Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Surviving champion Lazio at San Siro Arrested



Start unsatisfactory must be accepted by the Serie A champions AC Milan. In the 2011-2012 season the first game, they must be willing to hold Lazio. Sadly, this happens at home, the Stadio San Siro Milan, Saturday, 10/09/2011.

Status as a guest does not discourage Lazio to demolish Milan. In fact, Biancoceleste able to excel in advance through beautiful action of their new striker, Miroslav Klose. Starting from a measured pass from Stefano Mauri, the German national team veteran striker was able to outwit Alessandro Nesta with beautiful control, until finally able to conquer Cristian Abbiati in the 12th minute it.

Winning one goal only made Lazio increasingly indiscriminate attacks. Exactly nine minutes later, their other new striker, Djibril Cisse, became the second person that is able to vibrate the Milan goal nets. Milanisti ball fell silent when French striker's header in the received Uman Stefano Mauri was denied by Abbiati and able to make the visitors two goals.

Slowly but surely, the Rossoneri finally got up. Milan should at least be grateful to Antonio Cassano ciamik appearance in this first round. One assist and one goal donated the Italian national team player.

In the 29th minute, after doing the bait with Alberto Aquilani, Cassano send feedback matured into the goal mouth. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was awake at last openly breaking goal Lazio. Although Cassano slightly offside position when receiving feedback from Aquilani, but the referee still endorse these goals and Milan they cut the gap to 1-2.

Score did not last long. Interval of four minutes later, Antonio Cassano finally become the player that is able to equalize. Although not so high, because kejeliannya looking for a position in receiving feedback corner kick from Alberto Aquilani, Cassano able to score through the header. The score to 2-2 until the whistle is to survive the first round in the ring.

In the second half, trading attacks from both teams still continues. An interesting action carried out Cassano from the right side Lazio defense. Unfortunately, if it were not for goalposts, Cassano could have been able to score his second goal in the 62nd minute.

Milan almost back breaking goal by Cisse in the 64th minute. After a successful trick Abbiati duel meet at the ball, Cisse could have made his team back ahead. However, thanks to the alertness of Alessandro Nesta, Lazio golden opportunity had failed goal to fruition.

Also never get a goal, both teams began to rotate players in the 68th minute. Lazio striker put their fresh, Alvaro González to replace Miroslav Klose. While Milan include Antonio Nocerino as a replacement for Alberto Aquilani.

Massimiliano Allegri back to substitutions in the 75th minute, by entering Alexandre Pato and pulled out Kevin-Prince Boateng, who was slightly injured. Milan's attack does look more bite, and Pato also had a golden chance in injury time. However, this 2-2 score lasted until the fight was over.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Italy win away from qualification UERO 2012



Italy can qualify for the European Championship with a win over Slovenia on Tuesday, although coach Cesare Prandelli is still unsatisfied with his squad.

Italy struggled to beat the Faeroe Islands 1-0 on Friday, with many of the Azzurri appearing out of condition due to a players' strike that postponed the opening weekend of Serie A.

"Evenings like those help you understand your limits and mistakes," Prandelli said. "We're still not a solid squad."

Still, Italy hold a commanding eight-point lead over Slovenia and Serbia in Group C and need only two points from their remaining three matches to qualify for next year's tournament in Poland and Ukraine.

It was little more than a year ago that the Azzurri were embarrassed with a first-round elimination from the World Cup, after which Prandelli replaced Marcello Lippi.

Of the more than 50 teams in Euro 2012 qualifying, Italy have allowed the fewest goals — one.

The only player to score against the Azzurri in seven matches was Sergei Zenjov during Italy's 2-1 win over Estonia a year ago in their first qualifier under Prandelli.

Since Fabio Cannavaro retired, Inter Milan's Andrea Ranocchia has taken over as Giorgio Chiellini's partner at centre-back.

"Let's not talk too much about that, or watch and we could allow a goal Tuesday," Prandelli said.

Prandelli was more concerned with the attack, which struggled after Antonio Cassano's early goal over the Faeroes.

"We had never faced a squad that kept 10 players in 36 meters (yards)," Prandelli said. "That's sort of like what happens when Serie A squads train with amateur sides on Thursdays. But what will happen when we fall behind a goal and have to come back against a big squad that hunkers down to defend a lead?"

"We entered the area six times and passed the ball. But when you get in that position you've got to shoot, not give it up," Prandelli added.

Against Slovenia, Italy's attack will face a familiar face in Udinese goalkeeper Samir Handanovic, who stood out in a recent Champions League play-off loss to Arsenal.

Slovenia, one of Italy's northern neighbours, are still holding on to a slight chance of qualifying.

"It's not over yet," Slovenia coach Matjaz Kek said following a 2-1 loss at home to Estonia on Friday. "This will be a huge effort for our team but we have nothing to lose."

Italy beat Slovenia 1-0 in March in Ljubljana when Brazilian-born midfielder Thiago Motta scored on his competitive debut.

This match will be played at Florence's Artemio Franchi stadium, where Prandelli coached Fiorentina for five seasons before taking over the national team last year.

"Qualifying in Florence would be magical, especially for me," the coach said.

However, sour relations between Fiorentina fans and club captain Riccardo Montolivo - a key midfielder for the national team - as well as Prandelli, could make for a tense night.

The only line-up changes Prandelli appears to be considering are at full-back, with Mattia Cassani and Federico Balzaretti possibly replacing Christian Maggio and Domenico Criscito.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

U.C. Sampdoria Genoa fantasy kits

Full name: Unione Calcio Sampdoria, SpA
City: Genoa
League: Serie A
Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Fouded: 1946
Shirt sponsor: ERG mobile
Kit manufacturer: Kappa

When I saw the theme for next competition on Mockups Comunity's site, I signed in immediately, because I liked always the Sampdoria's kits. It was a bit easier because i made before a good kappa template. Classic approach, as it should be for Sampdoria, blue shirt with a horizontal white band containing a black and a red stripe inside. The Kappa logos are asymmetrically arranged on the shirt and shorts also. The shorts and the socks are white.
The away kit is opposite to the home one. The band on the shirt is present only on the front and is positioned a bit upper.
The third kit is all black (two shades of black), with blue trims. Also on the front of the shirt is present the white-red-black feature.
As the mandatory sponsor for the competition is Ferrari, I post also the two kits, home and away. Also the competition patch is present on the left sleev of the shirt. The rest of the design is the same.
The away kit made for the competition is a mix from the away and third. The shirt is the same, white , but the shorts and the socks are black with blue and white features.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Copa Do Mundo de Mockups kits

With great joy I present my participation to Copa Do Mundo de Mockups, organised by a kits design comunity called Mockups de Camisas de Futebol.
Here is the link for the blog were the competition was hosted: http://copademockups.blogspot.com/2010/07/final-copa-do-mundo-de-mockups.html
The theme of the competition was the World Cup 2010, and I had the task to make the home and away kit for Italy.
The design is the transposition of this one made for the World Cup project . The presentation was mandatory on the template used by all the 32 participants.
http://footballkitsdesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/italy-world-cup-2010-fantasy-kits.html
The competition was based on the real World Cup game style, 8 groups with 4 teams each. In every group the teams are played against each other, and the votes of the 32 participants represented the final score for every game. After the group stage followed the las of 16, the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. After the semi-finals were played, the two finalist had the task to made the kits for one of the two real finalist (Spain and Netherlands), the same for third place play-off game (Uruguay and Germany). Therefore I made the designs for Spain.
This is a version for the away kit that was not posted, I was not sure wich of the two away kit to chose.
This is the original design on wich is based the one used in the Final.
http://footballkitsdesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/spain-world-cup-2010-fantasy-kits.html
And here is the stamp wich shows that I won the competition.
It was an interesting competition with lots of good designs. I want to thank to the organizers and to the competitors to for choosing my designs as the winner. Also about this competition and other news and information about kits designs you can read (if you understand Portuguese) here:
http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=44001

Thursday, June 24, 2010

World Cup 2010 Group F games 5 and 6

The fifth game from the Group F was Slaovakia vs Italy
and the sixth game was Paraguay vs New Zealand
The table for Group F:

1. Paraguay .................... 5p ... 3 1 2 0 ... 3-1 ... +2

2. Slovakia ..................... 4p ... 3 1 1 1 ... 4-5 ... -1
3. New Zealand .............. 3p ... 3 0 3 0 ... 2-2 ... 0
4. Italy ........................... 2p ... 3 0 2 1 ... 4-5 ... -1

Sunday, June 20, 2010

World Cup 2010 Group F games 3 and 4

The games played in Group F in the second round were Slovakia vs Paraguay
and Italy vs New Zealand

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

World Cup 2010 Group F - games 1 and 2

The Group F has started with Italy vs Paraguay
and New Zealand vs Slovakia

Friday, June 11, 2010

World Cup 2010 Group F plate

The Group F plate has the Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia kits.

Monday, May 3, 2010

A.S. Roma fantasy kits

Full name: Associazione Sportiva Roma SpA
City: Roma
League: Serie A
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Rome
Fouded: 1927
Shirt sponsor: WIND
Kit manufacturer: Kappa

This is a requested design for A.S. Roma, team that almost won the Serie A this year. The home kit is dark red shirt with orange trims and neck, white short and black socks. The Kappa logos on the shoulders and sides of the short are orange.
A version used in the past as the first choice kit is all dark red with orange trims. This version is suitable for the derby games vs S.S. Lazio or Juventus.
The away kit is white shirt and socks, dark red short. The trims and logos are orange like on the home kit. This version can be used vs A.C. Milan or Bologna.
An all white version of the away kit as it can be used vs Inter, Atalanta or Cagliari.
The third kir is predominant black with dark gray front of the shirt. Usualy is used as European kit.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Juventus F.C. Torino fantasy kits

Full name: Juventus Football Club
City: Torino
League: Serie A
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico di Torino
Fouded: 1897
Shirt sponsor: NEW HOLLAND
Kit manufacturer: NIKE

Another classic design from the new series, Juventus Football Club from Torino. Well known black and white stripes on the shirt, white short and socks, or black short and socks (as it is presented in the second version of the home kit).
This is also a usual combination for Juve, with black short and socks, can be used in games vs S.S. Lazio.
The away kit is all blue with two horizontal bands on the shirt and sleeves, one yellow and one dark blue. This colour combination integrate the sponsor logo in the design.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Italy World Cup 2010 fantasy kits

Name: Italy
Federation: Italian Football Federation
Confederation: UEFA (Europe)
Founded: 1898
Kit manufacturer: puma

The team of Italy no need other presentation than the four stars on their crest, representing the four World Cup titles won so far, and this year they must defend the last title. This is my design for Italy, simple, as they use (excepting the sky blue and brown experience). It is based on different shades of blue (panels and stiches) and a touch of gold on trims, numbers, name and puma logos.
Against teams wearing all white, Italy use to play in similar version as this one, all blue.
The away kit, or the second choice is white colour shirt and socks with blue or white short.Italy use to have two sets of kits, blue and white, and they combine the colours as it is needed.

Friday, January 8, 2010

SSC Napoli fantasy kits (adidas)

Following the request of Andrea try something else for SSC Napoli. This template I made for Ajax, then adapted to Panathinaikos and AC Milan.
Second variant for home kit with blue short.
For the away kit I added a design on the back to highlight the white three stripes.An all white version for games vs Inter or Atalanta.At the third kit changed the shade of red, and used white colour for stripes, instead of light blue.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

SSC Napoli fantasy kits

Full name: Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli SpA
City: Napoli
League: Serie A
Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Fouded: 1926
Shirt sponsor: Lete
Kit manufacturer: nike (fantasy)

The business, holidays and some health problems kept me away from designing, but now I'm back. I start with the requested teams and here is SSC Napoli kits with Nike instead of macron. The home kit is traditional sky blue and white.
An all blue version of the home kit.
The away kit is opposite to the home one.
All white version of the away kit.
For the third kit choose a darker shade of red to assort with the dark blue short and the sky blue features on the kit. This kit is usable against Lazio or Juventus.

Monday, November 2, 2009

A.C. Milan fantasy kits (updated)

I wasn't 100% satisfied with the A.C. Milan kit, and after a few suggestions, that confirmed my thoughts, I changed the three stripes position on the sleeves. By using smaller stripes and placing them on the trims I obtained a clearer shirt, without interrupting the red-black stripes. The short and the socks were not changed at all.

The position of the three stripes on the trims was inspired from my Ajax design, and can be seen better on the away kit and on the third kit. The three stripes on the back were left white to follow the rest of the kit.

Friday, October 30, 2009

A.C. Milan fantasy kits

Full name: Associazione Calcio Milan SpA
City: Milano
League: Serie A
Stadium: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
Fouded: 1899
Shirt sponsor: bwin
Kit manufacturer: adidas

The revised version of the A.C. Milan kit was changed with a new design, as the first one was inappropriate. So this is a more classic design with red and black stripes on shirt, white short and black socks.
A second version of the home kit whit black short and black socks, used in games vs S.S. Lazio, Napoli, Sampdoria or other teams with white kits.
Another version of home kit with white short and socks, used against the rival Internazionale.The away kit is all white. I used the same collar (red/black) as at the home shirt.
The third kit is all black, used in games with teams that have red colour on the shirt.