L'onorata serie B

Non so se ci siano accordi tra Menarini e Moggi, oppure se la storia è finita prima di cominciare, ma un fatto è certo: i proprietari del Bologna non vogliono restare da soli nel club.

Il loro obbiettivo in buona sostanza è la costruzione dello stadio nuovo, che però non pare una cosa immediata.

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Cari juventini tifiamo Bologna?

Non so se il mio sentimento al momento della conoscenza della notizia di Moggi al Bologna, quanto possa essere rappresentativo delle coscienze juventine.

Un sentimento misto di invidia per il Bologna e di amarezza se posto in relazione alla squadra che accompagna il mio cuore da quasi quarant'anni.

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L'albero della Figgiccì

Sulla faccenda Moggi-Bologna, dice Giancarlo Abete: "Come presidente della Figc non posso che ricordare che tutti coloro che operano nel sistema sportivo si devono riconoscere in quelle che sono le decisioni degli organi di giustizia sportiva, che tracciano in qualche modo il confine tra le persone che possono svolgere ruoli all'interno del mondo del calcio e altri che sono inibiti e non lo possono svolgere.

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Paradiso-inferno andata e ritorno

Si è ripresa l'anima che gli avevano rubato. Luciano Moggi rientra nel calcio italiano e diventa consulente del presidente del Bologna Menarini.

Le verginelle del bordello bolognese sono in piena versione euripidea, si stracciano le vesti e gridano allo scandalo.

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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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This is the new Nike ball that you will see being kicked around next season. It's called the Nike Total 90 Ascente and will also be used in the EPL and in Spain's La Liga. The ball will be used in all Serie A, Serie B, and Coppa Italia matches as well as the SuperCoppa this August and in all Primavera matches.

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It's been nearly a month since the end of the 2008/2009 Serie A season. I would've put this post up earlier, but the Confederations Cup and the U-21 Championship distracted me from Serie A talk. So I thought we'd discuss who was the best foreign player and who was the best Italian player this season.

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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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Livorno ended their one year stay in Serie B on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Brescia in the promotion play-off final second leg (first leg was 2-2). The Amaranto got two goals from their two star players Francesco Tavano and Alessandro Diamanti before Martin Bergvold added a third. The promotion is a great joy for Livorno, who were expected to be a force in Serie B this season and grab an automatic promotion place.

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The 2010-2011 season will be a little different for Serie A. The collective bargaining tv rights will go into effect which should mean more money for the little teams as the tv rights are shared throughout the whole league similar to the EPL model. But this also means they have decided to follow the EPL model in regards to schedule as well.

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In Italy, if you want to watch all things calcio, you watch Sky. Sky shows every Serie A game plus analysis shows and other shows about calcio. They also make some clever commercials, and some are like the "This is Sportscenter" commercials in the USA on ESPN. Commercials after the jump.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic just can't get enough. In combination with his agent Mino Raiola, they seem like good cop and bad cop. Their machine for taking money from Massimo Moratti works pretty simply.

Using Inter's dominance in Serie A and the dream of the Champions League, in the end of every season the Swede starts implying how he might leave Meazza.

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So we all know in American sports there are statistics for everything. On base percentage, field goal percentage, runs batted in, how many times a player blows his nose at half-time, etc. Soccer as a whole is relatively new to statistics, and especially Italian calcio. Up until a few years ago assists weren't even recorded.

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Reports out of Italy has Juventus targeting Julio Cruz who is out of a contract at Inter Milan. Transfer Market Web is also noting that Fiorentina, Parma and Bologna are all targeting Cruz.

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So since this is the last time we'll be seeing Serie A goals until late August, this week I figured I'd show a video of all the goals of week 38. Since it was the last day and most teams were just playing for fun, there were many goals, and many nice ones to boot. There is also a video of all 25 of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goals that won him the capocannoniere title this season.

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E' appena trascorso l'ultimo weekend calcistico, per quanto riguarda la Stagione 2008/09 in Serie A. Il calcio chiude i battenti, i principali verdetti sono stati emessi. Anche per quanto riguarda la giustizia sportiva, si chiude il lavoro di un anno con la comunicazione degli ultimi calciatori squalificati. Click to continue reading...

The last day of the season was a Sunday of goodbyes. Goodbye Maldini (retirement), goodbye Nedved (retirement, but may come back with another team), goodbye Figo (retirement, desk job with Inter probably), goodbye Ancelotti (Chelsea), goodbye Mazzarri (has to look for a team), goodbye Zenga (all signs are pointing towards Lazio, but maybe taking a year off), goodbye Quagliarella (signed for Napoli), goodbye Torino, Lecce, and Reggina (Serie B), goodbye Milito and Thiago Motta (off to Inter), goodbye Serie A every weekend, and then the two almost goodbyes that will be followed all summer by the press are those of Ibrahimovic and Kaka (who if reports are right will be playing each other in La Liga next season).

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Torino became the third and final team to be relegated from Serie A on Sunday when it lost 3-2 at AS Roma in the last round, while AC Milan secured a direct spot in next season's Champions League. Torino needed to win and hope relegation rivals Bologna dropped points to avoid joining Reggina and Lecce in Serie B next season. Click to continue reading...

(highlights di Bologna-Catania 3-1)

TABELLINO:
BOLOGNA: Antonioli; Zenoni, Castellini, Terzi (27'st Lanna); Valiani, Mutarelli, Mingazzini, Amoroso (31'st Marchini ), Cesar (14'st Coelho); Osvaldo; Di Vaio. A disposizione: Colombo, Lavecchia, Mudingayi, Volpi. All.: Papadopulo.
CATANIA: Acerbis; Izco, Silvestre, Terlizzi (1'st Llama), Capuano; Carboni, Tedesco, Sciacca; Mascara; Morimoto, Martinez (12'st Falconieri). Click to continue reading...

90 minuti alla fine del campionato di Serie A. Il campionato volge al termine, ma non tutti i verdetti sono stati ancora assegnati. Se in alto si combatte per la Champions, nei bassifondi della classifica si lotta per non retrocedere. Reggina e Lecce già sono matematicamente retrocesse, manca la terza che farò loro compagnia. Click to continue reading...

Per ora resta ancora il punto interrogativo alla domanda: Ibra sarà ancora nerazzurro la prossima stagione?. I tifosi sperano di poter avere presto il "si" di Zlatan, ma dalle ultime dichiarazioni rilasciate dal fuoriclasse svedese dell'Inter a due reti private, Telenova e Telelombardia permangono dubbi sul futuro dell'attaccante alla corte di Moratti: "Per adesso non c'è niente sul tavolo. Click to continue reading...

Today the list of 35 players was announced that will play in a friendly on June 6th in Pisa vs. Northern Ireland and the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup. 22 players were called up for the Northern Ireland game, while 13 will skip that match and go straight to South Africa. Lippi said in recent weeks that the roster for the Northern Ireland match would be mainly experimental and would give national team experience to the players that merited a call-up based on their play throughout the Serie A season.

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I'm sorry there was no Weekend Round-up this week, I was away for Memorial Day Weekend and then yesterday my internet was down, so I figured by now it's Wednesday and everyone knows the results of this past weekend. So I'll just post the goals of the week for everyone to admire. Goals after the jump.

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Tosel calca la mano sul Torino calcio. E' la società granata, infatti, quella più colpita questa settimana dalla giustizia sportiva, che ha esaminato accuratamente le immagini della rissa scoppiata al fischio finale della gara con il Genoa. Sono ben cinque i giocatori granata sanzionati: quattro giornate a Ogbonna e Pisano, due a Bianchi, Diana e Pratali. Click to continue reading...

(Tutti i gol della 37° giornata)

I risultati:
Atalanta - Palermo 2-2
Siena - Juventus 0-3
Cagliari - Inter 2-1
Chievo - Bologna 0-0
Torino - Genoa 2-3
Milan - Roma 2-3
Lecce - Fiorentina 1-1
Catania - Napoli 3-1
Sampdoria - Udinese 2-2

Ecco la Classifica di Serie A (ad una giornata dalla fine):
Inter 81, Juventus 71, Milan 71, Fiorentina 68, Genoa 65, Roma 60, Palermo 56, Udinese 55, Cagliari 53, Lazio 50, Atalanta 47, Sampdoria 45, Napoli 43, Catania 43, Siena 43, Chievo 38, Bologna 34, Torino 34, Lecce 30, Reggina 30. Click to continue reading...

20/05/2009Lazio - Reggina 1 - 024/05/2009Chievo - Bologna 0 - 0Lecce - Fiorentina 1 - 1Torino - Genoa 2 - 3Cagliari - Inter 2 - 1Siena - Juventus 0 - 3Catania - Napoli 3 - 1Atalanta - Palermo 2 - 2Milan - Roma 2 - 3Sampdoria - Udinese 2 - 2Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Clicca sull'immagine sottostante per iscriverti! Click to continue reading...

It's time for another post of beautiful goals from the peninsula. There were 32 goals scored this weekend, and here we'll have a selection of the best of week 36.

Simone Perrotta vs. Catania - Mirko Vucinic does all the work to win the ball near Catania's area, and Perrotta makes a perfect run (which he is famous for) and heads home Vucinic's perfect cross.

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Come ogni lunedì, ecco le squalifiche della giornata appena conclusa del campionato di Serie A, decise dal giudice sportivo Giampaolo Tosel, sulla base dei referti dei vari arbitri impegnati nel weekend calcistico. E' stata una settimana di relativa tranquillità per la giustizia sportiva. Sono solamente otto i giocatori che dovranno restare fuori il prossimo weekend. Click to continue reading...

We've expected it for most of the year, but this weekend Inter were officially crowned Campioni D'Italia for the 17th time (now they are level with Milan for all-time Scudetto wins, but both clubs are still 10 behind Juventus). For those that don't understand the banner. "Il Biscione" (the snake) is the traditional symbol of Inter, and it says "Il Biscione is the champion again".

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Un guerriero svedese, che impressionava per forza fisica e per la grande grinta che metteva in ogni gara, è ora costretto a lottare contro un brutto male: la leucemia. Klas Ingesson, ex Bari, Bologna e Lecce (negli anni 1996-2001, ha impressionato nel campionato di calcio per la sua grande forza, da vero e proprio vichingo) si trova a dover affrontare la partita più importante. Click to continue reading...

Usually I just include the goals of the week into the Serie A weekend round-up but as Roberto stated in the comments this week there were just too many nice goals to only choose the 4 best goals. So after the jump enjoy the beauties that were on display this weekend.

Simone Perrotta vs.

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Due to Livorno's loss on Friday, Bari were mathematically promoted to Serie A and will return to paradise after 8 long years of Serie B. The last time Bari were in Serie A they had players like Antonio Cassano and Simone Perrotta on the books. This season they were expected to at least contend for a play-off spot but nobody expected them to dominate Serie B.

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(Catania-Fiorentina 0-1. Jovetic)


(0-2. Zauri)

CATANIA (4-4-2) - Kosicky; Silvestri, Silvestre, Stovini, Capuano; Llama (57' Sciacca), Carboni (46' Paolucci), Biagianti (70' Izco), Tedesco; Martinez, Mascara. All.: Zenga. FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1) - Frey; Comotto, Dainelli, Gamberini, Pasqual; Montolivo, Felipe Melo; Kuzmanovic (69' Donadel), Jovetic (84' Zauri), Vargas (74' Gobbi); Gilardino. Click to continue reading...

09/05/2009Sampdoria - Reggina 5 - 0Lazio - Udinese 1 - 310/05/2009Torino - Bologna 1 - 1Catania - Fiorentina 0 - 1Atalanta - Genoa 1 - 1Chievo - Inter 2 - 2Lecce - Napoli 1 - 1Siena - Palermo 1 - 0Cagliari - Roma 2 - 2Milan - Juventus ore 20.30Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Clicca sull'immagine sottostante per iscriverti! Click to continue reading...

As everyone may know by now, this year's Champions League final on May 27 between Manchester United and Barcelona will be held in Rome's Stadio Olimpico. However this big event may have an effect on the Serie A schedule. UEFA rules state that the stadium must be in UEFA's hands at least one week before the event.

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