Ok, it's official: I feel sorry for him now. Even while he's busy over in Brazil, trying to sort
himself out, the memories of how much Adriano sucks lately have lived on loud and
clear in Italy. You know what's coming, right? For the second year in a row, the big Brazilian is
the proud winner of the Bidone d'Oro, awarded annually to the Italian player who is most crap.
•Man City are in the picture for Adriano again. Well, maybe anyway this time
the interest is official, with no less an authority that Thaksin Shinawatra
putting his name forward.
•More on the Davide Marchini saga: His agent/mouthpiece Lorenzo Marronaro is
now suggesting Cagliari president Massimo Cellino is the problem in the
relationship between player and club, since Marchini is not "the first employee to have trouble
with Cellino.
Note: I'm traveling tomorrow. Will be back on task ASAP.
•For all intents and purposes, it's all set for Adriano to stay in São Paulo
on a six-month loan. Thank Christ.
•Speaking of Adriano, Brazilian home-away-from-home Fenerbahce, once rumored to be a possible
destination for the big man, is now being mentioned as a place that other big man might end up.
I'm not actually back yet, but since it's starting to look like an exodus of lumpy Brazilians is
sweeping Milan, I figured I should make some time for a post. Just a few days after Inter and Sao
Paolo agreed a loan deal for Adriano, the international press is all aflutter over
the news that Flamengo have been authorized to talk to Ronaldo about a move to
Rio.
Because they're all good people (despite the beatings and in-fighting) a bunch of Serie A teams
have come together to support ACDM, a foundation that works to facilitate the integration of kids
with Downs Syndrome into Italian society.
Being so famous all they have to do is wear and or/write their name on something to make people
want it, a lot of players have contributed by donating game-worn and autographed gear to be
auctioned off, with the proceeds, obviously, going to ACDM.
•Bayern Munich's resident crotchety old man, Oliver Kahn, recently gave an
interview in which he ripped the team's unnamed new arrivals, saying they need to "learn that two
or three good games aren't enough" and, oh yeah, learn to speak freaking German while they're at
it. I'm sure Luca Toni went over and gave him a big, Italian hug when he read that
in paper this morning.
I just wrote this up for the front page, but it clearly needs to be discuss here, as well:
Silvio Berlusoni claims Carlo Ancelotti told him that, if he
keeps the form he's been showing in training, Pato will "get 30 goals by June." I
mean ... what?
