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Maurizio Zamparini: The Worst Owner In Football?

The Offside 04 September @ 02:51 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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The big topic in football this week has been the ownership change on the blue side of Manchester and what it means for both the Premiership and football economy. But contrary to popular belief, there is other non-English stuff happening (guilty) and some of it is pretty damn discussion worthy. Take for instance, the champagne [.

Euro 2008 - Gazzetta rates the Italy Players

mCalcio 24 June @ 09:29 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Lippi’s list of 50

The Offside: Italy 03 September @ 04:57 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

Netherlands 3-0 Italy: The Aftermath

mCalcio 09 June @ 10:20 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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After a match like this, one would normally do well to take a night's rest to carefully analyze the situation, see what went wrong, and what can be done to correct it. That is undoubtedly what Roberto Donadoni and his players will be doing over the next few days, to make sure that this debacle [...]SHARETHIS.

Highest Transfer Fees 2008

Poetic Football 02 July @ 08:34 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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So this is the table so far at the end of the year I will post the final table so you can compare, not many English Premier League teams in it so far!
No. Player's Name Pos From To Fee
1. Daniel Alves (Bra) RB Sevilla (Spa) Barcelona (Spa) £25.

Italy’s Euro 2008 Roster - 23 Players, Aye to Cassano & Del Piero, Nay to Montolivo

mCalcio 28 May @ 04:50 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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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.

The Set: Best Transfers

Bundesliga Talk 05 August @ 04:07 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Undoubtedly, the minute I post this, Ronaldo will give up on Real Madrid and move to Hamburg, so forgive me for being premature. Let's take a look, as the season begins, at the seven best signing so far this summer in the Bundesliga. Christian Fuchs (SV Mattersburg to Bochum) Austria entered the [.

Captain Boost for Donadoni

Scuola Calcio 09 June @ 01:08 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Italy have received the late boost that Fabio Cannavaro will be able to give a captain's contribution from the dug-out.

The Azzurri skipper, who is already on the road to recovery following last Wednesday's ankle operation, has been given the go-ahead by UEFA to participate in Euro 2008 from the bench.

Cannavaro-Heartbreak: Ankle Injury Sends Azzurri Captain Home

mCalcio 03 June @ 01:24 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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God bloody darnit!! :(((((((( The Azzurri's first day in Austria started in the worst possible way Monday: captain Fabio Cannavaro picked up a knock as he challenged the ball with teammate Giorgio Chiellini, and the late prognosis indicates what everyone had been fearing but dared not to think about: ligament damage to the left ankle, Cannavaro [.

Weekend Wrap-up: Call-ups, Coppa, and Trofeo Berlusconi

The Offside: Italy 18 August @ 11:16 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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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.