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Argentina retain gold

August 23rd, 2008

Argentina have retained their Olympic gold medal by defeating Nigeria 1-0 in the Final, taking revenge for their 1996 defeat. Leo Messi was again inspirational as ...

Lavezzi will accept bench

August 22nd, 2008

Napoli star Ezequiel Lavezzi claims he doesn't mind if he starts Argentina's Olympic Final against Nigeria tomorrow on the bench. The talented youngster scored twice in ...

Argentina 3-0 Brazil Just as Brazil slaughtered Argentina 3-0 in the Copa América final of 2007, so did the albicelestes treat their neighbours to an absolute ...

What: Olympic Games Semi-Final Who: Nigeria vs Belgium When: 19 August 2008, 19:00 China Standard Time Where: Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai Two former gold medalists meet in Shanghai to determine ...

Brazil knocked former champions Cameroon out of the Beijing Olympics football tournament with a 2-0 extra time win in a rough-house quarter-final here on Saturday. The ...

Argentina Olympics coach Sergio Batista believes his side have what it takes to beat Brazil in their upcoming semi-final encounter, despite an inferior recent head-to-head ...

Azzurri repentant

August 17th, 2008

The Italian Olympic team returned home with heads bowed after their exit. “It was all our fault, we just didn't step up.” The Azzurri were expected ...

The Italian Olympic football team has been beaten 3 - 2 by Belgium in a controversial and action packed quarter final, allowing the Belgian’s to ...

Confidence in Italian camp

August 15th, 2008

Italy’s Olympic Coach Pierluigi Casiraghi and midfield star Riccardo Montolivo are confident ahead of Saturday’s quarter-final against Belgium. The Azzurri topped Group D with comfortable wins ...

Italy Olympic coach Pierluigi Casiraghi is confident that his side’s quality will prove decisive against Belgium tomorrow. The Azzurrini take on the Belgians in the quarter ...