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•Kaka is FIFA's World Player of the Year. Try to control your shock.
•Is Luciano Moggi's phone ever not being tapped these days? Another
investigation has opened into his behavior because he continued to "influence" football after his
banning. Well.
•This time it's Olivier Dacourt. I don't want to talk about it.
•Francesco Totti is (probably) going to be back full force for the make-up
match with Cargliari on Wedneday. No more of that bench-sitting shit, he and his bionic boot are
(hopefully) ready to go.
•Roma's biggest Ultra groups have announced that they will not attend the team's home match
with Caglari tomorrow. They won't come together elsewhere this time (as they did during the Udine
match), but instead will just stay home.
•Antonio Cassano is jumping up and down outside Roberto
Donadoni's back window, begging to be allowed to wear the blue shirt again.
Note: I just arrived in Europe today (spending the Xmas holidays in Salerno, Italy), after a pretty
long voyage. So I apologize for the lack of updates yesterday and today. I'll try to connect when
possible during the next week, but expect a significant decrease in update frequency This article
is my submission for the Soccerlens ‘Share [.
Roberto Donadoni's current contract expires at the end of June, 2008, right
after the Euros. Feeling all puffed up and pleased with himself after successfully guiding the
Azzurri through qualifying, though, he's preparing to enter in to negotiations for a contract
extension, before he even gets to Austria.
Bloody hell... France again? Are you serious? One thing's for sure, it is going to be an exciting
tournament next summer. I'll update this post later with the reactions from Roberto Donadoni & Co.
. Group A . . Group B . Switzerland Austria Czech Republic Croatia Portugal Germany Turkey Poland .
•Claudio Ranieri is quoted in the press as saying Juve were "forced" into
buying Tiago when the high price tage Liverpool slapped on Mohamed
Sissoko (who Juve were chasing fully a year ago) made them look elsewhere for midfield
help. Boy, I'm sure that makes Tiago feel really great about being there.
•As Steven reported bright and early this morning, Palermo may or many not be in the process
of arranging the summertime transfer of 22-year-old Brazilian Tulio De Melo from
Atletico Mineiro. The French press are claiming the striker, who has been on loan at Le Mans, wants
a move to Italy, but Palermo sporting director Rino Foschi is denying the whole
thing.
I really didn't mean to be up the early, but I am, so here goes.
640am: A bald man is reviewing which team is in which pot. Why did no one boo when they said
both hosts were seeded top and already drawn? He's making it sounds as if it's the simplest thing
in the world this dude, whoever he is, is damn good.
La Gazzetta reported this morning that Inter kingpin Massimo Moratti
spent some time in London last month and, while there, found time for a private meeting with one
Jose Mourinho. (And this is where I sternly tell myself not to get excited.)
Though the paper bends over backward to come up with reasons for the meeting that have nothing to
do with a desire to hire him (my personal favorite is "the natural predisposition of the largest
shareholder nerazzurro to interweave human cordial relations with the people who count in
football"), that possibility is obviously a whole lot more likely than going all that way for a
speed date.
