Articles tagged with "players"
The Alex Show: Another Match for Brazil's Best Midfielder
By Bruno Romani | October 23rd, 2008After the 2-0 victory of Inter over Boca Juniors for Copa Sulamericana, the website of Inter asked in bold letters: "Who Plays Better Than Alex ...
Champions League: Juve finally win, Viola fall in Munich.
By Francesco | October 21st, 2008Juventus gained a morale boosting 2-1 win at the Stadio Olimpico vs. Real Madrid. The goals came from Alex Del Piero and Amauri, and now ...
Balotelli puts Italy through to Euro U21 2009
By Francesco | October 16th, 2008What can you say about Mario Balotelli? He may be arrogant, he may be overly confident, he may get too many yellow cards, but say ...
Some Mid-Week News
By Jim | October 15th, 2008This week is dragging man. It's only midday Wednesday and I just can't wait for the weekend. I will use this time to again reiterate ...
Video: Gol di Tacco
By Francesco | October 13th, 2008The "gol di tacco" (heel flick goal) is something that is rare and when it occurs it is revered by fans and media. It's probably ...
Baseless Rumors and Other News
By Johonna | October 9th, 2008Who do you think Nico is giving the stink-eye to? Most of the squad is off on national duty, leaving only the wounded and Crespo behind. ...
Video of the Week: Italy vs. Bulgaria
By Francesco | October 9th, 2008This Saturday our beloved Nazionale takes on Bulgaria in World Cup 2010 qualifying. Italy has a positive record vs. Bulgaria, playing 14 matches in total, ...
Ze Roberto wishes to leave
By Angela | October 7th, 2008Ze Roberto has been the bright spot in what has otherwise been a dismal season start for Bayern. While he doesn't get the recognition ...
Inter 2-1 Bologna, Crisis Averted
By Johonna | October 6th, 2008This isn't going to be much of a review. I didn't take notes this time and it has been a couple days. I do have ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 6 (Plus Serie B + National Team Call-ups!)
By Francesco | October 6th, 2008At the end of the 6th Giornata we still saw surprises. Inter is top of the table, but they share a place with Lazio and ...
Inter v Bologna - Preview
By Johonna | October 3rd, 2008Where: San Siro, Milan When: Saturday, 8:30pm CET (11:30am pacific; 2:30pm eastern) Referee: Maurizio Ciampi How to Watch: Live-ish on Fox Soccer Channel or streaming. So this may be ...
Mauro Zarate taking Serie A by storm
By Francesco | September 30th, 2008Maradona, Caniggia, Sensini, Balbo, Chamot, Simeone, Redondo, Batistuta, Crespo, Veron. The list of great Argentinian players to grace the pitches of Serie A can go ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 5
By Francesco | September 29th, 2008When looking at the schedule of the 5th Giornata, all eyes had to be on Milan-Inter. The Derby was important not only for fans of ...
Rovers 2-1 Newcastle w/ Highlights
By Jim | September 28th, 2008So anytime you can go to Newcastle and take away all tree points, it's been a a good weekend. It is even better after you ...
Fatty Vasco de Gama Players Face Fines
By Daryl | September 25th, 2008Vasco de Gama are in trouble. The usually pretty successful club (they've won a Brazilian championship in every decade since the '70s, and the Copa ...
Blackburn 1-0 Everton
By Jim | September 24th, 2008Young Rover Martin Olsson scored the one goal last night for Rovers. Check the highlights I acquired below, it's a pretty good link up with ...
Santacroce: Don't pick me for your fantasy team...
By Francesco | September 23rd, 2008For all those who have Serie A fantasy teams, here's a tip for you: Don't pick Fabiano Santacroce. Who says? Santacroce himself! The Italy U-21 ...
Renato Civelli nearly drowned...
By Magnusson | September 20th, 2008Renato Civelli (24) was not at practice on Friday morning. But he had on hell of an excuse. On thursday while he was out fishing ...
Dunn Out....Again
By Jim | September 19th, 2008David Dunn has been ruled out of action for at least four months following the news that he picked up an Achilles injury in training. ...
Panathinaikos and Torino
By Johonna | September 18th, 2008First of all, that Champions League game was fan-freakin-tastic. We finally got that win I wanted: 2-0. But better yet, Ibrahimovic had a brilliant game, ...
Camoranesi Extends My Desire To Wed Him.
By roberto | September 18th, 2008Wanna know why Camoranesi always picks up little knocks every now and then? It's because he plays his ass off on both ends of the ...
Video of the Week: Italian Goalkeepers Scoring Goals
By Francesco | September 18th, 2008Usually when we think of goalkeeper's scoring goals, we think of those keepers that take free kicks and penalties for their club, past and present ...
Fulham Preview
By Jim | September 17th, 2008Our next match sees us tied up with Fulham at home. Home happens to be the last place we beat Fulham in this fixture two ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 2
By Francesco | September 15th, 2008Giornata 2 was another exciting week of Italian calcio. Inter and Juventus got back on track with wins, but Roma, Milan, and Fiorentina fell back ...
Inter 2 - 1 Catania
By Johonna | September 14th, 2008Ok, so it wasnt pretty and technically both those goals for Inter were Catania own-goals, but damn it, we get the 3 points anyway. And ...
NIKE ad featuring Ben Arfa and Valbuena...
By Magnusson | September 14th, 2008I just saw this ad featuring the two Marseille players and Phillippe Mexès. This ad is part of a series on the theme of "Take ...
Rovers 0-4 Le Arse
By Jim | September 14th, 2008Well, this score line certainly blows. After a defeat with a score that was very misleading versus the WHammers, there's no deny that we were ...
Previews: The Battle of the Bianconeri, ADN v. ADP
By alessio | September 13th, 2008Thank god that international break is over. I watched the Palermo-Roma game today, and as pleased as I was to see Roma get pounded, just ...
Great Italian Players Profiles
By Francesco | September 11th, 2008I've decided to add a new segment to the Italy Offside, where I'll put up a bio and profile of a great Italian player of ...
Cassano to Juve this summer?
By Francesco | September 11th, 2008Big rumor from TuttoSport today (which is a Turin-based paper) claiming that Juventus have struck a deal with Sampdoria to bring Antonio Cassano to Torino ...
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