Official Confederations Cup Thread

Italy will play a friendly game against Haiti on Tuesday 11 in Brazil, São Januário.

 

Some things to take into consideration:

-This is a meaningless tournament
-Players are tired from the club season and they don't care about said tournament

I hope i'm wrong, i'd like to see our team play 100% regardless of the match/tournament but that's never the case.

 

Yeah they also seemed unmotivated vs Czech republic.
Will prandelli sit balotelli out because of his code of conduct rule?

He should try going back to a 433.

 

I want to see more 3-5-2 please, this is the perfect opportunity to test it out more.

 

So what happens if they play like crap. At least Lippi blamed it on introducing new players. He then relied on the old guys and we know what happened the next year.
If these guys are going to be on the WC squad then they should show how well they can play together. If they really don't care then they should field serie b players

 

not to forget that Spain lost 2-0 to Usa in the 2009 semifinal...

 

Those rules only apply if you are white.

If we go out in the first round Prandelli should not be allowed to return to Italy. I am god damned tired of people using 'its only a friendly' as an excuse for Italy playing like shit. Brasil is not is this damn tournament to have fun! They are in it, to win it! Instead, I am already hearing crap from other Italian fans that these games don't matter. I am beginning to think that these apathetic attitudes are just a smokescreen for a lack of confidence that this team can succeed.

 

Prandelli is the best thing that happened to Italy national team.


all other previous coaches had the players and the names but failed to do shit. barely scraping by with ties and narrow wins. Those Italy squads of 1990-2004 should've won something. Prandelli has turned things for the better. More fluid, offensive minded team. And the Euro success speaks for it all.

 

I would hardly call a spirit crushing/record-setting loss in the finals a Euro a success, but I agree that those Italian teams should have won more. We has to golden chances to be the winning-est team ever at Italia 90 and USA 94 and did not capitalize. This world cup, a special one, in Brasil of all places represents a chance to avenge those defeats. That is why I am always on Prandelli's case. After the last Euro's I don't want Brasil 2014 to go down in the record books as another failed opportunity.

 

i dont wanna start this argument with u but that final was nothing but a fluke and bad luck. he had a wasted sub after the 1st goal and had an injury in 55th min and was forced to play 10 men. IF he had all 11 the game woulda ended 2-0 at worst...they were still in it. If u wanna be childish and keep saying that then go ahead, u will just lose more people on ur side who just skip thru your posts like i do. Game 1 was a real indication of Italy vs. Spain, enough said.

 

Intelligence levels sure have dropped in this forum since Cyclonis was kicked out.

Racist? I hardly think pointing out Prandelli's obvious hypocrisy qualifies as racism. Prandelli kicked out De Rossi for a few games for something he did at club level. Meanwhile Balotelli practically gets into a fist fight with Mancini and does whatever he wants and never gets banned for discipline. If anyone is a ********en racist it all those ********en tools that thought Balotelli was going to be the shit just b/c he is black before they even saw him play. What ignorant scum!

You could argue that Prandelli excludes Balotelli from this rule due to not having anyone of equal talent, but that would require you having some frontal brain lobe activity.

If you really think we can't beat Mexico and Japan, friendly or not, and are still in favor of having Prandelli afterwards, you are even a bigger tool than I thought.

 

I agree to a certain level. Prandelli sometimes makes decisions that has every Italian soccer fan shaking their heads, this weird love he has with Gilardino and Giaccherini needs to stop, they don't belong on the NT. His failure to effectively rotate players last year during the Euro ultimately led to our embarrassing loss at the final. The formation he keeps using does not work, we need to be at a 3-5-2 why does he not see this? Anyway that's my beef with Prandelli

 

Well Prandelli has a chance to avenge that defeat now, so lets not hear about how this is a friendly. The Confederations Cup is an officially sanctioned FIFA tournament and as such, we should be in it to win it.

 

No! because if we beat Spain, everobody will say:"Spain did't take it seriously!" I remind you that Spain lost 2-0 against USA in the 2009 Conf cup semifinal.
Brazil lost 1-0 to Cameroon in the 2003 edition.

 

We are lucky, Mexico is struggling, they got two straight 0-0 against Panama and Costa Rica.

 

Guess Prandelli is just going to have to win the World Cup in Brasil as well just to prove it was not a fluke.

 

Mexico is playing like cacca on their home turf. Italy should be able to take them out with ease.

Also - Scrop is a dildo

 

That is every coach on the planet. You're not gonna ever find that perfect coach that picks the plaeyrs that everyone likes. Go check every other national team and tell me they dont have beef with their coach. I dont like some of his choices either but he's doing the right thing. Its the mentallity that he brings to the team that needs to continue.

As far as not playing 3-5-2 in reallity u need 2 BEAST of a wingers in that formation. Which italy doesnt really have that at the moment.

 

I know we havent been playing the greatest, and that we normally dont care much in frienlies, but after watching mexico play last night, I see no reason for us to not come out and dominate the game. No draw. We will take the W. I personally think Mexico depends to much on cheech.

 

i dont know whats going on with Mexico...they were on a rise for a while and looked to be their golden generation, especially after winning that youth world cup and the olympics. But lately they have been terrible. I mean to tie 4 times in world cup qualifiers in your first 5 games is crazy. They're lucky the other teams in the group arent really doing much so they're still in it.