We Are The Champions

Italia tricolore, originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

Well, Italy, that is!

What a great feeling for the country to win sport's biggest prize with a team which consistently played highly skillful, well disciplined and attractive football. A team playing together as a team to show the world that there is more to Italian football than scandals, to put a smile on the face of ex-colleague Gianluca Pessotto, to celebrate the end of the Berlusconi era and to show the world what they could do.

They had the skill, the temperament and, for once, the luck to make it and win the Final.

What a fantastic evening, watching the game in a bar in Rome.

TO BE CONTINUED...