This journeyman full-back wasn’t meant to be a FIFA World Cup hero, after all. He had played a significant of chunk of his career in Italy’s lower leagues, and had been brought to the 2006 ...
Former Italy defender Marco Materazzi has finally confirmed what he said to provoke Zinedine Zidane into headbutting him at the 2006 World Cup final. Materazzi speaks on 2006 World Cup final ...
It fit a pattern in Italy’s remarkably poor World Cup record since winning that fourth title in Berlin in 2006: two group-stage exits then two failures even to qualify. If Spalletti’s Italy ...