Marcello Lippi

England And Italy Provisional Squads Revealed

by Rob McCluskey on May 11, 2010 · 8 comments

The past few days has seen a num­ber of pro­vi­sional and even final squads announced for the World Cup, but today two of the most antic­i­pated pro­vi­sional squads were revealed. Eng­land has deliv­ered their 30 pro­vi­sional play­ers amidst con­tro­versy regard­ing man­ager Fabio Capello’s involve­ment in a bizarre form rat­ing web­site which sports his name. Italy’s […]

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Who Should Lippi Pick for South Africa 2010?

by Rami Soufi on October 31, 2009 · 1 comment

Azzurri coach Mar­cello Lippi has come under heavy crit­i­cism in recent months despite Italy’s suc­cess in qual­i­fy­ing to the World Cup in South Africa. La Nazionale went through an alarm­ing goal drought and was only able to over­come it after two unfor­tu­nate own goals from return­ing Geor­gia cap­tain Kakha Kaladze. The Ital­ians were expected to […]

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Capello or Lippi: Who Has Achieved More?

by Rami Soufi on September 8, 2009 · 2 comments

It is quite dif­fi­cult to com­pare the career path of Fabio Capello and Mar­cello Lippi. Both have been suc­cess­ful coaches and both hail from the Ital­ian penin­sula. They both coached Juven­tus of Turin dur­ing their glit­ter­ing man­age­r­ial career, yet the sim­i­lar­i­ties end there. While Capello’s play­ing career far sur­passes that of Lippi’s, the gap in accolades […]

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