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RESULTS: ITALY 5 - 4 JAPAN Italy U21 in FINALS after penalty shoot outs and Empoli striker Sebastian Giovinco gives the winning goal!!!
By Anna Italia
After a goalless end in regular time, the Semifinal between Italy U21 and Japan U21 is decided in penalty shoots outs. Empoli Goalkeeper Davide Bassi makes a superb save and Empoli striker Sebastian Giovinco scores the winning penalty. Bravo for Empoli despite being relegated to the Serie B, their 2 players gave the Italy U21 the pass to the finals.
Congrats Azzurrin we are waving our Italian flags so proudlyi!
The final will be on Thursday against Chile.
Hey, this is a good news. Can you imagine the Azzurrini winning and also the Italian National team winning the EURO 2008? That will be a total delight!
Here are the penalty shoot outs. Japan starts the penalty .......
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
JAPAN (4-4-2): Nishikawa; Nakamura (29' st Hosogai), N.Aoyama (43' st Mizuno ), Mizumoto, Morischige; T.Honda, T.Aoyama, K.Konda, Kajiyama; Morimoto, Taniguchi. (Yamamoto, Ueda, Inoha, Umesaki, Lee, Yoshida, Hayashi, Tanaka). Allenatore: Sorimachi.
Penalty shoot outs: K.Honda (gol), Bocchetti (gol), Kajiyama (gol), Abate (gol), Morischige (gol), Cigarini (gol), Mizuno (parata), Candreva (gol), Mizumoto (gol), Giovinco (gol).
After a goalless end in regular time, the Semifinal between Italy U21 and Japan U21 is decided in penalty shoots outs. Empoli Goalkeeper Davide Bassi makes a superb save and Empoli striker Sebastian Giovinco scores the winning penalty. Bravo for Empoli despite being relegated to the Serie B, their 2 players gave the Italy U21 the pass to the finals.Congrats Azzurrin we are waving our Italian flags so proudlyi!
The final will be on Thursday against Chile.
Hey, this is a good news. Can you imagine the Azzurrini winning and also the Italian National team winning the EURO 2008? That will be a total delight!
Here are the penalty shoot outs. Japan starts the penalty .......
| JAPAN U21 | ITALY U21 |
| Goalkeeper: Nishikawa K. Honda  Kajlama Morishige Mizuno Saved by Bassi !! Mizumoto |
Goalkeeper: Davide Bassi Bocchetti Abate Cigarini Candreva Sebastian Giovinco |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
ITALIA-JAPAN 5-4
ITALIA (4-3-2-1): Davide Bassi; Motta, Coda, Bocchetti, De Silvestri; Nocerino, Cigarini, Marchisio (35' st Candreva); Lanzafame (1' st Pellè), Giovinco; Osvaldo 5.5 (23' st Abate). (Alfonso, Marzoratti, Dellafiore, Guarente, Dessena, Galloppa).
Coach: Casiraghi.
Coach: Casiraghi.
JAPAN (4-4-2): Nishikawa; Nakamura (29' st Hosogai), N.Aoyama (43' st Mizuno ), Mizumoto, Morischige; T.Honda, T.Aoyama, K.Konda, Kajiyama; Morimoto, Taniguchi. (Yamamoto, Ueda, Inoha, Umesaki, Lee, Yoshida, Hayashi, Tanaka). Allenatore: Sorimachi.
Referee: Brines (Scozia).
Penalty shoot outs: K.Honda (gol), Bocchetti (gol), Kajiyama (gol), Abate (gol), Morischige (gol), Cigarini (gol), Mizuno (parata), Candreva (gol), Mizumoto (gol), Giovinco (gol).
Guys stand up and give a strong applause to our AZZURRINI!
Man,i am so proud of our players and happy for Giovinco, Anna I am waving my Italian flag too and it will be a complete joy if our Azzurrini win the tournament and the Nazionale the EURO 2008.
Nina, Kenntak, milan99, Mark, Monica where are your Italian flags? Not seeing them...
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Ok boss! I am standing up applauding gli Azzurrini!!! I love it! They did excellent and they certainly deserve this outstanding ovation
We need now the Nazionale to win the EURO 2008
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Pietro I am waving an Italian flag but its not that high yet but believe it or not its getting higher every minute!!!
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Pierto,i have been waving my flag for the little ones as well. What a match!!!We could have scored 4 ,or 5 goals but no luck, and it had to go to penalty kicks. Little Gio is the future of Italy; he is so good, too good for someone that small. Anna, Pietro, what do you guys think of Ignazio Abate? Milan should definitely bring him back. The boy is simply magic. I have never seen anyone that fast and with such good technique and control of the ball and so young. Forza Azzurrini
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Abate is doing great but I don't think he is ready for MILAN. The one I want to bring back is Genoa striker Marco Borriello. He is more than ready. I agree Abate is fast and great technique but not yet for Milan.. Maybe 1 more season?
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Maybe you are right.I'm just happy to see that Milan youth products with such talent.Mark my words,Abate is a future Azzurri star.Lino Marzoratti is another Milan under 21 player who is also doing great. Forza Milan.
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Congrats!!!! but u know what Empoli will have nice future!!!
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Empoli sadly blew it in the last 8 matches because they were doing fine in the beginning of the season, even beating Juventus in La Coppa Italia.
Sadly... they are in B now.
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This is awesome. I hope Italian teams winning becomes a trend!
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