Articles tagged with "calcio"
Costinha plays for Atalanta. Oh you didn't know? Neither did anybody.
By Francesco | November 19th, 2009As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of ...
Gazzetta editor's 10 questions he demands Lippi answer
By Francesco | November 18th, 2009The Gazzetta dello Sport is arguably the most famous sports newspaper in Italy, selling more copies than rivals Corriere dello Sport and Tuttosport. It is ...
Bobo Vieri is going to live in Brazil for a couple of months, and play some football on the side.
By Francesco | November 16th, 2009Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all ...
Pitch Invader wants Cassano
By Francesco | November 15th, 2009I know, the Cassano-National Team debate is getting old and boring. But this was too funny. In the 5th minute of the game yesterday, a ...
Azzurrini lose to Hungary, qualification in doubt, worst Italy U-21 team of all time?
By Francesco | November 13th, 2009The Italy U-21's continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back ...
Lippi-Cassano: The Real Reason?
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Since Lippi has taken over the national team for a second time, the big question has always been, "Why aren't you calling up Antonio Cassano?" ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 12
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Fairly good week for goals, as only one game finished 0-0 (Catania-Napoli, but ask Takayuki Morimoto about that). The top scorer table is still wide ...
Serie A and B Weekend Round-up: Giornata 12
By Francesco | November 9th, 2009Milan has really jumped up the table these past few weeks. After the horrible start where everyone condemned the Rossoneri to a season of misery, ...
Inter v Roma: Dipende da Noi
By Johonna | November 7th, 2009Just as it should, this game gets top billing this weekend. Say what you will about Roma, for some reason they always bring it when ...
The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino
By Francesco | November 6th, 2009One of the players playing extremely well at the moment is Genoa fantasista Raffaele Palladino. Palladino has always been a player that could do things ...
Great Serie A Games: Roma-Inter 1998/99
By Francesco | November 4th, 2009Roma-Inter from May of 1999 is another highly entertaining game from one of the most entertaining Serie A seasons of all time. The 1998-99 season ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 11
By Francesco | November 3rd, 2009A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 11
By Francesco | November 2nd, 2009Napoli won vs. Juventus in Torino for the first time since November 20, 1988, when Maradona's Napoli won 5-3. Since then, there had been 11 ...
Fabrizio Miccoli: Giant Killer
By Francesco | October 30th, 2009Fabrizio Miccoli has really become the undisputed leader of Palermo. The diminutive fantasista, or il Romario del Salento as he is so aptly nicknamed, has ...
The Biggest Serie A Flops of the Last 9 years
By Francesco | October 29th, 2009Although we are only 10 games into the season, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is starting to look more and more like a big flop. 15 million euro ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 9
By Francesco | October 27th, 2009I didn't put up a Weekend Round-up yesterday because I figured with the midweek round tomorrow, it would be pointless to update everything twice. So ...
Great Serie A Games: Roma-Juve 2003/2004
By Francesco | October 22nd, 2009The Great Serie A Game posts continue with Roma-Juve 2003/2004. The 2003/2004 season was an interesting one. Milan, fresh from a Champions League victory and ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 8
By Francesco | October 20th, 2009This is going to be a good goals of the week post. There are many nice goals, and in particular the goals from Stankovic and ...
Serie A and B Weekend Round-up: Giornata 8
By Francesco | October 19th, 2009The picture on the left is the photo sequence of Dejan Stankovic's 54 meter long strike vs Genoa on Saturday. Marco Amelia messed up his ...
Video of the Week: Gila
By Francesco | October 16th, 2009After the international break, the man of the moment is undoubtedly Alberto Gilardino. The Fiorentina striker scored 4 goals in 2 matches with the Azzurri, ...
Great Serie A Games: Inter-Sampdoria 2004/2005
By Francesco | October 13th, 2009First, the international week is incredibly boring. Second, I thought I'd start a new post here on the Italy Offside: Great Serie A games. A ...
Roberto Donadoni: What's his deal?
By Francesco | October 7th, 2009As everyone knows by now, Roberto Donadoni was relieved of his duties as Napoli manager and was replaced by former Sampdoria boss Walter Mazzarri. We ...
Goals of the week: Giornata 7
By Francesco | October 6th, 2009Sorry I didn't get up a weekend round-up yesterday, it was a really busy day. However I don't want to disrupt the weekly order so ...
Little Italy is present in the Bulgarian First Division
By Francesco | October 2nd, 2009This was an interesting story I came across today. Apparently there is a "Little Italy" of sorts in the Bulgarian First Division (official named the ...
Bari's American takeover falls through
By Francesco | October 1st, 2009It's not old news that the Matarrese family wants to sell Bari. Although they have been in charge of the Pugliese club since 1977, they ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 6
By Francesco | September 29th, 2009I'm just going to throw it out there: this might be the worst goals of the week post of all time. Nothing spectacular at all ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 6
By Francesco | September 28th, 2009Sampdoria are top of the table alone for the first time in 18 years. A week ago I wrote an article saying that Sampdoria could ...
Video of the week: Serie A Bloopers (including a mistake by Buffon!)
By Francesco | September 25th, 2009I always like to watch videos of bloopers, and this time I've found a Serie A blooper video from the early 2000's. Always entertaining, and ...
U-20 World Cup starts tomorrow for Italy
By Francesco | September 24th, 2009Despite having a strong U-21 side, Italy's other youth national teams don't really have a glorious history. All of Italy's youth focus is directed to ...
Goals of the week: Giornata 4
By Francesco | September 22nd, 2009Lots of goals scored this week, with only one 0-0 draw (Napoli-Udinese) and many teams scoring 3+ goals. There were some nice ones this week. ...
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