Articles tagged with "calcio"
The Curse of the August Friendly continues
By Francesco | August 20th, 2008The annual August friendly is not really something Azzurri fans look forward too. In Italy, people are away vacationing at the beach and therefore are ...
Weekend Wrap-up: Call-ups, Coppa, and Trofeo Berlusconi
By Francesco | August 18th, 2008As each week passes Serie A gets closer and closer. This was basically the final week of the preseason, as this week there are National ...
Lumezzane president a little bitter about Balotelli
By Francesco | August 15th, 2008So as we know by now, 18 year old phenom Mario Balotelli finally received his Italian citizenship at a ceremony at the town hall in ...
Surprise Call-ups from Lippi this weekend?
By Francesco | August 14th, 2008This Saturday the second coming of Lippi happens. The cigar smoking, Paul Newman look-a-like will make his call-ups for the August 20th friendly vs. Austria ...
Video of the week: Italy's top 100 goals at the World Cup
By Francesco | August 12th, 2008With the Olympics going on and National Team fever ready to sweep back in when Lippi makes his first call-ups of his second tenure on ...
Olympic dream over for Rocchi and Marchisio
By Francesco | August 12th, 2008He was the surprise call-up to begin with. Everyone looked at Casiraghi's Olympic call-ups and said with a puzzled look, "Rocchi?" (come on, you know ...
The Slave Camp at Lazio
By Francesco | August 8th, 2008This has been news in the calcio world recently. When Lazio first met up for pre-season training in mid-July, coach Delio Rossi made a list ...
Giovinco scores a Golazzo and the Azzurrini ease past Honduras
By Francesco | August 7th, 2008Italy defeated Honduras 3-0 in their first group match of the 2008 Summer Olympics and got off to a great start. Pierluigi Casiraghi actually surprised ...
Azzurrini ready to kick-off in Beijing
By Francesco | August 6th, 2008For all those people that since June 22, 2008 have been anxiously waiting to see the Azzurri back in action, those weeks of anticipation are ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 8/5/08
By Francesco | August 5th, 2008Here's the calcio news that I thought was most interesting today: -Luciano Spalletti said that: "Our club can't just go out and buy whoever it wants, ...
Job Cuts in the Calcio Dungeons
By chris | August 4th, 2008To combat the number of clubs finding financial instability and even going belly up, Lega Pro, the new name for Serie C1 & C2 in ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 7/31/08
By Francesco | July 31st, 2008Here's what I scrounged around for today: -Milan striker Marco Borriello has been operated on and will now start his recovery. Reports are he will be ...
Milan win Trofeo TIM
By Francesco | July 29th, 2008Today at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin the Trofeo TIM was held between Juventus, Inter, and Milan. It was a triangular tournament with each game ...
per chiarire che cosa è molto molto italiano
By Tommaso | July 28th, 2008I 100% am happy , good and bad to see Us Southern Italianos debating with such passione! But without going too deep on my reply ...
5 Things I learned about Calcio when I was in Rome
By Francesco | July 8th, 20081. The stereotype is pretty much true. The stereotype in Rome is that in the city of Rome most people are Roma fans, while Lazio fans ...
Potential Match Fixing In Italy
By chris | July 5th, 2008What's that I smell? Is that...Luciano Moggi? More questions now surrounding thaegitimacy of two matches in Serie A this season, after a year of refereeing which ...
I'm back, full speed ahead starting Monday
By Francesco | July 2nd, 2008Ciao a tutti! I've returned from my month long trip to Italy. It was a great trip however the only problem was that Italy didn't win ...
Arrivederci
By Francesco | May 30th, 2008Well, it's summer. And summer usually means vacation. So although I love writing about calcio here daily on the Offside, I'm leaving for Rome tonight ...
Borriello is all Milan, Gila is all Viola, Cassano is all Samp, and more news
By Francesco | May 29th, 2008Some interesting transfer news and notes today. Marco Borriello will wear the Rossonero jersey once again, as Milan sealed the deal with Genoa yesterday. The ...
Parma start Serie B with Cagni
By Francesco | May 29th, 2008This is some good news that shows Tommaso Ghirardi is serious about getting the Gialloblu back up to Serie A. Luigi "Gigi" Cagni has been ...
Serie A 2008/2009 schedule released
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008Today the Serie A 2008-2009 schedule was released. The season will begin on August 31st and end on May 31st. There will be three midweek ...
Serie B makes roster changes and other news from the second division
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008Serie B (which I still consider to be Europe's top second division) has made some changes for next season regarding squad size. Even though they ...
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 ...
Italy marches on in Toulon and Inter-Roma once again tomorrow
By Francesco | May 23rd, 2008Yes, tomorrow, Inter and Roma do battle yet again, this time in the Coppa Italia final at the Stadio Olimpico. This is the 4th ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/22/08
By Francesco | May 22nd, 2008Let's start the news round-up with some news from yesterday. -The Italian Olympic Team (the U21's with a few overage players) is currently participating in ...
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 ...
Italy Offside Serie A End of Season Awards
By Francesco | May 19th, 2008So now that the season has come to a close, let's get everyones opinion on who was the best at everything. We'll use the Oscar ...
Serie A Final Day: Ibra wins it for Inter, Fiorentina grabs 4th spot, Empoli and Parma wave goodbye to Serie A
By Francesco | May 18th, 2008And that's a wrap folks. Serie A 2007-2008 is officially over. (Cue some graduation song, or some goodbye song). If you don't have time to ...
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, ...
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 ...
Home 
