Sven Goran shows some personality.By the by the shorts have to go.Or maybe its 1977 again and i didnt get the memo.
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An adage in coaching i used to hear often about any manger who's team began to falter after a good season was "He became dumb over night" Referring to a coach or manager who led a side to great results one year but followed it up with disastrous results the following year. Many may be thinking this about Marco Giampaolo who only a few weeks ago received a ringing endorsement from Don Fabio Cappello. Click to continue reading...

My son asked me why managers wait so late to make all three substitutions in games. Great question.
Its quite simple really.A manager will make the appropriate change to strengthen his or her side.Replacing a weakening player for a stronger player. A Good manager will try to exploit a tactical weakness he or she may may see in an opponent. Click to continue reading...

I am constantly torn as to what subject matter or theme belongs on moltocalcio and what doesnt. Between Roma and Gli Azzuri i constantly debate what theme or identity my blog should develop. Like me my blog has a meandering quality that would make a clown on a zig zag bike proud. I can go tactics to sometimes gossip to irresponsible speculation. Click to continue reading...

Antonio Cassano will not make the national side as long Marcello Lippi is in charge of Italy.I hope i am worng, at 27 this is Cassano's last hurrah.For Lippi past is prologue and Cassano's history precedes him and he is now forever defined as the crazy one who pulls underwear over his own head.My words not necessarily the medias. Click to continue reading...

Today was my first sight of Roma under Claudio Ranieri.The first thing that struck me about the new Roma was a desire to defend. Out went the champagne football in came the six pack.Collectively Roma look solid in the 4-4-2.They now defend in numbers and at times today looked strong doing so.The sight was almost startling. Click to continue reading...

Petulance cant be defined as moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head.
Synonyms:irritable, peevish, fretful, pettish, touchy.
I used to think and feel that Jose Mourinho played the role of an arrogant if not petulant child in order to befuddle his opponents to the point of distraction. Click to continue reading...

England qualified for South Africa 2010 today with a resounding 5-1 win over Croatia. A side cursed by always missing a key player in its drive for a world cup spot.Last year Croatia missed Eduardo and today they missed Tottenham's Luca Modric. Glaring omissions for the Croatians.But this England side are much different then the 2007 side that lost so painfully to those same Croatians. Click to continue reading...

Claudio Ranieri's recent arrival to Roma brings home a native son and player. In many ways the universe seemed to have planned this out perfectly for the Tinkerman. Ranieri's unceremonious if not rude firing by Juventus last season with only two games to go seemed so incongruous it that it now appears had to be done for Ranieri to be allowed to return home. Click to continue reading...

Rai due is reporting that Luciano Spalletti will not survive the day as Roma manager and be replaced by ex-Juventus-Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri.
I am not suprised.Roma look uninspired.Roma are woeful defensively and a change though unfair in many ways to Spalletti who has had to deal with no transfer budget and a woeful set of injury circumstances may see his own firing as a blessing with time. Click to continue reading...

For those that love football and the need to vent, well good news.Steven Cohen and Kenny Hassan are back with World Football daily.It is subscription based. But with all the news and events that have happened,Eduardo's dive and Wengers response, Inter's drubbing of old and tired Milan.Roma's inability along with Juve's rebirth. Click to continue reading...

World Soccer reader is reporting that Steven Cohen's recently ended World Soccer daily may soon return with a new name and new method of delivering its excellent daily broadcast.
"World Soccer Daily will be back. It will be back as World Football Daily with Kenny and me as a subscriber driven 2-3 hour daily video/podcast," Cohen's Facebook post confirmed. Click to continue reading...

I have been working three jobs at a stretch of seven days a week for months now. My Itunes membership to World soccer daily had not downloaded a show for a few days and i didn't become suspicious partly because i was tired and partly due to my ignorantly thinking Steven Cohen had probably extended his vacation another week. Click to continue reading...

I enjoyed today's Chelsea Manchester United Community Sheild immensely.Apart from the athleticism and rivalry between two franchises with fantastic pedigree.Many threads have been born from todays match. We now know Michael Ballack on the right side of Chelsea's midfield can wreak havoc on Manchester United's Left back Patrice Evra. Click to continue reading...

Unable to see today's Inter-Lazio game i was forced to stay near my laptop this morning. My crackling speakers would pop and crack with the sounds from Beijing. My only means to the game was courtesy of Radio Rai. Apparently sold out and lustrous in atmosphere and pageantry a weaker Lazio side missing Goran Pandev,Christian Ledesma and Lorenzo De Silvestri overcame Inter 2-1. Click to continue reading...