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Andrea Russotto – What happened to you?
By: Francesco |Most Italian soccer fans should be familiar with the name of Andrea Russotto. As a youngster he was dubbed as “the next Roberto Baggio” and “Antonio Cassano with a level head” but up until now he has not even been close to living up to those names. His story is a bit particular, and for [...]
Last Minute Mercato Madness
By: Francesco |The Weekend Round-up will be up tomorrow since today was the last day of the summer transfer market and teams made last minute deals. Many clubs were scrambling until the very last minute to get contracts deposited into the league offices and some transfers had to be canceled because they weren’t completed in time. So [...]
Casiraghi makes U-21 Qualifying call-ups with 6 new faces
By: Francesco |The new Italy U-21 side (who lost their first friendly August 12 vs. Russia 3-2) will now start qualifying for the 2011 UEFA U-21 European Championship to be held in Denmark. The Azzurrini will play two games, one on September 4th away to Wales in Swansea, and the other on September 8th at home vs. [...]
Champions League Draw gifts us with Milan vs. Kaka and Inter vs. Ibra
By: Francesco |The Champions League draw always provides entertainment. Even though the random drawing and the whole ceremony is fairly boring, it’s always interesting because it always seems to draw clubs together that are related in some way. Sometimes they’ll gift a club with revenge against a club that knocked them out the year before, or other [...]
Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 1
By: Francesco |Serie A is back which means Goals of the Week is back! You can’t always expect the first day of the season to have the greatest goals, as the teams are just starting to get all their summer rust off and haven’t hit their peak yet. But there were still some nice goals for us [...]
Serie A 2009/2010 Weekend Round-up: Giornata 1
By: Francesco |Serie A is back and so is the the weekly Serie A Weekend Round-up which will come your way every Monday wrapping up the weekend calcio action with reports, player ratings, and highlights of every game as well as the standings and Serie B results. The first week was pretty interesting and this season should [...]
Things to look out for in the 2009/2010 Serie A season
By: Francesco |I just got back from vacation so I won’t have time to put up a mega Serie A preview like I would’ve wanted, but by now we have an idea at where the 20 Serie A clubs stand for the coming season. So Serie A finally kicks off tomorrow with Bologna-Fiorentina and Siena-Milan, and the [...]
Vacation Time.
By: Francesco |Well, it’s that time of the summer again. I’m off to the old country tomorrow, so the blog will be inactive for a couple of weeks. However I will be back right before the start of the Serie A season so I’ll be able to maybe get a mega-preview up like last season and we’ll [...]






