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Rossi to Villareal, Or: The Dream is Dead
By: Martha |
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That sound you heard a few hours ago was the hearts of several small Serie A teams breaking: Giuseppe Rossi just signed a six-year deal with Villareal, leaving both England and Italy behind for a go in La Liga. Assuming Rossi passes his medical tomorrow, Napoli, Fiorentina and Parma will all be saying goodbye to [...]
Oh Oh, the Schedule is Out!
By: Martha | 21 Comments
In case you missed it, the Serie A draw was conducted today in Rome, which is a glorious sign that the new season really is going to start soon.
Since this is Italy, of course, the draw is not actually totally random. Instead, thanks to a seeding system which, in effect, protects the big clubs, none [...]
Serie A’s Own Penalty Box?
By: Martha | 9 Comments
Sepp Blatter has been talking for a while about the idea of a “sin bin” in football, a place where players who commit certain offenses — specifically diving or faking injury — would serve short (five-or-so minute) penalties. Though at this point very few people tend to put much stock in what Blatter says, newly [...]
Di Michele Suspended: Don’t Bet on Torino
By: Martha | 4 Comments
(See that headline right there? That’s early morning, exhausted humor. I’ll try to control myself from here on out.)
The football league handed down punishments to its small crew of gamblers yesterday, and as the only current Serie A player of the four who received suspensions, David Di Michele is getting the majority of the attention [...]
Napoli Get Some Love
By: Martha | 2 Comments
[FYI: I'm traveling Monday and Wednesday and will update if I can. Normal service will resume Thursday. And Tuesday. Yes, I'm making this unnecessarily complicated.]
Though given his manager’s most recent statements it’s a significant stretch to believe he’ll be going anywhere, Guiseppe Rossi is suddenly interested in joining Napoli. Or at least that’s what [...]
Weekend Update While People Lie About Freddy Adu
By: Martha | 15 Comments
•Despite the fact that virtually all the media outside of Italy are reporting Freddy Adu’s on-again, off-again move to Benfica is so on-again that it’s pretty much done, reports in Italy insist he’s actually going to Parma with the help of Inter, who will buy the player if he puts in a good showing this [...]
Dhorasoo’s Career Nearly Over. Again.
By: Martha | 4 Comments
For a few weeks there, things were going so well. Vikash Dhorasoo could tell people he was a professional footballer again, his picture was (and still is) proudly displayed at the top of the Livorno website, and he was ready to prove Paris Saint-Germain wrong for dismissing him — lack of fitness and production were [...]
Serie A TV: Too Good to be True or the Coolest Thing Ever?
By: Martha | 12 Comments
Giuseppe over at the Palermo blog dug this up yesterday: A website at SerieA.tv claims it’ll stream every Serie A match this season, and requires us to pay less than $100 for the privilege of watching. (Us, in this case, means anyone living in the Americas or Japan, who has a Windows computer.) Um, wow. [...]
WAG of the Week: Debora Salvalaggio
By: Martha | 4 Comments
I know very little about Debora Salvalaggio, apart from the fact that she once dated our favorite aging partyboy, Christian Vieri (in fact, I found her name on a site which detailed “The Harem of Bobo”). Not only that, but according to at least one website, she’s also dated his surprisingly man-whorish BFF Pippo [...]
Category: WAGsOdds n Ends as You Try Not to Imagine Bobo in 9 1/2 Weeks
By: Martha | 4 Comments
•I did NOT make that up, by the way. One of the unofficial Fiorentina sites has lost its damn mind.
•After nearly two months of wandering in the transfer desert, temporarily-Roma winger Christian Wilhelmsson has finally found a new home: He’s reportedly headed to Bolton on (another) loan from Nantes.
•We’ll supposedly know by the middle [...]
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