Nationwide shock as Italy miss out on World Cup 2022

IMAGE: Italian players in disbelief after they miss out on World Cup Qualification. Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters Eight months after winning the European Championship trophy and being......

The potential successors to Italy's old guard...

'This is a renaissance for Italian football. I'm sure now that this squad and coach will still make plenty of headlines going forward.' IMAGE: Italy manager Roberto Mancini and captain Giorgio......

Mussolini's great-grandson signs three-year deal with Serie A club Lazio

The defender is currently in his final year at the St George’s British International School in Rome, which is close to Lazio’s training ground near Formello.   IMAGE: Romano......

'Hand of God' brings Argentina Pope, says Maradona

The same "hand of God" brought the papacy to Argentina as helped it to the 1986 World Cup, says Diego Maradona, the soccer legend whose famously illicit, handled goal against England still excites......

Italians break World Cup trophy

The biggest prize in sport deserved to be handled better.It has been less than a week since Italy's penalty shootout victory over France in Berlin, but the coveted trophy is no longer in one......