Articles tagged with "soccer"
Happy 4th Of July
By Dave Martinez | July 4th, 2008Happy 4th of July, from your humble writer in Queens! Break out the BBQ! Make sure the steak is still mooing! Grab the 32 pack of Bud! Watch TV, ...
I'm back, full speed ahead starting Monday
By Francesco | July 2nd, 2008Ciao a tutti! I've returned from my month long trip to Italy. It was a great trip however the only problem was that Italy didn't win ...
Draw on NY
By Alex | July 1st, 2008Chivas USA managed to draw at home against the New York Red Bulls. Nick Green comments on the game here. He's a little rough on ...
Arrivederci
By Francesco | May 30th, 2008Well, it's summer. And summer usually means vacation. So although I love writing about calcio here daily on the Offside, I'm leaving for Rome tonight ...
Borriello is all Milan, Gila is all Viola, Cassano is all Samp, and more news
By Francesco | May 29th, 2008Some interesting transfer news and notes today. Marco Borriello will wear the Rossonero jersey once again, as Milan sealed the deal with Genoa yesterday. The ...
Parma start Serie B with Cagni
By Francesco | May 29th, 2008This is some good news that shows Tommaso Ghirardi is serious about getting the Gialloblu back up to Serie A. Luigi "Gigi" Cagni has been ...
Serie A 2008/2009 schedule released
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008Today the Serie A 2008-2009 schedule was released. The season will begin on August 31st and end on May 31st. There will be three midweek ...
Serie B makes roster changes and other news from the second division
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008Serie B (which I still consider to be Europe's top second division) has made some changes for next season regarding squad size. Even though they ...
Montolivo gets cut, final roster of 23 submitted
By Francesco | May 28th, 2008As many people expected, the odd man out for the Azzurri is Riccardo Montolivo. The 23 year old midfielder had a chance of staying since ...
Italy marches on in Toulon and Inter-Roma once again tomorrow
By Francesco | May 23rd, 2008Yes, tomorrow, Inter and Roma do battle yet again, this time in the Coppa Italia final at the Stadio Olimpico. This is the 4th ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/22/08
By Francesco | May 22nd, 2008Let's start the news round-up with some news from yesterday. -The Italian Olympic Team (the U21's with a few overage players) is currently participating in ...
Donadoni unveils Euro 2008 roster with 1 surprise.
By Francesco | May 20th, 2008For weeks we have wondered. Del Piero Yes? Del Piero No? Cassano Yes? Cassano No? Who will be the third keeper? Will Borriello Go? Will ...
Serie B...
By Francesco | May 19th, 2008It was a sad day yesterday. After 18 years of Serie A, a club that came out of nowhere and became a European power during ...
Italy Offside Serie A End of Season Awards
By Francesco | May 19th, 2008So now that the season has come to a close, let's get everyones opinion on who was the best at everything. We'll use the Oscar ...
Serie A Final Day: Ibra wins it for Inter, Fiorentina grabs 4th spot, Empoli and Parma wave goodbye to Serie A
By Francesco | May 18th, 2008And that's a wrap folks. Serie A 2007-2008 is officially over. (Cue some graduation song, or some goodbye song). If you don't have time to ...
Sampdoria-Juventus, Cassano and Del Piero plead their case to Donadoni
By Francesco | May 17th, 2008Because of the Pope's visit to Genoa, Sampdoria-Juventus had to be played today at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Samp were closing out a good year, ...
Video of the Week: Last Day Scudetto Antics
By Francesco | May 16th, 2008I decided, since this weekend Inter and Roma play crucial games on the last day of the season to decide the Scudetto, to post two ...
Giovinco states for the 10,679,564th time that he wants to go to Juve
By Francesco | May 15th, 2008The "Atomic Ant" Sebastian Giovinco has basically said in every interview this season that he wants to go back and play for Juve this summer. ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/14/08
By Francesco | May 14th, 2008Here's what I found interesting today: -Livorno director Elio Signorelli assumed some responsibility for Livorno's relegation to Serie B. Why? Because he was the one that ...
Exclusive: Hunter Freeman Interview Pt. III
By Dave Martinez | May 12th, 2008So here we are, the final part of this trilogy. What have I learned so far? Well, Hunter is a straight shooter who ...
The 25 Most Valuable Soccer Teams in the World
By Daryl | May 12th, 2008The money obsessed people at Forbes recently revealed the world's top earning players and what they spend all that lovely money on. And very jealous ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 10th, 2008Here we are at the penultimate day of the 2007/2008 Serie A season. It has been a long, interesting season with lots of battles in ...
Video of the Week: Great Serie A Goals
By Francesco | May 9th, 2008I thought I'd start posting a video of the week. This week we travel back in time to the 1990s, when the Serie A was ...
All The Bull - Brunner, Stammler, Reyna, Galaxy and more
By Dave Martinez | May 9th, 2008Hey everyone. Its been a busy news day: + Eric Brunner, our 2nd round pick and first pick in the 2008 draft, has decided to ...
Episode 22: Superclásico, Ligue 1 and Premiership Roundup
By Ian Rose | May 8th, 2008It's that time of the week again, and after a week of technical glitches that made me very nearly give up on the computer altogether, ...
Nazionale News
By Francesco | May 7th, 2008Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven't they ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/6/08
By Francesco | May 6th, 2008Here is todays main news from around the Peninsula: - First let's start off with news that can severely hurt two teams. The Disciplinary Committee handed ...
The Hellas Verona Tragedy
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008Hey Italy Offside Readers, this nice post comes from Steven of the Palermo Offside. He writes about the decline of storied club Hellas Verona. The ...
Farewell Bobo Vieri?
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008There is no denying that Christian (Bobo) Vieri in the late 1990's and early 2000's was one of, if not the deadliest striker in the ...
Sampdoria fan hit with ball, wants to be reimbursed
By Francesco | April 30th, 2008Funny (and peculiar) story out of Genoa today. A Sampdoria fan has asked for 280 euro from Sampdoria midfielder and captain Angelo Palombo (pictured) for ...
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