Articles tagged with "de rossi"
Gattuso's Summer of Change
By chris | May 6th, 2008The big news of the week on the market front has been the less-than-shocking revelation that Mathieu Flamini is leaving the Emirates for Serie A - only mild surprise being it's not for Torino, seemingly his destination, but for big bucks in Milan. Gi ...
Exhibitions. Woo. Yay.
By chris | March 26th, 2008Spain 1 - Azzurri 0 It wasn't a good game, it wasn't a bad game. It was just sort of....eh. A performance befitting a meaningless game. No great revelations either, except that maybe kinda sorta perhaps Marco Materazzi isn't starting material anym ...
Azzurri v Spain Mini-Preview
By chris | March 25th, 2008Basically, nothing is going to be decided today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are). Fringe guys could up their probability of being selected again the next time around, or vice-versa, but there's still too much time between now and April 7th f ...
Lazio - Rioma
By salvatore | March 18th, 2008Well, here we are folks, derby time. There may be few sporting contests on earth as heated as the Derby della Capitale, but there is a chance that this one might just be a bit more civil than usual (not including the comments section here at the O
Gut Check Time Baby
By robert | February 26th, 2008Serie A, Round 25 Who: Inter Milan vs. Roma When: Wednesday, February 27th 2:30 pm ET Where: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza WARNING: This shit may get out of hand. Those seven words basically describe this game. The two top clubs in the Serie A, 90 minutes
Roma 2- 0 Reggina, Roma back to their Winning Ways
By Marco | February 9th, 2008Roma – Reggina Roma shrug off the 1st away defeat of the season by beating basement boys Reggina. Finally, 3 points against a relegation battler! It wasn’t a convincing one, but 3 points is 3 points Roma started off the game with a 3 Right
Roma- Reggina, Bring on the Basement Boys
By Marco | February 8th, 2008It’s on Saturday!?! My bad, completely forgot Roma - Reggina Roma will be welcoming southern basement boys Reggina to the Olympico on Saturday night. La Magica is looking to prove that the Siena game was only a little bump on the road to t
Italia 3 - 1 Portugal, Blue Boys kicked Portugese Coq !
By Marco | February 7th, 2008After seeing the Azzurrini beat reigning U21 Euro champs Holland on Tuesday, the Big boys decided to spank C. Ronaldo and friends 3-1 on Wednesday night! The Azzurri started off the match in their Nice Retro blue Kits with a 4-3-2-1 formation . T
Awaiting the Austrian Swisses, Italia vs Portugal Preview
By Marco | February 5th, 2008* Free Azzurrini fix right here Italia - Portogallo It’s international soccer time again! Italy will be facing Portugal in Zurich on Wednesday. It’ll be their first match since 2004. Both teams have qualified for the Swissaustrian Euro2008
Champions League: Moving On
By Martha | December 12th, 2007Inter and Roma both took this Matchday as an opportunity to rest their most tired legs, each starting teams with only a handful of regulars, and saving those who have run the most in the last four months (particularly Daniele De Rossi for Roma, and Javier
News Roundup as He-Man Rages at the Foreigners
By Martha | December 11th, 2007•Bayern Munich's resident crotchety old man, Oliver Kahn, recently gave an interview in which he ripped the team's unnamed new arrivals, saying they need to "learn that two or three good games aren’t enough" and, oh yeah, learn to speak freaking Germa
Diego Tristan 1 - Roma 1, Highlights and Weaving
By Marco | December 9th, 20071-1 ! Livorno continue their unbeaten streak after drawing a bizzardly sub-par Roma team. Daniele De Rossi made it 1-0 after 5 minutes , heading in a corner. Another goal on a fucking set piece! But then the unimaginable happened... 1 minute later Diego T
Those Dastardly Rumors
By chris | December 4th, 2007Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini Most have already heard about this little nugget, that Mancini's nuck-futter of an agent, Gilmer Veloz, was up in Milan discussing a possible transfer with Massima Moratti. (In essence, he channeled his inner Becali.
Get Fired Up, Roma Invades Kyiv
By chris | November 27th, 2007Динамо Київ - Roma Roma Roma Less than 3 hours after I posted the Genoa recap, here I am, doing the Dynamo preview. I'm flustered, I can only imagine how the fells feel after taking a nice little trip to the Eastern side. Tired? Probably. No
Marca Get Bored; Make Up Stuff About Real and Roma
By Martha | November 23rd, 2007I've probably mentioned this a time or two here, but god damn do I want to work for Marca. Or As. You know at least 50% of their time is spent sitting around brainstorming rumors to publish, and then giggling at the international frenzy the good ones crea
Odds and Ends as We Lose Another One to Jesus
By Martha | November 14th, 2007[All posts related to the death of Gabriele Sandri and its aftermath are collected here. The most recent is on top, and this one is being updated throughout the day as news develops.] •Suddenly indispensable Juventus defender Nicola Legrottaglie's fo
Azzurri: No Room for Pippo or Ale
By Martha | November 12th, 2007[If you're looking for the latest on the tragic events in Italy yesterday and their repercussions, go here. Serie B and C matches are suspended this weekend; as of right now, Serie A will resume on schedule, on November 25.] As has become standard prac
Milan 0 - Roma 1
By Gianfranco | October 28th, 2007I am absolutely furious. That was one of the worst games I have seen in a long time on all different levels. From the passing, to the opponents, and the officiating it was one of the worst advertisements for Serie A and just plain bad football. Ball
The Legend Of Vucigol Grows
By chris | October 28th, 2007Milan 0 - Roma 1 The guy just cannot stop scoring goals. 6 goals, 7 games and propelling Roma to another 3 points minus Il Capitano in the span of a week. If you had told before the season started that Totti would miss two games and that Roma would ta
Roma v Serie B Champs: Back To The Grind
By chris | September 22nd, 2007Bring On The Cheaters Those cheatin' bastards make their way back to the Olimpico, fresh of a 1-0 loss to Udinese at home (I'm cryin' inside - really, I am) and the loss of about half their roster to injury and Alfa Romeos. Roma? Just the opposite, com
Boys Are Back & Breakin' Down The Bacon
By chris | September 14th, 2007Everyone's Happy To Be Back: Ooh ooh ooh. Roma still exists! I, along with everybody else, can got back to forgetting - thankfully - that Roberto Donadoni still exists, at least for a few more weeks, and get back to the fun stuff. The Grand Imperial Po
Azzurri-Ukraine Preview
By chris | September 12th, 2007Completely avoiding the mediocre boredom that was Saturday's game, the Azzurri get a fresh start against an opponent looking to leap frog into a qualification spot in the Group B standings, which currently look like this: Group B France 19pts (8GP) S
Palermo 0 - Roma 2: Damn They're Good
By chris | August 27th, 2007Palermo 0 - Roma 2: I'd like to introduce you to your 2007-08 Associazione Sportiva Roma, also known as "awesomeness collectively personified." In a game where Roma was obviously a) not at full-strength and b) still not in full form/fitness yet, th
Palermo v Roma Roma Roma
By chris | August 26th, 2007Roma Roma Roma: The wait is over and the much anticipated season opener has arrived. I'm stoked, you're stoked, we're all stoked. The game against Palermo will take place Sunday evening at 8p in Sicily, so clear your calendar. Despite the Supercoppa vi
Season Preview: Midfielders
By chris | August 23rd, 2007Midfield, the bread and butter of Luciano Spalletti's 4-2-3-1 attacking system. One of those systems where the players fit the system, not vice versa, a lot of guys on the squad can fill in adequately at a few position. Essentially divided into two differ
Aquilani Has Arrived & Real Lost Their Mind
By chris | August 21st, 2007(Still my favorite picture of any I've used here at the offside - My Boy) I'm In A Mood And I feel Like Starting A Debate: Guess what? Alberto Aquilani just relegated David Pizarro to discussing the plight of the Italian at Inter on the pine with Gi
First Post-Nesta, Totti Azzurri Called Up
By Martha | August 18th, 2007Roberto Donadoni today announced his call-ups for Wednesday's friendly against Hungary, a match that everyone with two brain cells to rub together is seeing as a crucial warm-up for the France war on September 8 and the subsequent game in Ukraine. Most
Game Time, For Some (Alright, A Few)
By chris | August 18th, 2007Super Coppa: The first pseudo-quasi-semi-official game of the season is tomorrow, and the first kinda-sorta-maybe real trophy will be handed out to someone. Probably whoever scores more goals. If you've been in a coma, swimming with the turtles off the
Mostly Fluffer, A Little Nutter
By chris | August 14th, 2007The Francesco Modesto Watch: The loss to Juventus has reportedly thrown the management into a frenzy and instead of passively sitting on their ass and waiting for the offer of a lifetime to come via the Tooth Fairy, they've gotten somewhat proactive ab
Il Buono, Il Cattivo, Il Brutto
By chris | August 12th, 2007Dr. Jekyll & Mr & Hyde: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The Roma that showed up in the first half hour looked like world beaters. Everybody was playing their part. Juventus wasn't getting set up deep in Roma's end. The pass
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