Articles tagged with "italy"
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. ...
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 ...
How the Bundesliga Could Take Serie A's Fourth Champions League Spot
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009I'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, 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 ...
Daily Dose: September 3rd, 2009.
By chris | September 3rd, 2009Stuff 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, 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, ...
Mid-Week News Dump
By Johonna | September 3rd, 2009This International break could not come at a worse time. Here we are, all pumped up after our first win of the season and now ...
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 ...
Friday Ramblings
By Thomas | August 28th, 2009Important stuff first: Landon Donovan doesn't want to come to PSG after all, and no one wants Rothen anymore. Since I'm still relatively new here ...
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 ...
Jose Mourniho Gets A New Playmate In Marcello Lippi
By chris | August 19th, 2009With Carlo Ancelotti gone to his former beloved and Claudio Ranieri off on a beach collecting unemployment and sangrias, Jose Mourinho needed a new target ...
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 ...
Joke of the Day
By Michele | July 31st, 2009Arsene Wenger's preferred midfield target this summer is the Roma and Italy midfielder Daniele De Rossi, and despite the Italian club's reluctance to sell Arsenal ...
A promising sign.
By Jason | July 30th, 2009BIG NEWS! This summer is heating up for Parma. Even after the 2-1 defeat in a recent friendly, there is something to smile ...
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 ...
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