Category: Italy
Sweden Qualify for Russia at the Expense of Mediocre Italy
Sweden beat Italy 1-0 on aggregate to reach the World Cup 2018 in Russia. Italy failed to score even once against their stubborn opponents in Milan to [...]

Italy Miss World Cup Thanks To Not So Ace Ventura – Calcio Consultant
As an American, my first World Cup experience was in 1986. The USA wasn’t in it, so I’ve seen a World Cup without them before, writes Frank Crivello.
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Sweden Make Underperforming Italy Pay in Stockholm
A hard-working Sweden draw first blood against a below par Italy in first leg of the World Cup playoff at Stockholm.
A deflected finish from Johans [...]

Pietro Pellegri: The Young Stars of Italian Football
Age: 16
Place of birth: Genoa, Italy
Position: Striker
Current club: Genoa
Serie A experience: 7 games
In March 2015, Genoa president Enrico Pr [...]

Things That Scare Me About Italian Football – The Calcio Consultant
Aside from the paper ghosts hung up in my house, pumpkins, costumes for my kids, decorative spider webs, and of course the excess of candy, you wouldn [...]

Can University Alliance Bring Enlightenment to Ternana?
Football and scientific research may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but the two have become inextricably linked since the Niccolò Cusano University in [...]

Italy’s Next Wave of Great Managers – The Calcio Consultant
Wine, food and fashion -- just some of the things Italy does well.
Within calcio, Italy have a mass production line of goalkeepers, defenders and [...]

The Serie A Situation: Full League Roundup – The Calcio Consultant
The first nine or ten matches of the season are what’s known as the getting to know you phase. It’s at that point where we have a good understanding o [...]

Andrea Pirlo: The Party Is Over
The date was June 24th 2012, with Italy and England duelling it out for a place in the semi-finals of the European Championships. England were leading [...]

Gonzalo Higuain: Form Is Temporary
A striker that provides goals wherever he plays, be it at Real Madrid scoring 122 goals between 2007–2013, or breaking a 66-year-old goal scoring reco [...]
