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November 19th, 2009

Costinha plays for Atalanta. Oh you didn’t know? Neither did anybody.

By: Francesco | Comments 4 Comments

As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of Italian football today. Back in the summer of 2007, Costinha’s contract expired at Atletico Madrid. Atalanta thought they were making a real steal signing him, as be brought a wealth [...]



November 18th, 2009

Gazzetta editor’s 10 questions he demands Lippi answer

By: Francesco | Comments 8 Comments

The Gazzetta dello Sport is arguably the most famous sports newspaper in Italy, selling more copies than rivals Corriere dello Sport and Tuttosport. It is world famous for it’s pink pages and has been printed in pink since 1899. The current head editor of the Gazzetta, Luigi Garlando, has always been a critic of Lippi [...]

November 16th, 2009

Bobo Vieri is going to live in Brazil for a couple of months, and play some football on the side.

By: Francesco | Comments 2 Comments

Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all of world football, had given all he had and was going more and more into a decline, so he it looked like he wanted to finally call it quits at [...]

November 15th, 2009

Pitch Invader wants Cassano

By: Francesco | Comments 2 Comments

I know, the Cassano-National Team debate is getting old and boring. But this was too funny. In the 5th minute of the game yesterday, a fan ran onto the pitch wearing a t-shirt with the Superman logo and with the words “Cassano in Nazionale” (Cassano on the National Team). He jogged around the pitch for [...]

November 13th, 2009

Azzurrini lose to Hungary, qualification in doubt, worst Italy U-21 team of all time?

By: Francesco | Comments 7 Comments

The Italy U-21’s continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back on track, but now qualification is getting more and more difficult. The Hungarians won 2-0, with goals coming from Nemeth and Koman (both players played on the Hungarian side that [...]



November 10th, 2009

Lippi-Cassano: The Real Reason?

By: Francesco | Comments 34 Comments

Since Lippi has taken over the national team for a second time, the big question has always been, “Why aren’t you calling up Antonio Cassano?” Cassano has widely been recognized as the best Italian player at the moment and there is no other talent in Italy that can even reach his level at the moment [...]

November 10th, 2009

Goals of the Week: Giornata 12

By: Francesco | Comments 2 Comments

Fairly good week for goals, as only one game finished 0-0 (Catania-Napoli, but ask Takayuki Morimoto about that). The top scorer table is still wide open, as Di Natale started strong but now has cooled off so he remains at 9, while Hamsik is second with 7 and that’s impressive for a midfielder. Pazzini and [...]

November 9th, 2009

Serie A and B Weekend Round-up: Giornata 12

By: Francesco | Comments 1 Comment

Milan has really jumped up the table these past few weeks. After the horrible start where everyone condemned the Rossoneri to a season of misery, Leonardo’s squad has made a complete turnaround, finally playing well and becoming contenders once again. They now find themselves 5 points behind leaders Inter and only 2 behind Juventus and [...]

November 6th, 2009

The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino

By: Francesco | Comments 13 Comments

One of the players playing extremely well at the moment is Genoa fantasista Raffaele Palladino. Palladino has always been a player that could do things with the ball that others could only dream of doing, but he never had the consistency to show that talent at a high level. Palladino is now an important part [...]

November 3rd, 2009

Goals of the Week: Giornata 11

By: Francesco | Comments No Comments

A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet with 2 goals (the second a nice scissor kick) after almost a year. Diego Milito got back to his scoring ways as well after being absent through injury, and Mirko [...]






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