Berlin, 9 July 2006 – When the Azzurri found poetry in pragmatism.
It was half past midnight in the Olympiastadion when Fabio Cannavaro, legs of granite and lungs of opera, finally looked at the roof and screamed: “Siamo campioni del mondo!” Around him the blue shirts folded into each other like Mediterranean waves. On the Italy 2006 print, the foosball figurines may stand rigid, but that night Italy’s XI bent every narrative to their will.
From the first whistle, Italy football ran on paradox: a defence that attacked space, an attack that defended possession, and a playmaker—Andrea Pirlo—who never seemed to move yet was everywhere. “He passes to ghosts,” Gennaro Gattuso grunted afterwards, “and the ghosts obey.” It was Pirlo’s corner that Marco Materazzi headed in to cancel Zinedine Zidane’s audacious Panenka after just 19 minutes.
The match’s hinge, of course, came on 110 minutes. Zidane, provoked by Materazzi’s whispered barb—“Nothing worse than the insults you hear in a Calabrian schoolyard,” the defender later shrugged—turned, planted, and delivered the most infamous coup de boule in modern sport. Gianluigi Buffon’s glove still tingled from tipping Zidane’s header over moments earlier; now, as the French captain trudged past, Buffon murmured, “You’re better than that, maestro.” The maestro was gone. Italy’s task became simple: survive, then prevail.
Fabio Grosso’s decisive penalty, curled left-footed with the same joy that dispatched Germany in the semi-final, froze time. Grosso admits he whispered “Baggio” before striking, a tribute to the No.10 who missed in ’94. Roberto Baggio, watching in Brescia, later texted: “Now we’re even.”
Cannavaro lifted the trophy and Italy’s scandal-scarred Serie A breathed again. Less than two months after Calciopoli erupted, the Azzurri had offered absolution on green grass. As Alessandro Del Piero quipped: “We cleaned the streets with a gold brush.”
Those memories stand today on an elegant soccer poster, each tiny figurine—a miniature Buffon, a miniature Pirlo—frozen in 4-4-1-1 symmetry. Hang this football wall art and you hang Berlin night itself: Cannavaro airborne, Materazzi unapologetic, Pirlo surveying with celestial calm.
Bring home the Italy 2006 print and let the echoes of “Po-po-po-po-po” roll across your walls. The foosball Azzurri await—ready to win the World Cup again, every day, just for you.
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➤ ABOUT THE PRINT
Each artwork is professionally printed on gallery quality matte paper which perfectly compliments the designs using only archival inks. The high print quality ensure that your wall print will last a long time while maintaining its original color.
Premium Matte Paper: 200 gsm, premium quality, matte finish
Shipped in a stiff cardboard tube (100% recyclable, 90% recycled)
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➤ HOW TO ORDER
Simply purchase the listing in your desired size.
Sizes:
A3 (297 X 420 mm / 11.7 X 16.5 in)
A2 (420 x 594 mm / 16.5 x 23.4 in)
A1 (594 x 841 mm / 23.4 x 33.1 in)
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➤ PLEASE NOTE: FRAME IS NOT INCLUDED
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➤ ADDITIONAL
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Berlin, 9 July 2006 – When the Azzurri found poetry in pragmatism.
It was half past midnight in the Olympiastadion when Fabio Cannavaro, legs of granite and lungs of opera, finally looked at the roof and screamed: “Siamo campioni del mondo!” Around him the blue shirts folded into each other like Mediterranean waves. On the Italy 2006 print, the foosball figurines may stand rigid, but that night Italy’s XI bent every narrative to their will.
From the first whistle, Italy football ran on paradox: a defence that attacked space, an attack that defended possession, and a playmaker—Andrea Pirlo—who never seemed to move yet was everywhere. “He passes to ghosts,” Gennaro Gattuso grunted afterwards, “and the ghosts obey.” It was Pirlo’s corner that Marco Materazzi headed in to cancel Zinedine Zidane’s audacious Panenka after just 19 minutes.
The match’s hinge, of course, came on 110 minutes. Zidane, provoked by Materazzi’s whispered barb—“Nothing worse than the insults you hear in a Calabrian schoolyard,” the defender later shrugged—turned, planted, and delivered the most infamous coup de boule in modern sport. Gianluigi Buffon’s glove still tingled from tipping Zidane’s header over moments earlier; now, as the French captain trudged past, Buffon murmured, “You’re better than that, maestro.” The maestro was gone. Italy’s task became simple: survive, then prevail.
Fabio Grosso’s decisive penalty, curled left-footed with the same joy that dispatched Germany in the semi-final, froze time. Grosso admits he whispered “Baggio” before striking, a tribute to the No.10 who missed in ’94. Roberto Baggio, watching in Brescia, later texted: “Now we’re even.”
Cannavaro lifted the trophy and Italy’s scandal-scarred Serie A breathed again. Less than two months after Calciopoli erupted, the Azzurri had offered absolution on green grass. As Alessandro Del Piero quipped: “We cleaned the streets with a gold brush.”
Those memories stand today on an elegant soccer poster, each tiny figurine—a miniature Buffon, a miniature Pirlo—frozen in 4-4-1-1 symmetry. Hang this football wall art and you hang Berlin night itself: Cannavaro airborne, Materazzi unapologetic, Pirlo surveying with celestial calm.
Bring home the Italy 2006 print and let the echoes of “Po-po-po-po-po” roll across your walls. The foosball Azzurri await—ready to win the World Cup again, every day, just for you.
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➤ ABOUT THE PRINT
Each artwork is professionally printed on gallery quality matte paper which perfectly compliments the designs using only archival inks. The high print quality ensure that your wall print will last a long time while maintaining its original color.
Premium Matte Paper: 200 gsm, premium quality, matte finish
Shipped in a stiff cardboard tube (100% recyclable, 90% recycled)
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➤ HOW TO ORDER
Simply purchase the listing in your desired size.
Sizes:
A3 (297 X 420 mm / 11.7 X 16.5 in)
A2 (420 x 594 mm / 16.5 x 23.4 in)
A1 (594 x 841 mm / 23.4 x 33.1 in)
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➤ PLEASE NOTE: FRAME IS NOT INCLUDED
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➤ ADDITIONAL
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
