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Serie B Preview 2008/2009
By: Francesco |
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Along with Serie A this weekend, Serie B will kick-off as well. The second division has many exciting teams this year and it should provide for an interesting campaign. In my opinion Serie B is the best second division in Europe. There are so many quality players in Serie B and it is a league [...]
Category: Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: S-U
By: Francesco | 5 Comments
In the final part of the preview, we finish off with Sampdoria, Siena, Torino, and Udinese, along with some predictions for the coming season.
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: M-R
By: Francesco | 7 Comments
Here’s the third installment of the Serie A preview. In this part we take a look at Milan, Napoli, Palermo, Reggina, and Roma.
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: F-L
By: Francesco | 15 Comments
Here we go with the second installment. In this preview we’ll look at Fiorentina, Genoa, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, and Lecce.
Serie A 2008-2009 Season Preview: A-C
By: Francesco | 16 Comments
Our beloved Serie A kicks off this weekend and it’s preview time. After thinking that last season was a tough season to predict, this season it becomes even tougher. There are so many quality sides in the top flight this season that it is really hard to predict who will finish where this season. It [...]
Tags: Atalanta, Bologna, Cagliari, Calcio, Catania, Chievo, football, Futbol, Italy, Preview, Serie A, SoccerSuperCoppaItalia
By: Francesco | 6 Comments
So as you can see from the title, 2 things happened in the calcio world this weekend. We had the SuperCoppa, and we had the third round of the Coppa Italia. Let’s go backwards and begin with the SuperCoppa. Inter won the first trophy of the season, triumphing over Roma on penalties 8-7 after drawing [...]
Video of the Week: Did somebody say SuperCoppa?
By: Francesco | 16 Comments
Finally, after weeks of anticipation, the curtain to the 2008/2009 Serie A season will be raised. The SuperCoppa always brings joy to fans starved of calcio for months, as it means the season will finally begin. Yet again, the match is Inter-Roma, the umpteenth battle between the Giallorossi and the Nerazzurri in recent years. All [...]
The Curse of the August Friendly continues
By: Francesco | 18 Comments
The annual August friendly is not really something Azzurri fans look forward too. In Italy, people are away vacationing at the beach and therefore are not in front of the televisions watching the game. In addition to that, the August friendly every two years takes place after a major tournament, which means we usually get [...]
Weekend Wrap-up: Call-ups, Coppa, and Trofeo Berlusconi
By: Francesco | 16 Comments
As each week passes Serie A gets closer and closer. This was basically the final week of the preseason, as this week there are National Team games on Wednesday and then the SuperCoppa on Sunday, and teams start there normal preparation for the start of Serie A, which will kick-off with Udinese-Palermo and Sampdoria-Inter on [...]
Lumezzane president a little bitter about Balotelli
By: Francesco | 16 Comments
So as we know by now, 18 year old phenom Mario Balotelli finally received his Italian citizenship at a ceremony at the town hall in Concesio, near Brescia. Everyone is happy, or at least most people are happy. One person who is not on the jovial side is Lumezzane president Renzo Cavagna. For those of [...]
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