Lazio were Celtic’s first Italian opponents when the clubs drew 0-0 in Rome in 1950 before a Celtic Park rematch a few months later when Celtic won 4-0. The next four occasions Celtic met Italian teams would all be played on neutral ground, starting with a draw against Bologna on a 1966 preseason tour of the United States, before a notable win against Inter in Lisbon at the end of that season.
Celtic then met Milan four times in 10 months starting in May 1968. It was back to the US for a 1-1 draw, before a rematch a month later in Toronto when goals from Bobby Lennox and Charlie Gallacher won the game. The teams then drew 0-0 in the San Siro before Milan won the return 0-1 at Celtic Park, the first time in eight games against Italian opposition Celtic emerged with a defeat.
Italian champions Fiorentina lost at Celtic Park in 1969 before winning the return game while a year later Celtic drew twice against Bari on a North American tour. Inter and Celtic then met in the 1972 European Cup semi-final, both games finishing goalless, before a nine year wait until the next game against Italian opponents and the first against Juventus. Celtic won at home and lost in Turin.
Three games in four days in July 1993 saw a win over US Carisolo and defeats against Atalanta and Napoli. Four years later Parma and Roma visited Celtic Park, with the home team achieving a draw and win. 2001 saw Celtic’s first Champions League group games and two memorable games against Juventus, losing controversially in Turin before recording a 4-3 win in Glasgow.
Parma lost at Celtic Park in 2002 with Roma beating Celtic in Toronto in 2004. Celtic then embarked on a familiarity drive with Milan, drawing twice at home and losing the corresponding away fixtures in 2004 and 2007. A home win over Parma in summer 2007 briefly interrupted Celtic’s run of Italian fixtures against Milan but the teams met another twice in 2007, Celtic winning at home and losing away.
Celtic lost to Inter in Dublin in 2011 before drawing home and away to Udinese in the same year. Kris Commons scored Celtic’s goal in their most recent match against Italian opponents in a Celtic Park draw last July.
36 games in 63 years, 11 wins, 11 defeats and 14 draws. The team in green and white won the most important one!
Early notice, the CQN Charity Golf Day will take place on Friday, 14 June. More details to follow.
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huntlybhoy,
cheers and I’ll raise you basel
Slovakia , east Germany and Switzerland all wrong
We beat Zurich in 67 before winning the whole thing !
sannabhoy
08:57 on
11 February, 2013
barcabhoy, holland?
ajax.???????
Romania?
huntlybhoy86
Neuvhatel Xamax (or something) of Switzerland we got gubbed 5-1
Germany?
sannabhoy I’ll join in ..AJAX??????
Jungle Jim
Stuttgart ?????????? :O)
BARCABHOY
Croatia?
Austria?
vp
I could have said Spain 0:-))))
Jungle Jim
09:11 on
11 February, 2013
Germany?
road to SEVILLE?????
Croatia?
Andorra
Poland.
Jungle Jim
You will notice that I am not answering the original question,I was at they two games .:O)
I’m in the lead in the ‘quiz’!
BMCUW
Morning bud!
Meal went well – I ate too much ‘tho! Had to drink more wine than usual to wash it all down! My wee granny would have been proud of me!
Still snowing!
Emailed you yesterday.
HH!!
VP @ 9.11
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TSOAL
There is always a spoiler at the party.
“Officers from Scotland Yard meet with Food Standards Agency to discuss horsemeat scandal”
Groundhorse Day
Yorkbhoy : Sorry, not from Greenock. Visited it once many moons ago to see us play Morton – highlight from that game was a magnificent Roy Baines save as I recall.
Barcabhoy
I ran this question on CQN a few years back and i had it that there were 3 countries whose teams we had never beaten.
bournesouprecipe
Toast and sausage stops half way to mooth.
I think celtic should upgrade barrowfield.,why so teams like Juventus who come to play us can have the use of decent training facilites there.But then Dermont Desmond isnt a chap who likes to pay for something out of his own pockets is he,
Barcabhoy
BTW I think all 3 correct answers have been given already
StockExchange…………………..Findus share price now stable
barcabhoy
It could be Austria after the 3-1 victory over the cheats from Rapid was expunged from the record books.
Or Croatia!
HH!!
Scotland?
Morning all. Bright and cold down here on the coast.
Any word on O.G. Rafferty’s hints last night?
On Sunday, Nigeria won the CAF Africa Cup
of Nations for the third time in their history
after Sunday Mba’s goal five minutes
before the break gave the Super Eagles a
1-0 victory against Burkina Faso. In an
exclusive interview, Celtic defender Efe
Ambrose, who was named in CAF’s team of
the tournament, tells FIFA.com that the
side came to the finals as underdogs, but
are leaving as giants.
FIFA.com: Before the tournament,
everybody was talking about Côte
d’Ivoire, did that help take some of the
pressure off your side?
Efe Ambrose: Yes, we came here as an
underdog. Nobody gave us a chance
because of the calibre of players we have.
People were saying we have inexperienced
players, but they don’t know football.
Football these days is not about
experience, it is all about determination,
hard work and preparation. So, we proved
them wrong, that is the most important
thing.
How important was your coach Stephen
Keshi to this success?
The coach had trust and confidence in the
players. That matters the most, for without
that, you cannot succeed. But he believed
in us and that we could do it. From the
start he told us that when we were here,
there was nothing that could stop us from
winning this cup. He said, even before we
came here, that his aim was not only to win
the cup, but to go to the Confederations
Cup. The Confederations Cup is bigger than
what we were playing for in South Africa.
With his dream, it helped us a lot to know
that we had a bigger thing ahead of us.
Nobody gave Nigeria the chance because
last year we did not even qualify for the
finals, so everybody wrote us off. But this
made us more determined to work hard,
train more and prove people wrong. We
wanted to make sure that we are a giant of
African football, and we wanted to bring
back the glory of the past to the present.
What will it mean for the Super Eagles
to play at the Confederations Cup?
It is a big thing, and we are all looking
forward to going to Brazil. And we will not
only be going there to play for Nigeria, but
we will go there to make Africa proud.
What does winning the title mean for
you personally?
This is my biggest achievement that I have
had to date. Before this, it was the Olympic
silver medal from Beijing. But this is the
biggest, so this is one of the greatest
moments of my life. It was always my
dream to play in the Nations Cup, but I
would have never thought of winning it. So
now I just have to thank God and all
Nigerians, from the President to the last
person in Nigeria for their belief. It is no
longer about us on the pitch, it is all about
team effort and we are one, because
football unites us and I know people at
Celtic and back home in Nigeria will be
celebrating for us and waiting for the cup to
be paraded in Nigeria.
What are your immediate plans?
I can only decide after I speak to my coach
at Celtic because we have the Champions
League game with Juventus coming up in a
few days. So I have to speak to my coach
first to be sure if he will allow me to go to
Nigeria. But if he does not, I will accept it
because it is my club, so they come first.
When my club needs me, I just have to go
there and help and see what we can do in
the Champions League.
What do you think was the key to
Nigeria’s success?
We worked very hard and trained hard. It is
not easy to achieve this, and it is due to
the hard work and dedication which we put
in place every day. We sacrificed so many
things to be where we are now. But to win
was always going to be a great sacrifice.
In 1996, Nigeria did not come to South
Africa to defend their trophy. Was this
like a belated vindication?
Yes, it was as if we came to defend our cup,
which we were supposed to do then, but
due to politics and other things, we could
not defend it. It was also good to see that
football brought us and South Africa
together again. You could see the locals
were cheering for us. When South Africa
could no longer win, they were not happy,
but we have made them happy by winning
this cup.
I see Leggat is posting his usual rubbish, just saw this tweet by Mark Daly
Mark Daly @markdaly2
Nice to be getting so much attention from David Leggat. If only his sources were as good as he thought. Or even, actually existed…
I also see that Leggats Lapdog responding to Daly
Chris Graham @ChrisGraham76
@markdaly2 Did he say something inaccurate? What specifically?
timbhoy2
09:21 on 11 February, 2013
I think celtic should upgrade barrowfield.,why so teams like Juventus who come to play us can have the use of decent training facilites there.But then Dermont Desmond isnt a chap who likes to pay for something out of his own pockets is he,
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Well, if you think that.
And dermot Desmond hasn’t acted on your thoughts, before you expressed theme
Then your right to have a pop at the owner of the club, who are about to play in the last 16 of the biggest club competition in the world.
Apparently ole Thomas Cook the travel agent asked Celtic fans travelling to Turin, if they had any nice haircuts planned.
DeniaBhoy
08:53 on 11 February, 2013
‘Not the one year anniversary piece I was expecting to see from Graeme Waddell. Has he grown a pair?’
Maybe something to do with Jabba’s PR efforts.
You’d think a club like that would heed the advice of John Knox
‘You cannot antagonise and influence at the same time.’
3-0 – not 3-1.
HH!!
Poland is the 2nd country we have never beaten a team from in European competition
Top of the morning to you all from a fine sunny Fife.
Now the excitement starts to build for the big game. I don’t remember a game that we went into at Celtic Park with so much confidence since the AC Milan game.
I was sitting in the main stand right in line with big Billy when Pratti nipped in and scored.
Hope the bhoys manage to keep a clean sheet and I would settle for a 0-0 as I think we are best in attack and can score out there.
Looks like the Pars are goosed. Yorkston and Masterton have been found to have transferred £400k from another company to prop up the Pars and now the fans group have told them they won’t give them a penny of the money they have raised.
Pity because prior to Yorkston era Celtic had good relations with them.
The answer to the quiz question is Poland and Greece I think.
Panathanikos and Wisla Krakow I think beat Celtic and we haven’t played there in Europe since.
I didn’t google it.
Slovan Bratislava were beaten by Celtic in the 1960s and they are from Slovakia for people guessing the place where I reside. Granted they were part of Czechoslovakia at the time but it was still played in Bratislava.