Italy World Cup News

With the Scudetto wrapped up for another season in Turin, the race for the next victory is on.

A couple of years ago, Milan's yellow-tied chief executive Adriano Galliani lamented what had become of Serie A. "It's like with theatres and restaurants," he told the pink pages of La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Goal runs through the best players in the Italian top flight in 2012-13 and picks out the top 11 players over the course of the campaign A season of high drama in Italy has brought its usual doses of pain and pleasure in equal measure.

Troy Deeney landed the ultimate Knockaert blow in an incredible finish as Watford went from despair to euphoria in 20 crazy seconds.

Rome, May 10 - Fabio Capello said Friday that his former side Juventus has deservedly won this year's Serie A title, but he added that the Italian top flight is much diminished from when he trained in it.

Serie A is somewhat being underrated this season after relinquishing their fourth Champions League place to the Bundesliga and slipping outside of the top three leagues in UEFA's coefficient.

Gianfranco Zola has played in FA Cup and European finals and at the World Cup, but he says nothing could have prepared him for the npower Championship play-offs. The former Chelsea and Italy superstar takes his Watford side to Leicester for Thursday night's semi-final first leg after they narrowly missed out on automatic promotion on Saturday.

Mario Balotelli scored twice to help AC Milan beat already-relegated Pescara 4-0 in Serie A on Wednesday and leave it on the verge of qualifying for next year's Champions League.

Jonathan Bond could return to boost Watford's promotion bid just five days after suffering a terrible injury which left him in a neck brace with an oxygen mask.

Europe's so-called top five leagues - England's Premier League, Spain's Primera Division, Germany's Bundesliga, Italy's Serie A and France's Ligue 1 - produce some of the most exciting club-based football on the planet each season.

While Juventus impressed last campaign under new manager Antonio Conte - storming unbeaten to its first title since the 2006 match-fixing scandal and relegation to Serie B - this season it has continued to go from strength to strength.

Gianfranco Zola waited two years for the right opportunity. It appeared at Watford, to the surprise of many, and today he could end his first season in charge by clinching promotion to the top flight.

Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo has announced he will retire from international football after next year's World Cup in Brazil.

Rome, May 3 : Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo revealed that he would retire from the national outfit after the 2014 World Cup and could become a coach.

In England, Italy, Spain and elsewhere there will be a fear that the Bundesliga champions are ready to rule for some time Bayern Munich's players celebrate their passage into the Champions League final following victory over Barcelona at Camp Nou.

FERNANDO FORESTIERI: I don't know too much about Wembley so I would prefer Watford to go up automatically and avoid the play-offs... but we don't fear anyone Fernando Forestieri is a 23-year-old forward with Watford and key figure in the club's Premier League promotion push.

The 'Calcioscommesse' match-fixing scandal is a "bottomless pit" according to one of the Italian prosecutors conducting an enquiry into the affair centred around illegal betting.

Great shots of Chelsea victim playing the vampire at training and Suarez's old pal Patrice having a laugh too.

GYLFI SIGURDSSON says the only way to keep Gareth Bale is to make sure Spurs claim a Champions League place.

AC Milan great Paolo Maldini says the Italian Serie A needs reform and investment to compete for European trophies.