BERNE: Italy are notoriously slow starters at major finals, but not even their most pessimistic fan imagined they would begin Euro 2008 by suffering their worst defeat in a tournament since the 1970 World Cup final.
Trounced 4-1 by Brazil in one of soccer’s all-time great games in Mexico City, the hammering they took from the Dutch on Monday could have been even worse.
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