

Articles tagged with "sampdoria"
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Reflection to Last Summer's Predictions-
By alessio | August 16th, 2009One of my favorite part about making predictions is seeing where I was right, and yelling boo-yah, and then seeing where I was horribly, horribly ...
The Forgotten Woodwork
By chris | August 3rd, 2009[101 Great Goals] The corner flag is the underappreciated woodwork of the modern game. While the goalposts get all the glory - and the occasional kiss ...
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 ...
Juve Fixture List, Serie A 2009-2010/Coppa di Pace Photos
By alessio | July 29th, 2009Schedule looks alright, to me. Roman teams back to back, and in general, the big matches are fairly spread out. Weeks 9-13 are the Scudetto ...
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 ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 6: Eto'o has arrived, another American will arrive
By Francesco | July 28th, 2009Before we dive into Serie A transfer news, I just want to report on a transfer from Serie B that as fairly important, which was ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 5: Arrivederci Ibra?
By Francesco | July 21st, 2009So the big transfer news in recent days is the deal between Inter and Barcelona to swap Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o. The deal is ...
Goal.com's Serie A Team of the Decade. Do you agree?
By Francesco | July 20th, 2009Let me just start out by saying that I have never liked Goal.com (the English version at least. The Italian version is actually pretty good ...
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 ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 4: Things are starting to come together
By Francesco | July 14th, 2009As we get further into July and teams get further into pre-season training, we see more and more transfers becoming official. The big clubs are ...
Calcio Quiz - The Answers
By Francesco | July 13th, 2009Last week I posted the Calcio Quiz. I know I originally said I would post the answers on Wednesday, but nobody has really tried to ...
Touchdown In Auronzo
By cathal | July 12th, 2009The players are now in the small resort of Auronzo di Cadore and have begun their preparation for the season ahead. All the mercato hype ...
Ever wanted to watch a game with your favorite club's president?
By Francesco | July 10th, 2009Have you ever found yourself criticizing your favorite club's president? Or just wanted to get the chance to meet them and talk to them about ...
Serie A and Coppa Italia 2009/2010 dates announced
By Francesco | July 9th, 2009Yesterday the Lega Calcio announced the dates for the 2009/2010 Serie A season. Serie A begins the weekend of August 23rd and will end on ...
Calcio Quiz!
By Francesco | July 8th, 2009With most news being transfer rumors now and calcio being in a lull period, I thought this would be an interesting thing to do. I ...
Roman Return
By cathal | July 7th, 2009Lazio are back at work which means I am now full-time on the blog again. Nothing excites me more than a new season and with ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 3: Juve-Melo, Stars and Stripes for Milan
By Francesco | July 7th, 2009We are now at the third volume of Transfer Tuesdays, and now we dig further into the transfer market. Most teams have started training again, ...
The Best Goals of the 2008/2009 season
By Francesco | July 6th, 2009The new season is quickly approaching (many teams have started pre-season training) and I realized that I never put up a best goals post for ...
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 ...
Transfer Tuesdays - Volume 2
By Francesco | June 30th, 2009Last week I posted the first edition of Transfer Tuesdays, where every week we round up what every Serie A club is doing on the ...
Nike unveils new Serie A match ball
By Francesco | June 30th, 2009This is the new Nike ball that you will see being kicked around next season. It's called the Nike Total 90 Ascente and will also ...





