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U.S. soccer player Oguchi Onyewu signed a three-year contract with AC Milan on Tuesday.

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Italy Under-21 coach Pierluigi Casiraghi has signed a new two-year contract with the Italian Football Federation, the deal taking him beyond the next UEFA European Under-21 Championship finals in Denmark.

Captain Marco Motta said that what might have been was no good to Italy given the harsh reality of their semi-final defeat by Germany in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

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Italy U21 coach Pierluigi Casiraghi says several of his players are ready for Marcello Lippi's World Cup squad.

In 1990-91, a side containing Vialli, Mancini and Lombardo were the subject of one of football's great modern fairytales Gianluca Vialli scored 19 goals in 26 games as Sampdoria won the title in 1991.

Coach Pierluigi Casiraghi admitted there were some nerves on the Italy bench before Robert Acquafresca sealed the Azzurrini's place in the semi-finals with a 75th-minute goal, his second of the game, in a 2-1 win against Belarus.

A long-range effort from defender Andreas Beck saw off Italy as Germany set up a repeat of their Group B meeting with England in the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final.

A repeat of the World Cup semi-final in 2006 and both sides will be full of confidence that they can go all the way.

Italy's forwards have created a stir in Sweden but their back four of Marco Motta, Salvatore Bocchetti, Marco Andreolli and Domenico Criscito have been crucial to their progress to the semi-finals. Stable lineup Pierluigi Casiraghi has stuck with the same defensive quartet throughout the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and has been rewarded by ...

European Under-21s Championship hosts Sweden booked a semi-final clash with England, after posting a 3-1 win over nine-man Serbia on Tuesday night.

WHITHER Italy? What price Marcello Lippi? After that crushing 3-0 defeat by Brazil, he can hardly put up the lame kind of excuse he did when the Azzurri in the Confederations Cup lost 1-0 to Egypt.

On the verge of elimination for the United States, Charlies Davies, Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey scored to lead the Americans over Egypt 3-0 on Sunday and into the semifinals of the Confederations Cup.

Fabio Cannavaro will aim to mark the Confederations Cup match against Brazil in style on Sunday when the central defender is due to equal Paolo Maldini's all-time Italy appearance record of 126 caps.

When the draw for the Confederations Cup was made last year Brazilian and Italian fans thought that by the time the two teams met in their Group B clash they would have safely made it through to the semi-finals. So they thought.

Italy took a decisive step towards the semi-finals with a 2-1 win against Sweden in Group A despite playing nearly an hour with ten men following Mario Balotelli's dismissal.

Italy had far more excuses than goals. A 1-0 loss to Egypt on Thursday in the Confederations Cup was not received well back home.

The US and Egypt go into their second matches in Group B of the Confederations Cup on Thursday knowing that anything but a victory will, almost certainly, end their Confederations Cup campaign.

Italy coach Marcello Lippi is coming under pressure to inject some youth into his lineup against Egypt in the Confederations Cup on Thursday.