

Articles tagged with "montolivo"
Montolivo gets cut, final roster of 23 submitted
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008As many people expected, the odd man out for the Azzurri is Riccardo Montolivo. The 23 year old midfielder had a chance of staying since ...
Fiorentina: News
By Ted | May 27th, 2008While I wait around for my baby to be born, and big things are happening elsewhere on the peninsula (I’m giddy at the thought of ...
Donadoni unveils Euro 2008 roster with 1 surprise.
By Francesco | May 20th, 2008For weeks we have wondered. Del Piero Yes? Del Piero No? Cassano Yes? Cassano No? Who will be the third keeper? Will Borriello Go? Will ...
Fiorentina: Silly Rumors and Real News
By Ted | May 8th, 2008With another few days before the second-to-last Viola game of the season (I am already starting to demonstrate withdrawal symptoms) I thought I would pass ...
Rangers Win and Create 100,000 New Celtic Fans in the Process
By Ted | May 1st, 2008I’m not going to recap the game. I’m too down right now to do it, and have no desire to live through that hell ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fiorentina v. Udinese: Preview
By Ted | March 28th, 2008On Sunday the Viola will travel to the Stadio Friuli for a potentially fantastic match against Udinese. Fiorentina currently sits in 4th place, just ...
Lazio - Fiorentina
By salvatore | March 21st, 2008L'unica squadra di Roma, Lazio, are heading to Florence today, hoping they can extend the renaissance that's taken hold over the last month. Confidence and ...
Fiorentina 2 – Everton 0: It’s Been a Good Week to be Wearing Purple
By Ted | March 6th, 2008Today at the Artemio Franchi Fiorentina defeated Everton 2-0 in the first leg of their UEFA Cup round-of-sixteen tie, putting them in solid position to ...
Oprah presents ; The Color Purple in Rome
By Marco | February 23rd, 2008Roma – Fiorentina That’s right; the color purple is coming to town and is bringing Adrian Mutu along. Oprah assures us that this encounter will be ...
Atalanta 2, Fiorentina 2: Viola Blow it at the Death
By Ted | February 9th, 2008Football can, at times, be an enormously complex game, but there are also relatively simple truisms that one can take from it. On of ...
Italia 2 - 1 Holland/Netherlands, Highlights and Bitching Beppe Rossi
By Marco | February 6th, 2008* Highlight further down Giuseppe Rossi scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win over reigning Euro Champions Holland/Netherlands. Rossi was the one ...
Azzurrini getting Ready for Beijing !
By Marco | February 5th, 2008The U21 Squad is facing Holland, in their first test since qualifying for the Beijing Olympics with their Penalty shoot out win against Portugal. The ...
Fiorentina 1, Lazio 2: Match Recap
By Ted | January 30th, 2008Today in front of tens of fans at the Artemio Franchi in Florence, Fiorentina lost the second leg of their tie with Lazio and thus ...
Riccardo Montolivo Doesn't Like Wayne Rooney
By chris | January 21st, 2008Are you sick of those continuous Wayne Rooney Nike spots where they keep trying to tell us the Roonster is soooo accurate, all while giving ...
Reggina v Fiorentina: Oh Good, a Scoreless Draw
By Martha | November 25th, 2007Well, Fiorentina got the dull away draw they apparently wanted -- it may have said 4-3-3 on paper, but what they actually played for most ...
Azzurri Call-ups: No Room for Del Piero
By Martha | October 7th, 2007Alex Del Piero will surely be thrilled to see Roberto Donadoni's list of call-ups for the upcoming Azzurri match* (a qualifier against Georgia and a ...
U21 Championship: Good News, Bad News for Italy
By Martha | June 11th, 2007On one hand, the opening of the U21 European Championship is great news for Italy: The country can show off its young stars and, ideally, ...
Not-So-Manic Monday
By Chris | June 11th, 2007Campioni D'Italia! The world-renowned AS Roma youth club strikes again. Congrats to the kids, who have won the Italian youth championship this weekend, defeating Sampdoria for ...
Spalletti & Afternoon Delight
By Chris | June 8th, 2007Luciano Spalletti (yeah, that's him) had a long interview on the tele today and il Romanista printed the dialogue. It wasn't exactly a sexy interview ...
Milan v Fiorentina: So Much Ability, So Little Actually Going On
By Martha | May 6th, 2007Despite my love for Fiorentina, I have to say Milan were unlucky not to take the full three points from this one -- not only ...
Hands up, Who Wants to be Giampaolo Pazzini?
By Martha | March 24th, 2007Let's see: Fastest goal (28 or 29 seconds, depending on who you ask) in the history of Wembley Stadium, first goal in the new Wembley, ...
No Surprises in Azzurri Squad for Scotland
By Martha | March 18th, 2007Roberto Donadoni today named his team for the Euro 2008 qualified against Scotland and, though it features two debutants, there really are no surprises in ...
Fiorentina v Empoli: All Hail the Viola!
By Martha | February 25th, 2007That's it, I'm officially falling in love with Fiorentina. I may have mentioned it a time or two before, but this team is good. They ...
Fiorentina v Udinese: Problemi Muscolare
By Martha | February 11th, 2007In case you were wondering why Luca Toni and Adrian Mutu were both absent from Fiorentina's teamsheet today, the above is your answer. Problemi muscolare. ...
Today's Milan Rumor Roundup, Or: Whatever Will We Do When the Transfer Window Closes?
By Martha | December 13th, 2006On any given day this week, I swear I read 10 different rumors about which players Milan will be bring in to rescue them from ...






