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🥃 2025, the summer of Italo Disco…and Sampdoria
June 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A hostage situation is unfolding in Washington DC
June 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🏟️ From La Stampa newspaper, May 1984, the runners & riders for Italia’90 World Cup venues

Perugia and Ascoli were unfortunate to eventually miss out

From discarded stadia to a phantom draw, the untold story of #Italia90

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June 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🇮🇹 Italia ‘90 kicked off on this day 35 years ago…but it didn’t start there

It began 8 years earlier - with intrigue, scandal & backroom deals

From Cameroon’s pre-tournament chaos to Baggio’s betrayal, this is the prelude to the Magic Nights

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June 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Who remembers Stefano Gioacchini?

A young forward who signed for Coventry on loan from a Venezia in January 1999

He mustered 3 PL appearances from the bench before heading home to play for Serie B Cosenza
May 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🆕✍️ Italy 1-2 Pontedera - the day the Azzurri were humbled by their fourth division opponents

30 years on, Pontedera used the iconic Gazzetta headline - 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗽 - to inspire their 24/25 shirt

Full story👇
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May 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📉🧤Spare a thought for GK Alessio Cragno, once a regular in the Italian national squad, he’s had a rough few years…

May 2021: Started for Italy v San Marino
May 2022: Relegated (B) with Cagliari
May 2024: Relegated (B) with Sassuolo
May 2025: Relegated (C) with Sampdoria
May 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇮🇹 The view of Stadio Olimpico during last night’s Coppa Italia Finale

The Italian Open Tennis competition is currently being held on the clay courts of Foro Italico
May 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
38 players used, 5 different goalkeepers, 4 coaches and €millions wasted in flawed recruitment tells the story of a wretched season for #Sampdoria

Relegation to Serie C for the first time in the club’s history

This lot deserve so much better
May 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Atalanta fans at Penydarren Park, Merthyr, September 1987
April 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
👟 @1913parmacalcio.bsky.social X Puma

Unboxing of the Parma Super Team sneakers 🔥

✅ Club crest on tongue & heel
✅ Insole inspired by the 1996/97 shirt
✅ Embossed Parmalat logo
✅ Retro club name inscription
April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🏟️ Stadio Olimpico, Rome
📅 1930s v today

An awesome photo of the original 1932 design - basically just a sports field with grassy banks instead of terraces
April 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The 1990s away sector at Venezia wasn’t for the faint-hearted 😵
April 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🍿 Atalanta distributed their own branded popcorn at the premiere of their docu-film Una Vita Da Dea
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
1️⃣7️⃣ Marek Hamsik
April 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🏟️ Stadio Olimpico, Rome (1957)
April 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🏟️ Stadio Sinigaglia, Como

Stunning on a sunny day…also stunning under moody skies
March 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🙏 Basilica di Superga, the scene of Italian football’s greatest tragedy
March 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
📸 Pierluigi Casiraghi
AC Monza 1988/89
March 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📦 Our latest eBay pickup…

1986 Anglo-Italian Cup programme

The edition of the tournament where rookie coach Marcello Lippi led Tuscan side Pontedera to a resounding 6-1 victory over Merthyr Tydfil
March 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🏊‍♂️ Ajax’s Daniele Rugani sustained a cut to the head in tonight’s UEL game…so they whacked a swimming cap on it
March 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
𝕃𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟…

Louis Thomas Buffon making his professional debut at 17
March 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Gullit & Lombardo
🔵⚪️🔴⚫️⚪️🔵
March 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🇩🇪 Thomas Berthold - spent two seasons with Verona in the late 1980s before winning the 1990 World Cup
March 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In Serie B today, second place Pisa travel to third place Spezia.

Victory for the Tuscans would stretch their margin to 9 points in the race for automatic promotion to Serie A. Defeat would slash it to just 3.

Pisa are peddling some 👌 content over on Instagram - worth checking out
March 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM