Articles tagged with "italy"

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The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino

By Francesco | November 6th, 2009

One 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, 2009

Roma-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, 2009

A 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, 2009

Napoli 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, 2009

Fabrizio 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, 2009

Although 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, 2009

I 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, 2009

The 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, 2009

This 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, 2009

The 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, 2009

After 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, 2009

First, 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, 2009

As 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, 2009

Sorry 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, 2009

This 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, 2009

It'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, 2009

I'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, 2009

Sampdoria 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, 2009

I 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, 2009

Despite 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, 2009

Lots 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, 2009

Since 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, 2009

Let'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 ...

How the Bundesliga Could Take Serie A's Fourth Champions League Spot

By Daryl | September 17th, 2009

I'm not a huge fan of the UEFA Champions League group stages, especially not in the early matches as it all feels a bit pointless. ...

Goals of the Week: Giornata 3

By Francesco | September 15th, 2009

Some 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, 2009

After 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, 2009

International 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, 2009

In 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 ...

Daily Dose: September 3rd, 2009.

By chris | September 3rd, 2009

Stuff to read while you watch Nike's continued focus on the Brazilian kit.... The La Liga debut on ESPN netted a decent audience. (Unprofessional Foul) The skinny ...

Looks like Amauri won't be Italian anytime soon

By Francesco | September 3rd, 2009

By 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, ...

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