Articles tagged with "frey"
Fiorentina: News and Notes
By Ted | May 6th, 2008It’s been a quiet week for the Viola, largely because the boys do not have a mid-week game for the first time in a long time. I feel like I should be prepping a match preview for tomorrow, but I accept the break just as the team must welcome it: w ...
Fiorentina v. Rangers: UEFA Cup Preview
By Ted | April 23rd, 2008Some matches are so big for the team’s supporters, and so much potential fun, that it is impossible to preview them, for the written word simply cannot match the emotions the fans feel. This match is shaping up that way for me; I feel like I’ve ...
Tuesday Milan Musings, the Dark Horses of the Transfer Market
By Gianfranco | April 22nd, 2008Happy Bday to Milan's own Kaka enjoy his birthday video... On a lighter note there is another birthday to celebrate here at the Milan Offside blog. Today marks the one year anniversary of my time here. I tell you just a year ago we were talkin ...
Fiorentina 1 – Palermo 0: Match Recap
By Ted | April 19th, 2008Viola fans will go to bed happy tonight, awash in their dreams of Champions League play next season. We are so happy because our CL dreams have refused to become nightmares, and our team continues to win its important matches. With today’s win ov ...
Inter 2 –Fiorentina Zilch: The ‘Kinda-Sorta’ Match Recap
By Ted | April 13th, 2008Today at the San Siro Fiorentina lost 2-0 to a superior Inter Milan squad. A gutsy and injured Bassy Frey played well, but otherwise the Viola looked tired (especially in the second half) and pretty much deserved to lose. And you know what I think? ...
Fiorentina 2 – PSV 0: And the Beat Goes On
By Ted | April 10th, 2008Today was just one of those days. It was one of those days where Spring was springing, the sun was shinning, and everyone on your favorite football team played their best match in months. It was the kind of game where your star forward scores two g ...
Fiorentina 1 – PSV 1: Match Recap
By Ted | April 4th, 2008Yesterday in Florence, Fiorentina drew PSV 1-1 in the first leg of their UEFA Cup quarter-final clash. The Viola played well and did the majority of the attacking, but had obvious trouble setting up and finishing their scoring. They also gave up a ...
Fiorentina: Tidbits
By Ted | March 20th, 2008After digesting last night’s loss, I thought I would just shoot a few bits and pieces of news your way before we get to the Lazio preview tomorrow. First, here is the Gazetta’s match summary of the game yesterday; since no one who wasn’t at the
Fiorentina: News and Notes
By Ted | March 17th, 2008After a good football day yesterday, today is a bit quiet on the newsfront. Here’s what’s happening in the purple world. We’ll start with a nice article explaining how the Great Man is satisfied with yesterday’s win. As he should be, presuma
Fiorentina v. Livorno: Tuscan Derby Time!
By Ted | February 26th, 2008On Wednesday at the Artemio Franchi Fiorentina will host their nearby rivals in a derby match that will be critical for the future success of both teams this season. Livorno, who haven’t won a game in their last five, are falling dangerously close to t
Rosenborg v. Fiorentina: Preview
By Ted | February 21st, 2008I am posting this preview kinda ‘last minute’ for a number of reasons. One is that I figured it would be lost in all the writing about the Champion’s League over the last few days. But also, frankly, I got a bit caught up in the CL action myself.
Rosenborg 0, Fiorentina 1: Match “Recap” (Well, Sorta)
By Ted | February 15th, 2008Yesterday Fiorentina gave a much-needed Valentine’s Day gift to their fans by defeating Rosenborg 1-0 in the first leg of their Round of 32 UEFA Cup tie. Rosenborg, (as Chris pointed out yesterday) is a pretty good club, so Fiorentina has to be satisfi
''I tell the future of Fiorentina''
By Ted | February 6th, 2008Well, not really. That is actually the name of an article I found on Violanews.com that was translated by the always amusing Google translator. It’s an interview with Fiorentina bigwig Andrea Della Valle, and while I do not think its gives us a crysta
News Round-Up As Donadoni Keeps Talking
By Martha | January 24th, 2008•In case you missed it, Atalanta beat Milan 2-1 yesterday despite, as often happens with Milan's opponents, having much less of the ball, and the worse of the play. (La Gazzetta gave Pato a 4.5. Nico Burdisso, who was lasted less than eight minutes befo
Parma falls to Fiorentina, 2 goals from ex-Gialloblu Mutu
By Francesco | January 14th, 2008Parma ended it's good run at home with a loss to 5th place Fiorentina, who got the win with two goals from Adrian Mutu, who was one of three people to be an ex-Parma player. Mutu, goalkeeper Sebastian Frey, and coach Cesare Prandelli were all with Par
A News Roundup of a (No Longer) Reasonable Size
By Martha | January 10th, 2008•The rumor mill tells us that Milan are planning a meeting with Emre's agent today. The Turk -- an ex-Inter player, you may recall -- is a reasonable man and therefore wants out of Newcastle, and Carlo Ancelotti is supposedly a big fan, Inter past notwi
Sampdoria v Fiorentina: Totally Effing Insane
By Martha | December 16th, 2007That refers to both the match and Antonio Cassano, but mostly to Cassano, who had a meltdown of truly spectacular proportions when he got a card (for dissent, of course) and realized he would be suspended for the Roma match next weekend. It was so bad it
Rumors to Distract Us As We Mourn For Frey's Knee
By Martha | December 13th, 2007•Sebastian Frey is having surgery tomorrow and will probably be out 6-8 weeks. That faint sound you hear is me weeping copiously. •And, continuing with the Fiorentina theme, Tomas Ujfalusi seems seconds from joining Sevilla, which is terrible timin
Palermo v Fiorentina: Revitalized Rosanero
By Martha | December 8th, 2007That was a ridiculously exciting match with each team dominating a half, but Palermo deserved the three points for their a wonderful all-round performance. From the start, the Rosanero were on the attack, and Fabrizio Miccoli looked wildly dangerous o
News Roundup as Milan Try Frantically to Find Michael Jordan's Number
By Martha | November 19th, 2007I'm traveling Tuesday morning; will get back to the grindstone as soon as is humanly possible. •Kaka's dreams: 1)To captain Brazil; 2)To meet Michael Jordan; 3)To win the Golden Ball. Not necessarily in that order. •Atalanta have suspended strik
Pre-Champions League News Roundup
By Martha | November 7th, 2007•Pippo Inzaghi's two goals yesterday moved him into a tie with Gerd Muller's record of 62 goals in UEFA matches, though it's taken him more matches than it took Muller. High five for Super Pippo. (I have this idea that Muller and Inzaghi are kindred spi
Raymond Domenech announces A', we are confused...
By Magnusson | August 21st, 2007Raymond Domenech announced the sixteen players playing for the French Natrional A' team tonight at 7PM against Slovakia A' in Senec, and there are some surprises. David Trézeguet and Djibril Cissé who are first team regualrs will play with the second te
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