The Rugby World Cup 2007 starts today!

Paris – September 07, 2007 – The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition. The event is organized by the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB), and is contested by the best men's national teams.

The title of world champion is currently held by England, who won the 2003 tournament held in Australia.
This year the Rugby World Cup will be hosted in France from September to October.

This evening the first game of the Rugby World Cup 2007 will be played with France against Argentina at the Stade de France Stadium in St Dennis Paris.

Italy, that, after the great results achieved far in the 2007 Six Nations competition, is in the top 10 teams made by International Rugby Board (IRB), will debut with the All Blacks on Saturday.
Italy and its captain and Diadora athlete, Marco Botolami, will play the Rugby World Cup 2007 in Pool C, against New Zealand, Scotland, Romania and again Portugal (beaten 83-0 in the qualifiers) and have a very good chance of making the quarter finals and even the semi finals for the first time.

George Smith , another Diadora athlete, is going to play with Australia. He has already won 58 caps for the Australian national rugby union team since his test debut in 2000 against France in Paris.

Diadora is World champion in Osaka

Ōsaka – The 2007 World Championships in Athletics held in Osaka at Nagai Stadium, Japan, finished yesterday marking the presence of 1.981 athletes from 203 countries worldwide.During this World Championships, Diadora sponsorised the Croatian National Team and won a gold medal thanks to Blanka Vlašić.The Croatian high jumper became the world champion in 2007 World Championships in Athletics with a jump of 2.05 m. Her personal best jump at 2.07 m is also the national record and was set on August 07, 2007. Only two women (one indoor and one outdoor) have jumped higher than this.

Serie A is back!

Serie A is back!
Italian Serie A started last Saturday and the best teams such as Milan and Juventus didn’t disappoint their supporters’ expectations. Only newly promoted Napoli suffered a bad start to the season as they were beaten 2-0 by Cagliari.The European champions enjoyed a large victory at Genoa, who had just come back to Serie A after a 12-year absence. Milan opened the score in the 21st minute through a header by Massimo Ambrosini, the captain, on a cross by Andrea Pirlo and did not have any problems holding on to their lead and winning 3-0 thanks to Kakha Kaladze, the king of the rossoneri defence. No doubt that Ambrosini, is going to be the team leader in the European Super Cup final match Milan – Siviglia that will be played on Friday 31st August, too.A good start also for Roma that won over Palermo thanks to two goals scored by Diadora testimonial Francesco Totti.