Articles tagged with "italy"
Sampdoria-Juventus, Cassano and Del Piero plead their case to Donadoni
By Francesco | May 17th, 2008Because of the Pope's visit to Genoa, Sampdoria-Juventus had to be played today at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Samp were closing out a good year, where they impressed under Walter Mazzarri, even challenging for the Champions League spot at various ...
Empoli – Livorno, Who Cares ? (Honestly ? Tell Me)
By Marco | May 17th, 2008This will not be a regular irregular preview. There’s nothing left to play for, not even pride. I mean Livorno’s season is already in the gutter. The only high point was that mini non losing streak after GC Camolese’s appointment earlier this s ...
Video of the Week: Last Day Scudetto Antics
By Francesco | May 16th, 2008I decided, since this weekend Inter and Roma play crucial games on the last day of the season to decide the Scudetto, to post two videos of what happened to both teams the last time they were in the same situation. (Having to win on the last day ...
Giovinco states for the 10,679,564th time that he wants to go to Juve
By Francesco | May 15th, 2008The "Atomic Ant" Sebastian Giovinco has basically said in every interview this season that he wants to go back and play for Juve this summer. So what did the pint sized fantasista say in his latest interview to Calcio 2000 magazine? "I hope J ...
ESPN Ads Aim to Lure Americans into Watching Euro 2008
By Laurie | May 14th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7fKzasYjA[/youtube] ESPN has unveiled its new ad campaign for Euro 2008, and I like it. They currently shine the spotlight on five teams: Portugal (pictured),Greece, Italy, Spain and Germany. And wh ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/14/08
By Francesco | May 14th, 2008Here's what I found interesting today: -Livorno director Elio Signorelli assumed some responsibility for Livorno's relegation to Serie B. Why? Because he was the one that chose Livorno's strikeforce over the summer. He said that he was sure th ...
Donadoni "preliminary roster" supposedly found
By Francesco | May 13th, 2008For the past few days, many newspapers have been making predictions about what Roberto Donadoni's final roster for Euro 2008 will look like. These rosters are purely speculation and shouldn't be trusted at all. Although yesterday, the newspaper I ...
Roma hopes survive, Milan one match from missing CL
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008With all the attention focused on Premier League D-Day, the penultimate round of Serie A competition may have been hurting a bit for neutral viewers. What it was not short on was drama and surprises, and next week's final day in Italy is now set ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 10th, 2008Here we are at the penultimate day of the 2007/2008 Serie A season. It has been a long, interesting season with lots of battles in the table but this second to last day is really becoming more important than the last day, because lots of scenario ...
Video of the Week: Great Serie A Goals
By Francesco | May 9th, 2008I thought I'd start posting a video of the week. This week we travel back in time to the 1990s, when the Serie A was arguably the best league in the world. In this video we'll see some of the greatest goals in Serie A in the '90s. ...
Nazionale News
By Francesco | May 7th, 2008Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven't they ever heard of bug spray?), so the FIGC has contacted the clubs of 48 players that Donadoni has on his ...
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 ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/6/08
By Francesco | May 6th, 2008Here is todays main news from around the Peninsula: - First let's start off with news that can severely hurt two teams. The Disciplinary Committee handed out it's weekly suspensions and it doesn't look good for Livorno. Livorno, who will most ...
The Hellas Verona Tragedy
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008Hey Italy Offside Readers, this nice post comes from Steven of the Palermo Offside. He writes about the decline of storied club Hellas Verona. The Hellas Verona Tragedy I don't know about you guys, but one of the things that sparked my i ...
Farewell Bobo Vieri?
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008There is no denying that Christian (Bobo) Vieri in the late 1990's and early 2000's was one of, if not the deadliest striker in the world. The Aussie-born striker was a goalscoring machine, and scored with such ease. He would just power past defe ...
Atalanta 3 - 2 Livorno ; The Fat Lady is getting Ready to Sing !
By Marco | May 5th, 2008What a frustrating game !!! The only reason I’m not extremely pissed off right now is because we’re still mathematically in the running towards being Serie A next non-relegated team. Chances are looking crappy but it's still a possibi ...
Atalanta-Livorno, An Ode to Salvation
By Marco | May 3rd, 2008*this photo pretty much sums up our Serie A situation So it doesn’t get more meaningful than this. Livorno need to head into Bergamo with a knife in their teeth and all cylinders going. This game is THE game of the season, until next wee ...
Marcello Lippi Is Not Worried About Making English Friends
By chris | May 1st, 2008Marcello Lippi has earned a ton of respect in the last decade, with a trophy cabinet enough to make any coach blush. When Lippi speaks, people listen. One of the few coaches to be worthy of sitting at the same table is another Italian in Fabio Capell ...
Sampdoria fan hit with ball, wants to be reimbursed
By Francesco | April 30th, 2008Funny (and peculiar) story out of Genoa today. A Sampdoria fan has asked for 280 euro from Sampdoria midfielder and captain Angelo Palombo (pictured) for an injury he suffered to his finger after a ball struck by Palombo landed in the stands. Mos ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 4/30/2008
By Francesco | April 30th, 2008Here's the news that passed the filter test for today: - Let's start with the man pictured to the left, Sebastian Giovinco. He has for the 187,786th time this season reiterated that he wants to return to Juventus at the end of the season. Ta ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes
By Francesco | April 29th, 2008Everyday I search literally every Italian calcio news site and read the news and rumors of the day. Here are the most interesting things I found today from my scrounging around: - The Intertoto Cup, which only a few seasons ago was considered ...
The Events of 5 Maggio that nobody talks about
By Francesco | April 29th, 2008Hey, everyone, it's Francesco from the Parma Offside. Since Chris has been busy and hasn't been able to update the Italy Offside, I will now handle the duties and hope to give you guys news about Calcio every day. Here's my first post, it's about the ...
We're in deep trouble
By Francesco | April 28th, 2008Just as things couldn't get any worse, they did. More after the jump. HIGHLIGHTS As you can see, Parma lost a crucial game to Reggina 2-1, and now we have at least one foot in Serie B. Cigarini put us ahead with a penalty, then Paci de ...
GC Camolese Feels Aldo’s Wrath, Nando Orsi’s Back.
By Marco | April 28th, 2008Fernando Orsi returns to the exact same situation that saw him lose his job earlier this season; a last placed Livorno Squad. The Burgundy Boys had a nice stretch under GC Camolese ; Picking up 2 points against Roma and 3 against Milan. Not t ...
Livorno 1 - 4 AC Milan, Pippo Picks Up Points at The Picchi
By Marco | April 27th, 2008Sorry about the non-non-preview guys… I didn’t get the chance to see the game, but I’m sure Vincent, who was at the Armando Picchi for this game, will insert some juicy tidbits in the comment thread once he sobers up from the high (or Lo ...
Grosso-Gate
By Inara | April 22nd, 2008Fabio Grosso doesn't have many admirers in France. Lyon fans don't think he's good enough for the club while non-Lyon fans don't like him because he's that Italian from the World Cup. Even the media like picking on him, as they spend a lot of time cr ...
We're in Trouble
By Francesco | April 20th, 2008Today's loss to Napoli was a bad one. More after the jump. HIGHLIGHTS: This may be one of the games that decides a season. This was a bad loss. It was a sloppy game, and none of the players played well except for Luca Bucci. The whole ...
Livorno – Roma, an easy 3 points for the Tuscans
By Marco | April 18th, 2008Finally a game Livorno can easily get points from. Roma is one of the crappiest teams in Serie A, and has been for the last couple of years now. The red and yellows have a bunch of no names and has-beens on their squad so Livorno will easily be a ...
Daily Dose 04.17.08
By Daryl | April 17th, 2008Something to read while you strike a pose from your youth... A trip to the San Siro (BnA ItalyLogue) Why everyone is against Zaragoza (La Liga Review) Who was the first team to play soccer in the US? (The Global Game) Fabio fires a warning (Soc ...
Loss to Juve, didn't expect much anyway.
By Francesco | April 17th, 2008Parma lost to Juventus 3-0, but it was a game that the Gialloblu' were not really expecting much anyway. The Coop decided that this game was a good time to play some subs, and give the starters a rest. Realistically Parma were never going ...
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