06/11/2009Empoli - Reggina 2 - 007/11/2009Ascoli - Cittadella ore 15.30Brescia - Triestina ore 15.30Cesena - Albinoleffe ore 15.30Crotone - Ancona ore 15.30Gallipoli - Frosinone ore 15.30Padova - Salernitana ore 15.30Piacenza - Mantova ore 15.30Sassuolo - Modena ore 15.30Vicenza - Grosseto ore 15.3009/11/2009Torino - Lecce ore 20. Click to continue reading...

23/10/2009Torino - Reggina 2 - 0 Highlights e Gol24/10/2009Empoli - Ascoli ore 15.30Cesena - Grosseto ore 15.30Gallipoli - Lecce ore 15.30Padova - Triestina ore 15.30Piacenza - Modena ore 15.30Ancona - Frosinone ore 15.30Salernitana - Crotone ore 15.30Brescia - Albinoleffe ore 15.30Sassuolo - Cittadella ore 15. Click to continue reading...

Cammino senza vittorie

il rigore di Ruopolo Un pareggio bruttino tra due squadre bruttine. Albinoleffe e Crotone hanno mostrato entrambe un pessimo volto. Portieri quasi inoperosi, anche se i padroni di casa hanno impensierito maggiormente la retrovia calabrese. Albinoleffe che passa in vantaggio su calcio rigore inesistente, trasformato da Ruopolo. Click to continue reading...

22/09/2009Ascoli - Cesena ore 20.45Brescia - Sassuolo ore 20.45Cittadella - Vicenza ore 20.45Crotone - Grosseto ore 20.45Frosinone - Reggina ore 20.45Gallipoli - Ancona ore 20.45Mantova - Albinoleffe ore 20.45Torino - Padova ore 20.45Triestina - Lecce ore 20.45Modena - Empoli ore 20.45Piacenza - Salernitana ore 20. Click to continue reading...

11/09/2009Modena - Lecce ore 20.4512/09/2009Cittadella - Grosseto ore 15.30Crotone - Cesena ore 15.30Frosinone - Padova ore 15.30Gallipoli - Sassuolo ore 15.30Mantova - Reggina ore 15.30Piacenza - Brescia ore 15.30Torino - Albinoleffe ore 15.30Triestina - Salernitana ore 15.30Vicenza - Ascoli ore 15. Click to continue reading...

29/08/2009Modena - Ascoli ore 19.00Piacenza - Lecce ore 19.00Reggina - Padova ore 19.00Triestina - Grosseto ore 19.00Vicenza - Sassuolo ore 19.00Cittadella - Albinoleffe ore 19.00Crotone - Brescia ore 19.00Frosinone - Mantova ore 19.00Ancona - Salernitana ore 19.00Gallipoli - Cesena ore 19.0030/08/2009Torino - Empoli ore 20. Click to continue reading...

It's sad when you type in 'AC Milan' into photo slug boxes and Kaka's Real Madrid Welcome Party is the first result to come up. Can't Uncle Fester Galliani and gang organize a golf tournament or charity match to keep the fans occupied? Have Milan even been doing anything at all?

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Last week I posted the first edition of Transfer Tuesdays, where every week we round up what every Serie A club is doing on the transfer market. Today is the last day of June, which means tomorrow the transfer window is officially open and you'll see all the transfers made in the past few weeks become "official".

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I thought now that the season is over and we've moved into the craziness of the off season where transfer rumors are posted by the minute on every calcio website possible, I would start a new weekly post called "Transfer Tuesdays" where we can sift through all these rumors and see what all 20 Serie A teams are up to during this summer's calciomercato.

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Beppe was born on February 17, 1968 in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo. As did most Italian boys, he loved to play and watch soccer. His own career started as a youth team player in a club connected to Inter, however he was found too small & light by the Inter youth team trainers. So at the age of 17 he moved to a non-league team called AlbinoLeffe (now in Serie B).

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AC Milan
In: Mathieu Flamini (free, Arsenal), Gianluca Zambrotta (€8.5 million, Barcelona), Marco Borriello (€10 + Davide Di Gennaro, Genoa), Christian Abbiati (loan return, Atletico Madrid), Ronaldinho (€25m, Barcelona), Andriy Shevchenko (loan, Chelsea), Philippe Senderos (loan, Arsenal)
Out: Alberto Gilardino (€13 million, Fiorentina), Yoann Gourcuff (loan, Bordeaux), Ricardo Oliveira (€10 mil, Real Zaragoza), Luca Antonelli (co-ownership, Parma), Davide Di Gennaro (part of Marco Borriello deal, Genoa), Cafu (released), Serginho (retired), Ibrahim Ba (retired), Valerio Flori (retired), Ignazio Abate (co-ownership, Torino), Dario Simic (undisclosed, Monaco), Alberto Paloschi (loan, Parma), Cristian Brocchi (undisclosed, Lazio), Massimo Oddo (loan, Bayern Munich)
Atalanta
In: Jaime Valdes (undisclosed, Lecce), Christian Vieri (free, Fiorentina), Luca Cigarini (co-ownership, Parma), Alessio Cerci (loan, Roma)
Out: Antonio Langella (undisclosed, Udinese), Fernando Tissone (undisclosed, Udinese), Andrea Lazzari (co-ownership, Cagliari), Zlatan Muslimovic (undisclosed, PAOK), George Forsyth (loan, Alianza Lima)
Bologna
In: Sergio Volpi (free, Sampdoria), Marco Bernacci (undisclosed, Ascoli), Christian Zenoni (undisclosed, Sampdoria), Diego Manuel Rodriguez (loan, Penarol), Coelho (loan, Corinthians), Gabi Mudingayi (€6m, Lazio), Davide Marchini (loan, Triestina)
Out: Riccardo Bonetto (loan, Livorno)
Cagliari
In: Federico Marchetti (undisclosed, Albinoleffe), Andrea Lazzari (co-ownership, Atalanta), Carlos Matheu (undisclosed, Independiente)
Out: Cristian Del Grosso (undisclosed, Siena)
Catania
In: Tomas Kosicky (undisclosed, Inter Bratislava), Julian Di Cosmo (undisclosed, Igea Virtus), Ezequiel Alejo Carboni (undisclosed, Red Bull Salzburg), Pablo Ledesma (undisclosed, Boca Juniors), Nicolae Dica (€2m, Steaua), Giuseppe Colucci (undisclosed, Verona)
Out: Juan Manuel Vargas (undisclosed, Fiorentina), Adriano Mezavilla (loan, Perugia), Mauro Minelli (loan, Triestina), Gianluca Pegolo (loan, Parma)
Chievo
In: Stefano Sorrentino (free, AEK Athens), Mauro Esposito (loan, Roma), Kerlon (undisclosed, Cruzeiro)
Out: Matteo Alberti (undisclosed, QPR), Giovanni Marchese (loan, Salernitana), Victor Obinna (undisclosed, Inter), Pablo Granoche (loan, Triestina), Mirco Gasparetto (loan, Pisa)
Fiorentina
In: Alberto Gilardino (€13 million, AC Milan), Stevan Jovetic (€8 million, Partizan Belgrade), Felipe Melo (€13m, Almeria), Gianluca Comotto (undisclosed, Torino), Juan Manuel Vargas (undisclosed, Catania), Jefferson (free, Parana), Luciano Zauri (loan, Lazio), Sergio Almiron (loan, Juventus)
Out: Tomas Ujfalusi (free, Atletico Madrid), Fabio Liverani (undisclosed, Palermo), Christian Vieri (released), Daniele Cacia (undisclosed, Piacenza)
Genoa
In: Abdelkader Ghezzal (undisclosed, Crotone), Davide Di Gennaro (part of Marco Borriello deal, AC Milan), Francesco Modesto (Reggina), Andrea Gasbarroni (undisclosed, Parma), Salvatore Bocchetti (co-ownership, Frosinone), Giuseppe Biava (undisclosed, Palermo), Steve Pinau (undisclosed, Monaco), Sokratis Papastathopoloulos (€4m, AEK Athens), Diego Milito (undisclosed, Real Zaragoza), Davide Brivio (loan, Vicenza)
Out: Marco Borriello (€10 million + Davide Di Gennaro, AC Milan), Abdoulay Konko (undisclosed, Sevilla), Leon (undisclosed, Parma), Alessandro Lucarelli (undisclosed, Parma), Fabiano (loan, Reggina), Silvano Garibaldi (loan, Pisa), Danilo (undisclosed, Celta Vigo), Steve Pinau (loan, Hibs)
Inter
In: Stefano Giacomelli (loan, Foligno), Luis Antonio Jimenez (permanent deal, Ternana), Mancini (€13m, Roma), Sulley Muntari (€16m, Portsmouth), Victor Obinna (undisclosed, Chievo), Ricardo Quaresma (€18. Click to continue reading...

So as you can see from the title, 2 things happened in the calcio world this weekend. We had the SuperCoppa, and we had the third round of the Coppa Italia. Let's go backwards and begin with the SuperCoppa. Inter won the first trophy of the season, triumphing over Roma on penalties 8-7 after drawing 2-2 in regulation.

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Coppa Italia - 2° turno
Barletta-Sassuolo 1-3
Piacenza-Padova 0-1
Brescia-Foligno 2-1
Empoli-Ancona 2-0
Grosseto-Cavese 4-2
Mantova-Gallipoli 1-0
Pisa-Cittadella 1-2
Pro Sesto-Modena 0-1
Treviso-Benevento 2-2 (6-7 ai rigori)
Ascoli-Perugia 3-1
Frosinone-Crotone 0-2
Livorno-Novara 3-0
Rimini-Ravenna 3-3 (2-4 ai rigori)
Triestina-Sorrento 2-1
Vicenza-Monza 3-0
Salernitana-Cesena 3-1
Giocate sabato:
Albinoleffe-Pescara (6-5 ai rigori)
Parma-Portogruaro 3-2 (dopo i supplementari)
Bari-Bassano 2-0
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We know several facts already, Chievo will be one of the two team automatically promoted, the second team should be known within the next 90 minutes and there will be a third place playoff qualification. By end of day the second team promoted will either be Lecce or Bologna FC as the miracle squad of Albinoleffe who've held second place for most of the year have dropped to fourth in the last Click to continue reading...

Serie B (which I still consider to be Europe's top second division) has made some changes for next season regarding squad size. Even though they play 42 games in Serie B, lots of squads have very big rosters and most coaches don't tinker with the line-up often, which culminates in lots of players sitting on the bench all year.

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