Articles tagged with "sampdoria"
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 ...
Look, a Ferrari -- On the Field! (Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the steak!)
By Martha | February 1st, 2007While on this side of the pond, we were finding out about that whole long-term training facility thing, 18-year-old former RBNY developmental player Gabriel Ferrari ...
Domenech: Materrazi 'must have a weakness somewhere'
By Bob | January 29th, 2007If I thought Marco Materazzi had any brain cells left I would be worried about the effect of suffering two headbutts in less than a ...
Sampdoria v Inter: Typical Bloody Matrix
By Martha | January 28th, 2007About eight minutes in, Sampdoria went down to 10 men and, though they put up a good fight, for all intents and purposes the game ...
Inter Crush Sampdoria, Or: Figo's Still Got It
By Martha | January 25th, 2007In the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final meeting with Sampdoria, Inter rolled to a 3-0 away win, with a certain Portuguese winger turning ...
Obligatory Coppa Update
By Martha | January 19th, 2007For those of you who failed to pay attention, the second legs of the Coppa Italia quarterfinals were played this week and the final four ...
It's an American Invasion!
By Martha | January 19th, 2007Hot on the heels of the arrival of NY Red Bulls prodigy Gabriel Enzo Ferrari in the Sampdoria youth team, fellow American starlet Giuseppe Rossi ...
Sampdoria Get Busy, Signing a Pair of (Former) Mortal Enemies
By Martha | January 12th, 2007Last time we mentioned Saadi Gadhafi (that's a phrase you hear about once in a lifetime), he was training with Sampdoria, and planning to turn ...
Oh My God -- the Gadaffi Spawn is Back!
By Martha | November 29th, 2006Depending on how long you've been following Italian football (or what books you read), you may be unaware that (former?) part-Juventus owner and Libyan international ...
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