The Italian press is in raptures following the extraordinary extra-time display that saw the Azzurri beat host Germany 2-0 in its traditional fortress, the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund. “We love you,” ran the headline form the Corriere dello Sport. The sports paper predicted the performance would become legend. “We knocked them out in their own backyard, with 60,000 fans shouting for them, with [Michael] Ballack provoking us, in a stadium where Germany had never lost before.” Tuttosport called Italy’s heroes “giants,” Rome’s Messaggero said, “Italy is stronger than everyone else. We’re in,” La Repubblica proclaimed “Historic Italy – We are in the final,” and Turin’s La Stampa purred: “They gave it their all. So, in the end, they got it all – the final, the glory, the applause of the world.” The story of Italy’s World Cup has to be what a marvelous team effort its run has been: 10 different scorers netting 11 goals in six games. La Stampa noted the timeliness of Coach Marcello Lippi’s decisions in each and every game. “It was Lippi’s victory, because he got his tactics right,'”the paper said, singling out his decision the include Alessandro Del Piero and Vincenzo Iaquinta as the catalyst for victory. Earlier in the day, headlines had been dominated by the match-fixing scandal involving four top Serie A clubs, champion Juventus of Turin chief among them. Italian soccer fFederation prosecutor Stefano Palazzi requested that Juventus be sent down to Italy’s third division, and that AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio all be relegated to Serie B.