Articles tagged with "player-profiles"
The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino
By Francesco | November 6th, 2009One of the players playing extremely well at the moment is Genoa fantasista Raffaele Palladino. Palladino has always been a player that could do things ...
Video of the Week: Gila
By Francesco | October 16th, 2009After the international break, the man of the moment is undoubtedly Alberto Gilardino. The Fiorentina striker scored 4 goals in 2 matches with the Azzurri, ...
Young and Younger: Introducing Genc & Besara
By Luka | October 8th, 2009Mattias Genc Born: May 6, 1989 Position: Striker Height: 180 cm Weight: 74 kg First club: Assyriska FF Season 2009: 2 matches, 1 goal Like Nahir Besara, Genc is a local ...
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 ...
Player Profile: Emílson Cribari
By Franco | September 6th, 2009Full name: Emílson Sánchez Cribari Date of birth: 6th March 1980 (age 29) Place of birth: Cambará, Brazil Height: 1.85 m Playing position: Central Defender Shirt Number: 25 Career to date: 1996 ...
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 ...
Player Profile: Christian Brocchi
By Franco | August 26th, 2009Full name: Christian Brocchi Date of birth: 30th January 1976 (age 33) Place of birth: Milan, Italy Height: 1.71 m Playing position: Defensive Midfilder Shirt Number: 32 Career to date: 1994 until ...
Player Profile: Modibo Diakité
By Franco | August 12th, 2009Full name: Modibo Diakité Date of birth: 2 March 1987 (age 22) Place of birth:Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine, France Height:1.92 m Playing position: Central Defender Shirt Number: 87 Career to date: 2005 until 2006 ...
Player Profile: Sebastiano Siviglia
By Franco | August 6th, 2009Full name: Sebastiano Siviglia Date of birth: 29 March 1973 (age 36) Place of birth: Palizzi, Italy Height: 1.82 m Playing position: Central Defender Shirt Number: 13 Career to date: 1989 until ...
Player Profile: Aleksandar Kolarov
By Franco | August 3rd, 2009Full name: Aleksandar Kolarov Date of birth: 10th November 1985 (age 23) Place of birth: Belgrade, Yugoslavia Height: 1.87 m Playing position: Left Back Previous Shirt Number: 3 Current Shirt Number: ...
Player Profile: Stephan Lichtsteiner
By Franco | July 27th, 2009Full name: Stephan Lichtsteiner Date of birth: January 16, 1984 (age 25) Place of birth: Adligenswil, Switzerland Height: 1.81 m Playing position: Right back Shirt Number: 2 Career to date: 2001 until ...
Player Profile: Fernando Muslera
By Franco | July 20th, 2009I would like to welcome you to my very first Blog on the Lazio Offside. Some of you may of seen me around in ...
30 Italian promising players to keep an eye on
By Francesco | July 15th, 2009Often we see a young player explode onto the calcio scene and everyone turns heads and says "Where did this kid come from?". Well, now ...
Vincenzo Montella hangs up his boots
By Francesco | July 2nd, 2009Today it was reported that at 35 years of age, Roma striker Vincenzo Montella has decided to retire. Montella was one of the best strikers ...
The Explosion of Gaetano D'Agostino
By Francesco | May 22nd, 2009When you read news about Serie A you always hear about the big stars and how they are performing, but you rarely hear about other ...
Player Profile: Moretto
By Carlos | December 19th, 2008Moretto #31 Club Team Marcelo Moretto de Souza, Moretto was born on May 10, 1978 (age 30) in El Dorado, ...
Player Profile: Moreira
By Carlos | December 10th, 2008Moreira #1 Club José Filipe da Silva Moreira was born in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal on March 20, 1982 (age 26). Moreira played football throughout his young ...
Player Profile: Quim
By Carlos | December 3rd, 2008Starting today this page will be posting player profiles of each Benfica player so you can get to know them better. Posts of these will ...
Great Italian Players: Ciro Ferrara
By Francesco | September 23rd, 2008In the modern game you always hear stories of players being prima donnas or trying to get a bigger contract or making a move to ...
Great Italian Players: Giuseppe Signori
By Francesco | September 16th, 2008Beppe was born on February 17, 1968 in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo. As did most Italian boys, he loved to play and watch soccer. His own ...
Player Profile: Marcell Jansen
By Angela | August 20th, 2008Marcell Jansen signed with Bayern in 2007 and I was pretty excited. Not only did he add to our growing list of boys with ...
Player Profile: Miroslav Klose
By Angela | August 7th, 2008Here we are back in the Player Profile section and I figured since I kicked off with Mark, what better way to follow up than ...
Player Profile: Mark van Bommel
By Angela | August 4th, 2008Since Dish Network has disappointed my Bundesliga Loving American self by canceling their contract with Gol TV, I am going to start my player profiles ...
Lyon Tell Patrick Muller To Pack His Bags
By Inara | April 11th, 2008First off, apologies for not getting to this sooner, but thanks to a particularly nasty strain of flu, I've been too tired to do much ...
Poll: Right Backs Playing Musical Chairs
By Inara | February 27th, 2008If you're like me, you're undecided about who our starting right back should be. We have two good ones in Anthony Réveillère and François Clerc. ...
Toulalan Wanted To Be a Pastry Chef. Seriously.
By Inara | February 25th, 2008Faithful reader Marielle sent me an article on Jeremy Toulalan that was published in the Libération this morning. It's one of the few articles that ...
Patrick Muller Out For SIX Months
By Inara | December 3rd, 2007I was in the process of writing a post titled "The Muller Mystery" when I happened to check Lyon's official website. And there it was ...
Fabio Santos: We Misjudged Him
By Inara | October 25th, 2007Time for another player profile! Today, we'll be looking at Fabio Santos, author of three terrific back-to-back substitute appearances and Lyon's newly discovered secret weapon. ...
Karimaldo
By Inara | October 15th, 2007Our next player profile will be on Karim Benzema, Lyon's 19 year old striker. Benzema has always been touted as a Young Prospect. He is ...
The White Makélélé
By Inara | September 27th, 2007Time for another player profile! This time I've selected Jeremy "La Toule" Toulalan because he's currently one of the best OL players and also because ...
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