Last month Serie A Talk kept you up-to-date on the evolution of Nikefootball.com with the article, The Fabio Cannavaro Show  , this time round we've got some video adverts with several of Serie A's top stars.   The Next Addition of Nike's "Take It To the Next Level" Series, Mr. Alberto Aquilani.

Lippi isn't the kind of guy concerned with critique or running after world records, and I'm sure most of us here would agree getting three points out of a match (such as Italy did today against Montenegro) is the most important thing. Yet, it must come as great satisfaction when someone tells you you've officially [.

Alberto Aquilani has been on the sidelines recently because of injury (when is he not injured?) and has been unable to contribute to the Roma revival. But it seems he has kept himself occupied at home by creating his own Facebook account. Facebook, which is immensely popular in North America, has now become immensely popular in Europe, and Italians are starting to catch on to the social networking trend (even professional soccer players).

Italian sports newspapers Gazzetta dello Sport rated the Azzurri players at the end of their European adventure. Along with Gigi Buffon, positive scores were obtained by Chiellini and Grosso. All the strikers flunked the test, while some midfielders could have done better. The overall form however, was never great.

So it seems to be a FIFA rule that each national team manager must submit a mega-list of 50 players that will be available for selection for World Cup qualifying games. I'm unsure about the rules of this list and if/when players can be changed or added (and info about these lists are hard to find, the list was unveiled by a Fiorentina website) but it does show you the players that the national team manager has in consideration.

Yup, you've read that right. Spain vs. Italy is in two days, and everyone prepares differently at "Casa Azzurri". Maybe Talentino has a "Hand of God" prepared for Sunday and wants the picture to look good... . Daniele De Rossi juggling: . Gigi Buffon Goalkeeping drills: . Alessandro Del Piero vs.

Alberto Aquilani symbolizing the trapped feeling many of us Roma fans are experiencing at the moment
Luciano Spalletti is going to have to earn his spurs as a manager.Today Roma fell to Cluj of Romania 2-1 in the Champions league. After failing to hold a 1 nil lead against 10 man Napoli at home a 10 days ago and then stumbling on the road against Palermo in Serie A action this past weekend we have todays disaster encapsulating a horrible run of form.

Ugly & uglier enjoy a hearty laugh together while Luca Toni lets Alberto Aquilani know just how he feels about the youngster (jump).

In accordance to the UEFA-imposed May 28 deadline, Italian coach Roberto Donadoni has made his final roster selection for Euro 2008: the 23 players who will representing the Azzurri this Summer have been picked and as many expected, Fiorentina midfielder Riccardo Montolivo was the player discarded from the manager's Pre-selection list.

Bring out the castanets and wake up the opera singers: on Sunday, Spain and Italy will step onto Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium ready to dance, and it will surely be a very hot-blooded affair. Two teams with common linguistical heritage but radically different styles of play, the Azzurri and La Furia Roja have also arrived at Euro 2008's Quarter-Finals following opposite [.

Vincenzo Morabito is a name we've heard a lot in recent times.

He was the man who Alexander Hleb went to meet for an ice-cream but at no stage discussed a transfer to Inter Milan with. No sir. He's also the man who said that Roma's Alberto Aquilani was 'speaking to Arsenal' back in May.

La sua preoccupazione, ieri, era riparare il finestrino danneggiato domenica sera dall'esuberanza dei tifosi. Alberto Aquilani, centrocampista della Roma, sta vivendo il suo momento un po' così con l'animo abbastanza tranquillo. Ci vuole coraggio, in una piazza passionale come quella romanista, per dire "i tifosi ragionano da tifosi e io li capisco, ma noi calciatori siamo professionisti e dobbiamo usare la testa in modo diverso".

You'd think in today's day in age people couldn't just to pretend to be somebody else in the public eye. The internet has so much info, particularly in the big wide world of sports, that it's got to be impossible to play yourself off as a superagent to the stars without somebody knowing you're a [...

Last night as i pondered the excellent performance by Holland,i waxed philosophical wondering if we are a horrible team and made the Dutch look good? Or was it an anomalous performance.The combining of all factors in one place proving if it can go wrong it can go horribly wrong.

Donadoni said in his press conference last night that he proffered an all AC Milan Midfield for the reasons of continuity.

(From La Repubblica): From "Italia-Milan" to "Italia-Roma + ADP" seems the most likely change Azzurri coach Roberto Donadoni will make, as Italy step onto the Letzigrund stadium of Zurich for the team's (already decisive) match vs. Romania. Indeed, the insertion of Daniele De Rossi and Alessandro Del Piero straight from the start seems almost a [.

Those of you who have been reading the Italy Offside blog longer than 8 months now, know that February 13, 2008, was a sad date for Serie A fans worldwide. On that day, one of the greatest and most entertaining bloggers I've ever had the pleasure to read stepped down from her post, leaving hundreds [.

(From Gazzetta): For the 4th consecutive season Roma will once again face Inter in the Coppa Italia final. The only difference this time around will be that the umpteenth encounter between Spalletti's men and those of Mancini will be decided by a single match (no more double legs in finals) to be played at the Stadio Olimpico [.

Notiziole varie: La Juventus riscatta dal Siena De Ceglie e gli cede Rossi. La societa' bianconera, in una nota, annuncia infatti di aver risolto a proprio favore l'accordo di partecipazione in essere con la societa' A.C. Siena S.p.A. relativo al diritto alle prestazioni sportive del calciatore Paolo De Ceglie.

Italian international midfielder Alberto Aquilani looked on his experience with the Azzurri at Euro 2008.

MENTRE IL MERCATO È ANCORA IN CORSO, LA SOCIETÀ CONTINUA A NON PERDERE DI VISTA IL FUTURO
Sorpresa rinnovi,prima Juan
Il brasiliano avrà un adeguamento. Poi Aquilani, ma la Juve si rifà sotto
Di FRANCESCO ODDI
Agenda fitta in questi giorni per Daniele
Pradè, che oltre a occuparsi
dell'esterno sinistro, quello che doveva
essere Mutu, che forse sarà Suazo e forse
no, deve preoccuparsi anche dei rinnovi
di contratto.

Well its a tough start to the season as Roma have drawn at home to Napoli before 30,000 at the Stadio Olimpico. Alberto Aquilani started the scoring at the 29th minute giving the Romans a valuable home lead that they held into halftime.But ten minutes after the restart Napoli's Slovakian midfielder Marek Hamsik levelled the score at one.

Thank you Mr. De Rossi for your two goals against Hector Cuper's Georgia and what goals they were.  With a canon shot in the 16th minute, coming from over 25 yards out, Daniele De Rossi would provide Italy the match winner.  No chance for the Georgian keeper as De Rossi's kick from straight out was rising and curved into [.

Nessuna lesione muscolare per Alberto Aquilani: è questo il responso degli esami medici effettuati stamattina dalla Professoressa Giannini a Villa Stuart. Il centrocampista soffre di una distrazione al retto femorale, problema risolvibile in pochi giorni, ma che non gli permetterà di esserci nel turno infrasettimanale contro il Genoa.

Week-End Reviews After the Summer wait, Serie A continues. Here are the results and summaries for matchday 3. Full Video Highlights here. . Italy.TheOffside.com week 3 review . Italian Calcio Blog week 3 review . Inter Milan produced a masterclass of attacking play when they moved to the top of serie A with a 3-1 win at Torino on Sunday.

Notiziole varie: La Juventus riscatta dal Siena De Ceglie e gli cede Rossi. La societa' bianconera, in una nota, annuncia infatti di aver risolto a proprio favore l'accordo di partecipazione in essere con la societa' A.C. Siena S.p.A. relativo al diritto alle prestazioni sportive del calciatore Paolo De Ceglie.

Now that Juventus have failed in their bid to bring Alberto Aquilani from Roma, it looks like the Turin club is back chasing after Liverpool's midfielder Xabi Alonso. The Serie A club had their offer of £14.5million turned down earlier...

According to reports in Italy, Juventus are set to drop their interest in Xabi Alonso after growing frustrated at the lack of progress during negotiations with Liverpool.
The Bianconeri are well known to be in the market for a top class centre midfielder, and they have been heavily linked over the past several weeks with Roma's Alberto Aquilani, Napoli's Marek Hamisk, Inter's Dejan Stankovic, as well as Sevilla midfielder Christian Poulsen.

As each week passes Serie A gets closer and closer. This was basically the final week of the preseason, as this week there are National Team games on Wednesday and then the SuperCoppa on Sunday, and teams start there normal preparation for the start of Serie A, which will kick-off with Udinese-Palermo and Sampdoria-Inter on Saturday, August 30th.

DAL RITIRO DELLA NAZIONALE IL PRINCIPINO DICE DI NON PENSARE AL RINNOVO DEL CONTRATTO
Aqui:La firma? Ci sarà tempo
«Ora ci sono cose più importanti». Intanto in Portogallo scrivono: Suazo al Porto
«Oggi non mi sembra proprio il caso di parlare del mio
contratto, ci sono cose ben più importanti.

IL GOLEADOR DI GIORNATA SUONA LA SVEGLIA
«Ma per vincere serve di più»
Aquilani: «Quello che abbiamo fatto oggi non basta
Il mio contratto? Non ci siamo incontrati, ma resto»
TIZIANO RICCARDI
Novantasei minuti giocati, un gol e tanta qualità al servizio
della squadra.

Week-End Reviews Serie A is back!! Another season of Italian awesomess just kicked off this week-end, and here are the results and summaries for matchday 1. Full Video Highlights here. Italian Calcio Blog week 1 review Gazzetta in English week 1 review It was a surprising day 1 in the Italian league.

Le parole di Alberto Aquilani dal ritiro della Nazionale.
«Il rinnovo del mio contratto è un'agonia più per voi che per me. Sono state fatte tante chiacchiere e detta anche qualche bugia. Non è vero che ho rifiutato offerte della Roma. Mio padre ieri è andato a Trigoria, ma questa cosa non c'entra niente con la questione del contratto.

ALBERTO AQUILANI:UN PRESENTE DA TITOLARE DELLA NAZIONALE,UN FUTURO A LUNGO IN GIALLOROSSO
«RINNOVO? NO PROBLEM»
«È un agonia più per voi che per me. Dette tante bugie
Non ho mai rifiutato offerte della Roma e voglio restare»
Di GIANLUCA PIACENTINI
Non c'è niente da fare.

Third time's the charm for AS Roma. After the (bad) draw vs. Napoli on matchday 1, the (worse) loss vs. Palermo on matchday 2 (and the disaster vs. CFR Cluj in the UEFA Champions League), the Giallorossi can smile again. Three unanswered goals will do that to ya... On the grass of the Stadio Olimpico of [.