Olympic Football!

A topic dedicated to the footbal of the Beijing Olympics. In not too long Italia will have its opener with two Lazio players in the squad! also, Brazil will have its opener at the same time...

No Rocchi in the starting XI, the commentators say he is injured (thigh or hamstring...). De Silvestri is playing though...

Belgium played very solid !

I have missed the games, now I have to wait for replay

usampa wrote:

I have missed the games, now I have to wait for replay

now is playing in eurosport!!

great start for Italia, Brazil weren't too convincing, I thought Serbia would have won.

De Silvestri made a mistake in the penalty box and as a result the referee gave Honduras a penalty and De Silvestri a yellow card.. but the penalty was wasted by Honduras

Read from this Article http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=808779 I think Kolarov had a good game... unfortunately, he missed a penalty

this boy is amazing!!


De Guzman

so far, argentinas first half and italias game have been the best..italy looked very solid..

If somebody wants to watch Italy and Argentina games via internet

http://www.justin.tv/barcelonaec

Argentina
I am impressed with Ivory Coast by the way. I observed them at African Cup, now their youngsters looked stable as well.

Well, I've watched only Brazil - Belgium game.
Brazil didn't convince me and once again our coach (same as the main team) is doing stupid changes.
Belgium didn't deserve to lose, I think a draw would be a fair result. There were countless refereeing errors, for both sides. The referee tried to control the game by spamming yellow cards... As a result, on the second half he gave two red cards for Belgium players for silly fouls...

The Italians & Argentines definitely looked the best today, but I didn't get to see the Dutch play. I think they're still a threat, even if they didn't start the tournament with a win. Giovinco looked great down the wing, not to mention his spectacular goal? Is Juve really looking to offload him?! Cigarini, Rossi & Acquafresca impressed as well. With Argenia, it's the usual suspects: Messi, Aguero & Riquelme just look fucking serious. It's going to take either a bad day for them or an amazing day for their opponents to take Argentina down. I also saw the US, who were underwhelming. It was a good win, but not exactly convincing. The speed of Japan seemed to have them unhinged. I think Jozy Altidore should for sure be starting the next match. Anyways, looking forward to the rest of the tournament, a lot of talent out there.

unfortunately De Silvestri was probably Italy's worst player, very disappointing but hopefully he plays himself into good form ready for his return to Lazio.

we played well, Giovinco had an outstanding match, this kid will be the next best thing in calcio for sure. Honduras really were poor though and we never were going to lose. A shame that Lazio missed out on Cigarini, he is another quality player.

Serbia dominated Australia, but the Australian keeper kept his team in it. in truth it was a poor match from both teams, Kolarov was OK, came close from a couple of free kicks, but his delivery into the box was not the best.

I think Serbia will get a medal, but I expected them to take Australia.

Italy looked the best, same problem with Argentina, play brilliantly but struggle to kill off matches, same problem with Brazil too, they just don't play as well as they can.

I was just watching the women's football match between NZ and Norway.... halftime its 1-0 to the Norwegians.

When are Italy playing next?

Bobbi wrote:

When are Italy playing next?

Tomorow 19:45 CET vs Korea.

LofL wrote:

Bobbi wrote:

When are Italy playing next?

Tomorow 19:45 CET vs Korea.

No, 13.45 CET it is.

Just finished watching NZ lose 5-0 to Brazil Ronaldinho played very well!

Argentina have made many lapses, but deservedly won.
Messi is great talent, but on many occasions he is annoying with these long and selfish runs/dribbles.

Rocchi Giovincho and Rossi are great also

As I said before in this thread , Ivory Coast is impressive team, and wouldn't be surprise if they manage to beat Serbia...

Italy - South Korea 2-0 at HT... Rossi and Rocchi scored the goals

Nice win by Italy and a nice goal by Rocchi!!! This is good for him...his preseason!!!

Giovinco was quiet hard time, Struggle by Shin Kwang Hoon.

Rocchi good finish second goal.