Articles tagged with "sampdoria"
Litex and Hajduk and MIKA, oh my! ... A preview of today's matches
By Ian Rose | August 16th, 2007Unlike that other European tournament, the UEFA Cup doesn't split its match rounds over two days. All 33 first legs of the Cup's second ...
The Prodigal Son Returns, Or: "Cassano is of the Samp!"
By Martha | August 13th, 2007(Yes, we have Google translate to thank for that headline. As if you had to ask.) According to several different outlets in Italy, an agreement has ...
Monday News Roundup, Or: Hey, I'm Not Dead!
By Martha | August 13th, 2007•After months (and months) of transfer rumors -- Because, really, Udinese? Who wants to stay there? -- Fabio Quagliarella has signed an extension that will ...
Friday Odds and Ends
By Martha | August 10th, 2007Alright, folks, I'm sick as a dog (How do people who get regularly sinus infections keep from killing themselves?), so this is likely to be ...
News Roundup As the Legend of Bobo Marches On
By Martha | August 8th, 2007•Less than ten minutes into his first match with Fiorentina, Christian Vieri scored. As if he'd do anything else. •Despite coach Walter Mazzari's denials yesterday, the ...
Cassano Headed for Samp?
By Martha | August 7th, 2007Apart from that wishful thinking about a partnership with Craig Bellamy at West Ham, things have been fairly quiet on the Antonio Cassano front for ...
Can the Romanians hold on to Intertoto glory?
By Ian Rose | July 28th, 2007Today, the first five of the eleven UEFA Cup spots will be decided in the Intertoto Cup. Two of the highlight matches feature Romanian ...
Saadi Gaddafi is Free to continue his Italian Soccer Adventure
By Bob | June 22nd, 2007When you are the son of a dictator you have a couple of choices. You can wait your turn and eventually become a dictator ...
The Evelopes Are Opened, Or: Shocking! News, Quagliarella to Udine
By Martha | June 22nd, 2007Among the names you know whose rights went To The Envelopes! earlier this week, everyone either went where expected, or left a club where no ...
An Overwhelming Number of Little Odds and Ends
By Martha | June 21st, 2007•It would take weeks to cut and paste all of the co-ownership deals that were extended or resolved yesterday, but most of the big clubs ...
More on This "ZOMG INTER ARE GOING DOWN!" Thing
By Martha | June 21st, 2007First, the basic facts: Inter have been added to the list of clubs being investigated for financial irregularities over the past few years. What does ...
Wow, Actual Non-Fabricated News About Quagliarella
By Martha | June 20th, 2007Just as I was writing up yesterday's confident press reports that Fabio Quagliarella's co-owners had reached an agreement under which the Sampdoria would pay £4 ...
A little bit of movement in the Palermo Camp
By Giuseppe | June 16th, 2007I'm not dead, really. This has been a really quiet week as far as Palermo is concerned. Martha over at the Italy OFFSIDE site has ...
Ah, Finally: A Big, Foreign Quagliarella Bid! (Also: Corini to Roma?)
By Martha | June 14th, 2007The same day we're told Fabio Quagliarella would rather "prove himself" at Sampdoria than flee for greener pastures the moment he and scores a brace ...
What's Up With Lucarelli?
By Martha | June 10th, 2007Despite Livorno's ever-so-firm announcement last week that #99 was going to stay around for another season, Cristiano Lucarelli's name has been popping up in transfer ...
Lithuania v Italy: Totti Who?
By Martha | June 7th, 2007In practically his first words after leaving the touchline yesterday, Roberto Donadoni was bringing up that Totti Thing again, smugly telling the press "there will ...
Flachi's Coke Use Apparently Not That Bad
By Martha | June 4th, 2007After having two separate urine samples test positive for cocaine, Sampdoria's Francesco Flachi spent several months sitting around, waiting for the football league to hand ...
Weekend News Roundup: Playing Catch-Up
By Martha | June 2nd, 2007•So, Luis Figo is definitely not going to Saudi Arabia. (I guess that talk of appealing to FIFA to declare the contract void was just ...
Did Flachi Sacrifice His Career For One Totally Awesome Party?
By Martha | May 4th, 2007As you may or may not recall, Sampdoria's Francesco Flachi was immediately suspended in late February when traces of cocaine were found in the pee ...
The Return of Bobo!
By Martha | April 17th, 2007After what has felt like about 30 years without him, word on the street is that Christian Vieri will make his return to Italian football ...
Score One Little 40-Yard Goal, and Suddenly Everyone Wants You
By Martha | April 3rd, 2007Fabio Quagliarella has been innocently flying along under the radar this year, kicking ass for Sampdoria but seemingly being ignored outside of Italy. Even after ...
Roma Dipping a Toe into the Transfer Pool?
By Martha | March 27th, 2007On this very slow news day, I've already seen at least two articles about Roma's summer transfer targets -- in this context, that's a massive ...
Sampdoria v Palermo: Oops.
By Martha | March 17th, 2007Well, there's a little good news out of this one for Palermo fans, as well as a lot of bad. The good is that, based on ...
Hide the Children, it's a Cocaine Epidemic!
By Martha | March 12th, 2007Man alive, what has gotten into footballers these days? First Sampdoria captain Francisco Flachi was suspended with immediate effect (though I believe we're still waiting ...
Milan v Sampdoria: So Close
By Martha | February 25th, 2007Picture this: You're an 18-year-old American, signed from the New York Red Bulls just six weeks ago to join Sampdoria's youth team. Almost immediately, you're ...
Thursday Feb 22 - Quick Notes (Crybabies, Politics, Cocaine, Lindsay Lohan?)
By Gianfranco | February 22nd, 2007Finally the Zdenek Grygera debacle/negotiations/transfer/rumor/just sign already is officialy set to become a Juventus player this summer. The Czech defender will sign a 5 ...
Flachi Screws Up. Again.
By Martha | February 21st, 2007Though it wasn't talked about much in the English-language press, Sampdoria captain Francesco Flachi missed two months early in the season thanks a FIGC-mandated ban. ...
You Guys, Stop Being So Mean to Gianluca Pagliuca!
By Martha | February 12th, 2007Stop press: We finally found someone who is pissed he had to play in front of fans yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, Gianluca Pagliuca. Yes, he's ...
The Last Post About the Stadium Situation. I Hope.
By Martha | February 9th, 2007While there is still time for a last minute reprieve (read: for San Siro), at the moment in Serie A only the Cagliari, Sampdoria, Roma ...
The Joy of Football
By Bob | February 5th, 2007Some days the football world is so discouraging. Crowd violence in Brazil, a stadium ban in Romania and the continued uncertainty in Italy after ...
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