MARCELLO LIPPI, head coach of the Italian national soccer team–known worldwide as the “Azzurri”–cut a dapper figure at the draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which took place last Friday in the east German city of Leipzig.
Trim, tanned, and silver-haired, Lippi learned that three-time world champions Italy would face the Czech Republic, Ghana (“the Brazil of Africa”), and the United States in the group stage of next summer’s World Cup, which will be held across 12 German cities from June 9 to July 9.
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