Articles tagged with "football"
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. ...
Can Sampdoria be the surprise of the season?
By Francesco | September 21st, 2009Since there is a mid-week round this Wednesday, I'll get a super Weekend Round-up post up on Thursday. If you look at the Serie A ...
The Renaissance of Roberto Baronio
By Francesco | September 17th, 2009Let's start by saying that Roberto Baronio isn't exactly a household name in Italian calcio. The casual fan may not even know who Roberto Baronio ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 3
By Francesco | September 15th, 2009Some nice goals this week. We're still very early into the season, but two possible goal of the year candidates were scored this weekend. Samuel ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 3
By Francesco | September 14th, 2009After 3 giornate, only 3 clubs are still at full points: Sampdoria, who defeated Atalanta 1-0 in Bergamo with a goal from Daniele Mannini; Juventus, ...
International week is boring
By Francesco | September 9th, 2009International week is boring. There's really no news from Serie A, and we get a week of Lippi dodging questions about Mourinho and Cassano. Here's ...
Video of the week: More Italian amateur football bloopers
By Francesco | September 4th, 2009In July I had already posted a video of the week with some Italian amateur calcio bloopers from the mid-90's. Well, I found even more ...
Looks like Amauri won't be Italian anytime soon
By Francesco | September 3rd, 2009By now he has made his decision. Amauri wants to play for the Italian national team. Dunga doesn't want to call him up for Brazil, ...
Looks like Amauri won't be Italian anytime soon
By Francesco | September 3rd, 2009By now he has made his decision. Amauri wants to play for the Italian national team. Dunga doesn't want to call him up for Brazil, ...
Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 2
By Francesco | September 1st, 2009It was a weekend of some nice goals. First, let's just say that Fabio Quagliarella ALMOST scored the goal of the season (he did however ...
Andrea Russotto - What happened to you?
By Francesco | August 31st, 2009Most Italian soccer fans should be familiar with the name of Andrea Russotto. As a youngster he was dubbed as "the next Roberto Baggio" and ...
Last Minute Mercato Madness
By Francesco | August 31st, 2009The Weekend Round-up will be up tomorrow since today was the last day of the summer transfer market and teams made last minute deals. Many ...
Casiraghi makes U-21 Qualifying call-ups with 6 new faces
By Francesco | August 28th, 2009The new Italy U-21 side (who lost their first friendly August 12 vs. Russia 3-2) will now start qualifying for the 2011 UEFA U-21 European ...
Champions League Draw gifts us with Milan vs. Kaka and Inter vs. Ibra
By Francesco | August 27th, 2009The Champions League draw always provides entertainment. Even though the random drawing and the whole ceremony is fairly boring, it's always interesting because it always ...
Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 1
By Francesco | August 25th, 2009Serie A is back which means Goals of the Week is back! You can't always expect the first day of the season to have the ...
Serie A 2009/2010 Weekend Round-up: Giornata 1
By Francesco | August 24th, 2009Serie A is back and so is the the weekly Serie A Weekend Round-up which will come your way every Monday wrapping up the weekend ...
Things to look out for in the 2009/2010 Serie A season
By Francesco | August 21st, 2009I just got back from vacation so I won't have time to put up a mega Serie A preview like I would've wanted, but by ...
Vacation Time.
By Francesco | August 2nd, 2009Well, it's that time of the summer again. I'm off to the old country tomorrow, so the blog will be inactive for a couple of ...
Two out of contract veterans finally find a home
By Francesco | July 31st, 2009It was made known pretty early that the contracts of Julio Cruz and Christian Panucci were not going to be renewed by Inter and Roma ...
Serie A 2009/2010 Schedule released
By Francesco | July 29th, 2009Today the schedule was released for the 2009/2010 season. Lega Calcio finally decided to do the schedule EPL-style, with no seeding for teams, which meant ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 6: Eto'o has arrived, another American will arrive
By Francesco | July 28th, 2009Before we dive into Serie A transfer news, I just want to report on a transfer from Serie B that as fairly important, which was ...
Giuseppe Rossi was a Milan player for a couple of seconds
By Francesco | July 27th, 2009Yep, it's true, for a couple of seconds today Giuseppe Rossi was a Milan player. Just a couple of moments ago various radio stations in ...
Video of the week: Italian amateur football bloopers
By Francesco | July 23rd, 2009It's the summer, and that means summer friendlies. And most Italian clubs (the ones that don't go abroad and play in makeshift tournaments vs other ...
You know its preseason and there's nothing to report about when...
By Francesco | July 22nd, 2009Today I was doing my usual calcio news surfing and I saw something on calciomercato.com that made me laugh. The headline read "Roma, Incidente Rosi" ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 5: Arrivederci Ibra?
By Francesco | July 21st, 2009So the big transfer news in recent days is the deal between Inter and Barcelona to swap Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o. The deal is ...
Goal.com's Serie A Team of the Decade. Do you agree?
By Francesco | July 20th, 2009Let me just start out by saying that I have never liked Goal.com (the English version at least. The Italian version is actually pretty good ...
Donadoni the Dictator?
By Francesco | July 17th, 2009When Roberto Donadoni was the coach of the Italian national team, I think pretty much everyone thought he had the personality of a brick wall. ...
Er... What Just Happened?
By Johonna | July 15th, 2009Here we were, having fun in LA, horsing around and getting ready for our very first match of the new season, when WHAM! In swoop ...
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