Articles tagged with "pizarro"
Pizza Man: Where The Party At?
By Jack | March 31st, 2008Claudio Pizarro, who last week was suspended for 18 months from the Peruvian national team by the nation's World Cup commission for allegedly raging after a game with Brazil in November, released a statement late Sunday denying the allegations. Pizz ...
This Just In: Pizarro Struggling
By Jack | March 1st, 2008Thanks to investigative reporter Noberto Solano, we now know what has been plaguing Chelsea striker Claudio Pizarro. "Chelsea is always a tough game and I'm looking forward to it but Claudio's situation is not the best and he is finding it difficult,â€
Gut Check Time Baby
By robert | February 26th, 2008Serie A, Round 25 Who: Inter Milan vs. Roma When: Wednesday, February 27th 2:30 pm ET Where: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza WARNING: This shit may get out of hand. Those seven words basically describe this game. The two top clubs in the Serie A, 90 minutes
Things We Learned & Hope To Learn From Serie A
By chris | February 26th, 2008Things We Learned last Weekend In Serie A Cesare Prandelli is sexified. Look at that outfit. Purple on purple. Who the hell can pull that off besides Cesare? Nobody. That's who. Now, if only he could bestow some of that superior fashion knowledge
Well, That Was Undeserved
By Jack | January 20th, 2008Midway through the second half I said to myself, "we're going to lose this game."Â Â And on performance alone, we probably should have. Chelsea struggled to a 1-0 win over Birmingham on Saturday in what can only be described as one of the worst perform
Champions League: Ragged Win for Inter, Last-Gasp Draw for Roma
By Martha | November 7th, 2007Things started out ugly in Milan today, with Inter looking dangerously casual and going down 2-0 in the first half hour, thanks to great goals by the Brazilian duo of Jô (who seems to own Inter) and Vágner Love. When the match ended, though, Inter had w
Ooh, Baby I Love Your Ways, or: Down To Business
By chris | September 21st, 2007This is going to be one of those rare days in between game previews, recaps and diaries over the next few weeks, so let's kick back, relax and have a cappuccino, sambuca, Tia Maria and Red Bull concoction courtesy of the second biggest cokehead in Sicily
Season Preview: Midfielders
By chris | August 23rd, 2007Midfield, the bread and butter of Luciano Spalletti's 4-2-3-1 attacking system. One of those systems where the players fit the system, not vice versa, a lot of guys on the squad can fill in adequately at a few position. Essentially divided into two differ
Aquilani Has Arrived & Real Lost Their Mind
By chris | August 21st, 2007(Still my favorite picture of any I've used here at the offside - My Boy) I'm In A Mood And I feel Like Starting A Debate: Guess what? Alberto Aquilani just relegated David Pizarro to discussing the plight of the Italian at Inter on the pine with Gi
Roma Nabs Swiss Superstud?
By chris | August 5th, 2007In case you missed it, Roma outplayed West Ham yesterday, but still lost. Good @#$%. Pseduo-semi recap here. And the head of the Roma Offside A/V Dep't, Stefan(o), has provided us with highlights once again. Methinks Philou would like to have that moment
Pizarro FINALLY Trains And Gets the No.14 Shirt
By Andy | July 24th, 2007With the Copa America getting in the way it took until today for Peruvian International Claudio Pizarro to be unveiled as a Chelsea player and manager Jose Mourinho presented Pizarro the No.14 shirt which had belonged to Geremi who has now gone off to
A Preview Of @#$% Hitting The Fan
By Chris | June 21st, 2007Updates: Stop the presses. Juan is official! Holy crap this came out of nowhere. The official number is €6.3m, great deal considering his quality and the original numbers had it between €8-9m. Also, it looks like Roma bought all of Vucinic, just in
Pizarro, Chivu & Le Buste (Holy Christmas)
By Chris | June 20th, 2007The Shenanigans: Alright, yesterday there was some premature reporting of a Christian Chivu deal sending the Romanian to Internazionale and Roma spending more than half of the inherited sum (6.5m) on David Pizarro's remaining half contract. I purported
Today in Chivu, Or: The Transfer Market Isn't Even Open, and Already This is Totally Out of Control
By Martha | June 20th, 2007As RomaChris and various frantic Big Soccer posters reported last night, there was a brief on Tuesday during which Il Romanista (I'd sarcastically say they're published by the same people who bring us Tuttosport if I didn't think that was actually true, b
Chivu Not Headed To Inter: Retracted
By Chris | June 19th, 2007il Romanista have retracted their initial story about a done deal with Christian Chivu to Inter and replaced it with one saying that David Pizarro may come to Roma for 6.5m euros, and only after that would Chivu be discussed. At which point his price woul
Fab Quag's Is Hot & Heavy For Roma
By Chris | June 19th, 2007Update: Sampdoria have reportedly bought out Udinese's half of Fab Quag's for around 6m euros. This is very surprising, because a 12m pricetag is easily doable for Roma, especially if they're interested in sending other players to Doria. Also promising be
Inter Sucks & Other Similarly Intelligent Musings
By Chris | June 14th, 2007It's now pseudo-quasi-official, David Suazo has signed for Moratti's Mercenaries and will join the other 87 strikers on the Inter depth chart. That's not the news. The news is that Roma apparently blew the deal by being "polite." We know Roma was asked no
The Gossip & Pit (But It's Pronounced 'Piz')
By Chris | June 13th, 2007Roma has officially signed their first target of the season, Romanian winger Adrian Pit from second division Swiss club Bellinzona! Start printing up those championship t-shirts! Now this is the type of signing Roma needed to make to push themselves over
Afternoon Updates
By Chris | June 7th, 2007The not so sexy transfer rumors that have evolved throughout the day: a) Yaya Toure wants to move to Inter, Barca, Roma or Lyon. Really? I'd like to pluck random members of the G14 and tell everybody I'd like to play for them too. But honestly Yaya cou
Taking Care Of This Christian Chivu Thing Right Now
By Chris | June 2nd, 2007There are reports that Christian Chivu is close to being sold to Inter for Walter Samuel, David Pizarro and roughly 5m euros. Here are the facts: - Chivu is currently in negotiations to extend his contract but wants assurances the Sensi family is going t
Inter: New Graduates of the Juventus School of Valuation
By Chris | May 30th, 2007A few nuggets for today: 1. The front page of Il Romanista reports this morning of an offer from Internazionale. Nothing new, they have always coveted Roma players. What's new here is the offer. And take to heart Il Romanista is the newspaper of AS Rom
Roma Tells Lyon's Fred: Thanks, But No Thanks
By Chris | May 25th, 2007This is my favorite part of the summer. When legitimate news comes out of absolutely nowhere with nary a rumor. Il Romanista reports this morning that Roma and Lyon had discussed a move regarding their prolific Brazilian striker, one Frederico Chaves Gued
Totti: Birth of a Dynasty
By Chris | May 19th, 2007“This trophy won’t be the last, but only the first of a long line that must follow.” As I read this quote I picture Totti standing in the center of the Colosseum, wearing his gladiator outfit as he looks around into the empty stands. In the bac
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