EURO 2008 INFO

The team of Italy Monday joined Austria and his home in Baden, about thirty kilometers south of the capital Vienna, for the Euro-2008 (June 7-29 in Switzerland and Austria).

The Italian ambassador to Austria Massimo Spinetti, the president of the Austrian Football Federation Friedrich Stickler, a representative of the region of Lower Austria (which supports the stay of the Squadra during Euro) and a quarantine Journalists have hosted the 2006 World Champions at the airport Vienna-Schwechat late morning.

A cake in the shape of a football field mixing the colors of Italy and the Lower Austria had also been prepared in honour of the players of the Squadra Azzurra.

The Italian delegation, which will stay at the hotel Schloss Weikersdorf, then took the road of Baden aboard his bus official blue jersey as the Nazionale, and on which is inscribed in particular: "il cielo e 'sempre azzurrò più "(the sky is always bluer).

A first training is scheduled at 15:30 GMT to Bundesstadion Südstadt Maria Enzersdorf, located about ten kilometers from Baden, and the usual playground of Admira Wacker, 1st division club in Austria.

Evoluant in group C, Italy will face the Netherlands (June 9 in Berne), Romania (June 13 in Zurich) and France (June 17 in Zurich)