[GOLEADORES] Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 30th goal of the season and Gonzalo Higuain scored twice in a 5-0 winover Espanyol to move him into third place behind Lionel Messi and Ronaldo in the La Liga scoring race. For video of ZlatanIbrahimovic‘s hat trick for AC Milan and leading scorer updates in Europe’s major […]
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The bounce of beating Italy
[USA CONFIDENTIAL] The sun rose over Genoa and the rest of Italy Thursday, not long after the final whistle blew on a 1-0 defeat inflicted on the Azzurri by theUSA. And life seemed undisturbed. La Gazzetta dello Sport blared a headline best described as innocuous: Italy sunk by the USAAt the Euros it will have […]
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What They're Saying
“I’d like to think that we’re closing the gap and hopefully one day we can do something special.” — Clint Dempsey, whose goalgave the USA a 1-0 win over Italy, its first win over the Azzurri in their 88-year-old series. (AP)
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Heroes of Genoa: USA downs Italy!
[ITALY-USA] The USA celebrated its biggest win of the Jurgen Klinsmann era when it prevailed 1-0 over Italy — a nation the USA had neverbeaten in 10 previous meetings dating back to 1934 — in Wednesday’s friendly in Genoa. The result extended the USA’s win streak to four games and gives Klinsmann a 5-4-1 recordsince […]
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Italy-USA Minute by Minute
[RECAP] The USA beat Italy for the first time in a series that began in 1934 with a 1-0 win in Genoa thanks to a well-constructed goal by Clint Dempsey — his 25th for the USA — in the 55th minute. 79th minute: U.S. sub: BorussiaDortmund II teenager Boyd for Altidore in his U.S. debut. […]
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Klinsmann: USA can give Italy 'a real fight'
[USA MEN] In naming his squad for a friendly against Italy, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said he hoped to build on what the team had achieved inNovember when the Americans beat Slovenia, 3-2, in Ljubljana, to close out their 2011 schedule. That was the team’s best performance under Klinsmann, and snapped a two-game losing streak.Victories […]
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Prandelli selects makeshift starting lineup
[ITALY-USA] World Cup 2006 champions Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo are theonly players in Coach Cesare Prandelli‘s starting lineup for Wednesday’s friendly against the United States in Genoa that started as many as four Euro 2012qualifiers last year. Both forwards, Sebastian Giovinco and Alessandro Matri, and two of the defenders,Andrea Barzagli and Angelo Ogbonna, did […]
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Big names absent from Azzurri frontline
[ITALY SPOTLIGHT] The USA isn’t the only team hobbling. Italy will be without all its big-name strikers for Wednesday’sfriendly in Genoa. American-born Giuseppe Rossi (knee injury) and Antonio Cassano (heart ailments) both face long-termlayoffs. Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, the bad boy of Italian soccer, is “a little agitated” for Coach CesarePrandelli‘s liking and wasn’t […]
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Pirlo and Buffon head Azzurri squad
[ITALY-USA] Seven players from Serie A leader Juventus — including World Cup 2006 champions Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo — head the 23-player squad Italy coach Cesar Prandelli named for Wednesday’s friendly against the USA in Genoa(TV: 2:45 pm ET, ESPN, ESPN3.com, Galavision). DEFENDERS: Ignazio Abate (AC Milan), Davide Astori (Cagliari), Federico Balzaretti (Palermo), AndreaBarzagli […]
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Klinsmann sets roster for Italy clash
[USA MEN] Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has called in a 21-man roster with 17 foreign-based and four MLS players for the USA’s friendly against Italyin Genoa on Feb. 29 (TV: 2:45 pm ET, ESPN, ESPN3.com, Galavision). The MLS contingent is comprised of attackers Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle, defenderGeoff Cameron, and goalkeeper Nick Rimando. Mexico-based midfielder […]