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April 29th, 2009

Temporary Interruption to daily calcio news but videos to keep you busy!

By: Francesco | Comments No Comments

Sorry for the lack of updates this week guys, but as many of you know its that time when college is ending and lots of work and studying for final exams. I should be back to full force next week. Here are some videos to keep you busy of funny Serie A mishaps:



April 24th, 2009

Finally, a Coppa Italia final that’s interesting!

By: Francesco | Comments 5 Comments

For the last 4 years it was the same thing. Roma-Inter, Inter-Roma, Roma-Inter, Inter-Roma. It was starting to get boring and predictable. Finally, the Lega gave us a break this year. They put Inter and Roma on the same side of the bracket and therefore eliminated the chance of having another year of Giallorossi vs. [...]

April 21st, 2009

Pippo Inzaghi gets better with age

By: Francesco | Comments 16 Comments

What can you say about Pippo Inzaghi? At the age of 35, the goal poaching extraordinaire is still giving 110% on the football pitch and is still scoring goals. His latest feat came this past weekend, where Inzaghi scored a hat-trick to contribute to Milan’s 5-1 drubbing of Torino. That was actually his second hat-trick [...]

April 20th, 2009

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 32

By: Francesco | Comments 5 Comments

Atalanta-Reggina 0-1
Scorers: 40´ Ceravolo (Reg)
Report. Player Ratings. Highlights.
Cagliari-Napoli 2-0
Scorers: 5´ Jeda (Cag); 92´ Lazzari (Cag)
Report. Player Ratings. Highlights.
Catania-Sampdoria 2-0
Scorers: 39´ rig. Mascara (Cat); 48´ Martinez (Cat)
Report. Player Ratings. Highlights.

April 16th, 2009

Does Italy need a Reserve League?

By: Francesco | Comments 14 Comments

Ever since 17 year old Manchester United striker Federico Macheda has scored those two goals in the last two league games, the Italian media has been publishing articles about how Italy doesn’t put faith in young players. On the one hand, it is true, Italy is a traditional society and most managers have the traditional [...]



April 13th, 2009

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 31

By: Francesco | Comments 3 Comments

There were signs and banners like this all over the stadiums of Serie A this weekend showing support to the region of Abruzzo and all of those poor people that have to go through this tragedy that was the earthquake. Many teams donated their revenue from Sunday’s games to Abruzzo and Fiorentina defender Luciano Zauri [...]

April 9th, 2009

Breaking News: Adriano retires

By: Francesco | Comments 25 Comments

So one of the major stories after the international break was that Adriano never returned to Italy. Inter were expecting him to be in Milan the Tuesday after the international break, and he never showed up. Early reports were he had simply missed his flight after a party, but as the days passed and he [...]

April 6th, 2009

Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 30

By: Francesco | Comments 4 Comments

At the winter break, most people had already hypothesized that Chievo would be returning to Serie B next year. But with the arrival of coach Domenico Di Carlo, the Flying Donkeys have played with a reborn spirit in this second half of the season, and have racked up 21 points since the winter break (only [...]

April 2nd, 2009

Bobo Vieri rescinds contract with Atalanta

By: Francesco | Comments 7 Comments

There was a time when Christian Vieri was arguably the best striker in the world. He was a goalscoring machine and would hit the back of the net regularly in Serie A and with the national team. Although after a couple of years at the top, “Il Mostro” (The monster) as he was nicknamed by [...]




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