Marco Amelia (Livorno)
Andrea Barzagli (Chievo)
Daniele Bonera (Parma)
Cesare Bovo (Roma)
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus)
Daniele De Rossi (Roma)
Simone Del Nero (Brescia)
Marco Donadel (Parma)
Matteo Ferrari (Parma)
Andrea Gasbarroni (Palermo)
Alberto Gilardino (Parma)
Giandomenico Mesto (Reggina)
Emiliano Moretti (Parma)
Angelo Palombo (Sampdoria)
Ivan Pelizzoli (Roma)
Giampiero Pinzi (Udinese)
Andrea Pirlo (Milan)
Giuseppe Sculli (Chievo)

Reserves:
Federico Agliardi (Brescia)
Alberto Aquilani (Roma)
Rolando Bianchi (Cagliari)
Alessandro Potenza (Inter)

 

[Virgo]

I think you'll win all 3 matches... Paraguay just got trashed by Portugal in a friendly 5 - 0, and the italian olympic team is better than ours, so I don't think you'll have any problems.

 

[acmilan101]

That's good to know.

 

[Stylus]

Gilardino Pirlo and Ferrari are the starts of our team

 

[italianstyle87]

couldda put this in the Azzurri thread, but meh

italy should really win this as Euro U/21 champs, not saying there is no other quality teams, but Italy should accept nothing less than gold

 

[santino]

our biggest rivalry will most likely be argentina, but we can beat them......and seeing as how there is a new wave of threads for the 04/05...should we make a new one for the azzurri?

 

[mark77]

Any audio link to the game?

Thanks

 

[#1 Stunna]

i dont know if Paraguay had their 2 strikers (Cardozo and Santa Cruz) for that match vs Portugal...

if they didnt then watch out for Paraguay, they'll give u a run for your money Cardozo was the South American player of the year 3 years ago and 2 years ago... and he scored 51 goals in one year. And Santa Cruz is Santa Cruz. One of the most lethal attacking duos in all of South America.

but if they did have them for the match vs Portugal... go easy on them

 

[Virgo]

the lineup of the team that we played against was:

PARAGUAY:
Barreto
Martinez
Devaca
Gamarra
Benitez
Barreto
Enciso
Cristaldo
Figueiredo
Barreiro
Cardozo

 

[mark77]

Italia: (4-5-1)

18 Ivan Pelizzoli; 5 Daniele Bonera, 4 Matteo Ferrari, 13 Andrea Barzagli, 3 Emiliano Moretti, 7 Giampiero Pinzi, 6 Daniele De Rossi, 8 Angelo Palombo, 10 Andrea Pirlo, 11 Giuseppe Sculli, 9 Alberto Gilardino.

Ghana: (4-2-3-1)

1 George Owu, 3 Baffour Gyan, 4 Emmanuel Osei, 5 John Mensah, 15 Daniel Coleman, 6 Emmanuel Pappoe, 10 Stephen Appiah, 12 Asamoah Gyan, 14 John Pantsil, 16 William Kwabena Tiero, 17 Yussif Chibsah.


0-1 Italy-Ghana

Pappoe 35min

 

[Ubik Valis]

2-0 Ghana!

Holy sh!t what a shot.


Appiah, let's hope he does a few of these for Juve.

 

[rony31]

haha, COME ON GHANA!


no, I'm not anti-Italy, I just have some Ghanian friends and I'm talking to one right now

 

[mark77]

Originally posted by Dragan T
2-0 Ghana!

Holy sh!t what a shot.


Appiah, let's hope he does a few of these for Juve.

Appiah(46min) is having the game of his life. He dribbled passed Barzagli and Pirlo and shot a cracker passed Pelizzoli .

:Bow: Appiah

For you guys that don't know, Appiah plays for Juventus.

 

[ninobomba]

Originally posted by Virgo
I think you'll win all 3 matches... Paraguay just got trashed by Portugal in a friendly 5 - 0, and the italian olympic team is better than ours, so I don't think you'll have any problems.

dude that doesnet mean anything....

its soccer anything can happen. Paraguay is beating japan

your tieng iraq i think you will win but u cant compare how good a team is with results..

and it was just a friendly

 

[Virgo]

:Bow: Appiah

 

[Ubik Valis]

Originally posted by mark77


For you guys that don't know, Appiah plays for Juventus.

Exactly.

Yash will be pleased and mad at the same time.

He's usually only mad.

 

[mark77]

hehe

Somebody should post the link of Appiah's goal.

 

[ninobomba]

was it good?

 

[mark77]

Gentile should put in Gasbarroni and Chiellini.

 

[mark77]

Originally posted by ninobomba
was it good?

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