The Azzurri Thread

[Rochester Rhino]

If you didn't know, I make a lot many things with Adobe Photoshop. I now have an on the side job making stuff for cars making graphics on the computer. My first job is to make an Italy one with something to do with EURO. I was wondering if there is a phrase or something that I could put on there.

Like Azzurri, what exactly does that mean, or forza something i dont know i don't speak one bit of italian.

 

[Mikey]

Azzurri means 'blues'.
Forza Italia means 'go Italy'
Ragazzi means 'guys'

'Forza Italia' or 'Viva Italia' or 'Forza Ragazzi' are prob the best phrases

 

[santino]

Originally posted by Mikey
oh, and santino, you mind if i use your italian smilies?

go ahead,all azzurri fans are allowed, there not mine, i got them from Mark77 i think..thanks to mark for them

 

[Rochester Rhino]

thanks a lot Mikey

 

[santino]

rhino, can u show us your work when your done?

 

[modena_10]

someone has to get me in on this sig thing, im still rather new but i would love a nice italian sig for Euro, if someone could help me that would be great

 

[italianstyle87]

go to the sig thread and ask one of the guys over there to make you one, there is a thread there instructing how to to put one on

my euro04 lineup (i dont care who is picked or not, or how the stupid silver fox likes his team)

-----------------GiGi Buffon----------------
Panucci--Cannavaro--Nesta--Zambrotta
-----Camoranesi---Gattuso--------Pirlo---
----------Totti-----------Baggio-------------
-------------------Vieri------------------------

 

[italianstyle87]

Trapattoni Defends His Choices

15/19/2004. The day after the much criticized Trapattoni choice of leaving Gilardino behind and taking Di Vaio to the Euro 2004, the Italian national team coach has given his reasons for such a decision.

Trapattoni declared: "In Gilardino's role I have Vieri and Corradi. His current position is with the Under 21 team. Also two years ago Hubner was 2nd top scorer but I cannot choose on the enthusiasm wave of the last three months. Gilardino has the qualities and will find space in the national team, but while he was still emerging, we were qualifying with an exact project. I did not choose Di Vaio because there's a Juve line."


this guy is unbelievable, if you dont want to go on the "recent enthusiasm wave" then choose the greatest italian footballer in history probably in baggio, the complete opposite to a recent wave

two years ago hubner was the top scorer and u didnt take him
LEARN from your MISTAKES trap, u failed in WC2002, so the worst thing to do is refer to that as a point of reasoning

man i hate this guy

 

[italianstyle87]

http://www.soccerage.com/en/13/v0619.html
this article is BRILLIANT

For a player who scored 23 goals in the Serie A this season – more than Marco Di Vaio and Bernardo Corradi put together – to be left in the Under 21 side because he is "young and inexperienced" is, on Trapattoni's part, nothing short of disgraceful.

 

[modena_10]

Originally posted by italianstyle87
http://www.soccerage.com/en/13/v0619.html
this article is BRILLIANT

completely agree, well said too

 

[mark77]

Official numbers

1 Buffon
2 Panucci
3 Oddo
4 Ferrari
5 Cannavaro
6 Zanetti
7 Del Piero
8 Gattuso
9 Vieri
10 Totti
11 Corradi
12 Toldo
13 Nesta
14 Fiore
15 Favalli
16 Camoranesi
17 Di Vaio
18 Cassano
19 Zambrotta
20 Perrotta
21 Pirlo
22 Peruzzi
23 Materazzi

 

[italianstyle87]

vieri 9???
thats interesting

 

[modena_10]

indeed, i thought he would have went with the traditional 21,

but im glad to see that cassano got 18, pirlo 21

its all good

 

[jani]

yeh.. Everyone looks to have choose their club numbers.. Cept Cannavaro.. Vieri wearing #9 is weird tho.. I thought he always liked the strange numbers like #32 or #21 and only wore #9 cos friendlies dont have the numbers he likes.. No #9 for Inzaghi sucks as hell tho.. Btw, who wore #11 last time around? At Japan?

 

[italianstyle87]

complete guess, but maybe it was montella

edit: nah is was cristiano doni

 

[italianstyle87]

WC2002 Squad, Bold not playing Euro
Goalkeepers:
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
12 Christian Abbiati (AC Milan)
22 Francesco Toldo (Inter Milan)

Defence:
2 Christian Panucci (AS Roma)
3 Paolo Maldini (AC Milan)
4 Francesco Coco (Barcelona)
5 Fabio Cannavaro (Parma)
13 Alessandro Nesta (Lazio)
15 Mark Iuliano (Juventus)
23 Marco Materazzi (Inter Milan)

Midfield:
6 Cristiano Zanetti (Inter Milan)
8 Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan)
10 Francesco Totti (AS Roma)
11 Christaino Doni (Atalanta)
14 Luigi Di Biagio (Inter Milan)
16 Angelo Di Livio (Fiorentina)
17 Damiano Tommasi (AS Roma)
19 Gianluca Zambrotta (Juventus)

Forwards:
7 Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)
9 Filippo Inzaghi (AC Milan)
18 Marco Delvecchio (AS Roma)
20 Vincenzo Montella (AS Roma)
21 Christian Vieri (Inter Milan)

 

[IceBlu]

2 players i feel sorry for on that list -

Coco and Montella.

Both were such good players and all of a sudden they disappeared

 

[jani]

whoa.. Di Livio was called up to the last WC

 

[italianstyle87]

dont even get started on di livio, and he seriously played every match or 3/4

 

[modena_10]

yeah di livio was a waste and coco and montella have been plagued by injuries, its a shame because i like both of them