My introduction to Daniele De Rossi was the vicious elbow that he threw at Brian McBride, leaving his face bloody in the USA vs Italy match in the 2006 World Cup. It left a negative impression of him but here is De Rossi doing something rare in football nowadays, acknowledging that he used his hand to score a goal against Serie side Messina.

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With the final international break of the year almost upon us, Marcelo Lippi has named his squad...
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The International Break is a Welcome One for Top Squads

The 1-1 Inter-Roma draw this weekend highlighted the risk for top flight Serie A clubs participating in international tournaments; Inter has played three matches this month already and eight in the past 22 days.

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has granted Chelsea's request to suspend their transfer ban.

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Inter Milan v AS Roma
Serie A
Sunday, 8 November 2009
San Siro
Kick off: 20:45

As Internazionale faces AS Roma at the San Siro this Sunday, Roma manager Claudio Ranieri will be hoping that the evidence he is looking at is wrong.

Exhibit item A tells Ranieri that Roma without Francesco Totti does not offer much this season.

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A word of advice for Rio Ferdinand, you will have plenty of time to attend movie premieres, start a music label and run your very own magazine when you decide to hang up your boots. Until then, as long as a fat cheque comes to your house every week signed by Manchester United Football Club, kindly concentrate all your energy and effort on the pitch.

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...and remembers some of it's predecessors fondly...
The technical side:A new PowerSpine technology is supposed to give the Predator X an unprecedented increase in shooting power of seven percent in comparison to its predecessor. Ball velocity tests in the adidas laboratory demonstrated that the new PowerSpine enables the Predator X to reach a velocity of 110 kilometres per hour which, when compared to other boots, makes a speed difference of almost three metres per second.

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According to Fleet Street, Chelsea will launch an enormous transfer binge in January.
The FIFA transfer ban hasn't had much, if any, impact on the Chelsea gossip train – I guess journalists just aren't prepared to give up the stories that would fill hundreds of otherwise empty column inches every six months.

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According to Fleet Street, Chelsea will launch an enormous transfer binge in January.
The FIFA transfer ban hasn't had much, if any, impact on the Chelsea gossip train – I guess journalists just aren't prepared to give up the stories that would fill hundreds of otherwise empty column inches every six months.

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Reports in this morning's papers – most notably on the back page of the Times – suggest that Chelsea are pushing the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to suspend FIFA's transfer ban while its appeal is being considered, freeing the club up to make purchases in January.
The Times' report suggests that Chelsea are already drawing up a list of targets which includes David Villa, Daniele De Rossi, Middlesbrough's Adam Johnson and, most worryingly, Emile Heskey.

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Reports in this morning's papers – most notably on the back page of the Times – suggest that Chelsea are pushing the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to suspend FIFA's transfer ban while its appeal is being considered, freeing the club up to make purchases in January.
The Times' report suggests that Chelsea are already drawing up a list of targets which includes David Villa, Daniele De Rossi, Middlesbrough's Adam Johnson and, most worryingly, Emile Heskey.

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Jogaram em Parma, no estádio Ennio Tardini, para um público de 15.009 pessoas, as seleções da Itália (4º no ranking da FIFA) e Chipre (65º no ranking da FIFA).
As 2 seleções jogaram antes desse jogo, os seguintes jogos:
22-03-1967 - Chipre 0x2 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
01-11-1967 - Itália 5x0 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
12-02-1983 - Chipre 1x1 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
22-12-1983 - Itália 3x1 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
22-12-1990 - Chipre 0x4 Itália (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
21-12-1991 - Itália 2x0 Chipre (Eliminatórias Eurocopa)
06-09-2008 - Chipre 1x2 Itália (Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim:
Árbitro: Alon Yefet-ISR
Primeiro Assistente: Shmuel SHTEIF-ISR
Segundo Assistente: Danny KRASIKOW-ISR
Quarto Árbitro: Asaf KENAN-ISR
Aos 12 minutos do primeiro tempo, o camisa 12, Konstantinos MAKRIDIS abriu o placar para a seleção do Chipre. Click to continue reading...

Winning the World Cup twice on the trot is one of the hardest feats in sports and that's exactly what Italy are aiming to do next summer in South Africa.� Yesterday, we gave you the first two keys if Italy are going to pull off the historic double. Today, we present the final two.

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Most of the heavy favourites have already qualified for the World Cup due next summer in South Africa.� Previous World Cup winners such as Brazil, Germany, England, Argentina and Italy (also current� WC Winners) all booked� their spot in� South Africa following a long and arduous road. Some teams such as� Argentina� have struggled while others such as England have cruised, yet the World Cup stage is a different� playing field and previous results will not count.

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Dal ritiro azzurro rimbombano, chiare e decise, le parole del forte centrocampista della Roma, Daniele De Rossi, il quale si è soffermato a parlare di due imporanti "affaires", ossia quelli riguardanti Totti e il fuoriclasse barese, Antonio Cassano.
Riguardo al suo capitano, compagno di squadra e di tante battaglie con la maglia giallorossa in Serie A e in Europa, si esprime chiaramente: "Il suo ritorno sarebbe una piacevole sorpresa. Click to continue reading...

One of Sampdoria's protagonists in the early part of 2009-10 has been midfielder Andrea Poli, who has revealed he draws inspiration from Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
"I know I'm young and still need to improve," he explained to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
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(ANSA) - Rome, September 29 - AS Roma on Tuesday unveiled plans to build a new stadium on the outskirts of the Italian capital.
Roma President Rosella Sensi said the idea of the club having its own stadium, instead of renting one from the city council, had ``always been at the centre`` of her late father Franco`s plans, as well as those of another historic club president, Dino Viola. Click to continue reading...

After midweek fixtures in Italy as well as this weekend's results, all of the Serie A clubs have played two more games and we are left with surprise leaders of Serie A.

Midweek results:

Palermo 3-3 Roma

Lazio 1-2 Parma

Udinese 1-0 Milan

Siena 0-0 Chievo

Fiorentina 2-0 Sampdoria

Bari 0-1 Cagliari

Bologna 2-0 Livorno

Atalanta 0-0 Catania

Inter Milan 3-1 Napoli

Genoa 2-2 Juventus

A late equaliser from Totti saved Roma a point at the Renzo Barbera while the dark days at AC Milan appear to be getting ever darker as they slumped to a 1-0 defeat to Udinese.

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La bella vittoria, ottenuta domenica sera, nel posticipo di Serie A, contro la Fiorentina, ha restituito fiducia, ai giocatori nei propri mezzi, e anche serenit� all'ambiente, dopo la débacle europea di Basilea. Un tre a uno senza storie, contro una delle big oramai della Serie A di Calcio, al termine di un match dominato dall'inizio alla fine. Click to continue reading...

Lots of goals scored this week, with only one 0-0 draw (Napoli-Udinese) and many teams scoring 3+ goals. There were some nice ones this week. Goals after the jump.

Emanuel Rivas vs. Atalanta - The Bari midfielder scores a nice opening goal. Dribbles to the center and unleashes a laser strike from around 20 yards out.

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While the Premier League was buzzing about Emmanuel Adebayor's confrontation with Arsenal fans, AS Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi was involved in a confrontation of his own against AC Siena fans in Sunday Seria A match which left the player in tears at the end of 90 minutes. It was reported that Siena fans were singing [. Click to continue reading...

While all fans can be nasty at times, Siena fans in Serie A took it to the extreme over the weekend.
They pushed Roma's Daniele De Rossi to tears with a classless chant that reference his father-in-law, who was shot and killed last year.
Siena's coach has already apologized. Take a look at the video. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to our friends at Dirty Tackle for the heads up on this one. Daniele De Rossi looks like a hard nut, I mean he looks like he could do some you serious damage, if indeed he wasn't a professional footballer but had maybe fallen into a life of crime. Well his Roma side took on Siena in a match that saw some pretty savage chanting from the home fans that related to his father in law's recent murder in what appeared to have been a mafia execution.

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At the end of Roma's 2-1 win over Siena last weekend, Siena fans elicited an intensely emotional reaction from Daniele De Rossi as they sang a song about De Rossi's father-in-law, who was found murdered in an apparent organized crime related execution in August of last year.

The group of Siena fans unleashed their heartless chant on De Rossi merely because of a foul he committed after the whistle.

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Come ogni martedì, ci ritroviamo su Sport City per portarvi a conoscenza delle squalifiche relative alla Serie A di Calcio. Cattivo di turno il genoano Criscito (uno dei migliori in quest'inizio di torneo in Serie A) che, per il "vaffa" elargito durante la gara del Marassi, all'arbitro Tagliavento, rimedia due turni di stop. Click to continue reading...

'La rabona'. Talk to anyone who is into Italian football about Alberto Aquilani and that word is bound to come up. It is how Italians describe an audacious bit of skill where a player backheals a pass while running, a move that done well is likely to put any defence off balance.
Just as Aquilani did at the San Siro on the 11th of November of 2006. Click to continue reading...

With Brazilian� striker Amauri� close to becoming an Italian citizen, it looks like Bayern Munich's Luca Toni will find it quite hard to represent Italy in South Africa. Azzurri Boss Marcello� Lippi has hinted on more than one occasion that Amauri will be very useful for the national team.

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Nostalgia di Luciano Spalletti. Di un mister che rimarr� per sempre nei cuori dei tifosi veri, di un allenatore che ha dato tanto alla Roma. Ora c'è Ranieri, ed è giusto seguire il nuovo corso, ma Daniele De Rossi ripensa continuamente all'ex guida tecnica. Il centrocampista, colonna della Roma nella Serie A di Calcio e della Nazionale di Marcello Lippi, al termine della gara contro la Bulgaria (vinta per due a zero, con gol di Grosso e Iaquinta), non ha nascosto la sua amarezza per il comportamento dell'ambiente giallorosso nei confronti del tecnico: "Sono dispiaciuto. Click to continue reading...

E una è andata. La Georgia, tra le squadre di calcio insidiose del girone, è stata superata (due gol a zero il risultato finale), non senza difficolt� , e soprattutto grazie ad una buona dose di "fattore C", anzi K, visto che è stato il capitano georgiano Kaladze ad essere in serata di vena "realizzativa" (due, o un autogol e mezzo nella serata, un record o quasi). Click to continue reading...

It was a weekend of some nice goals. First, let's just say that Fabio Quagliarella ALMOST scored the goal of the season (he did however score 2 goals on the night). You can watch that video here. Diego scored his first goals in Serie A, Julio Cruz scored his first goals for Lazio, Alberto Paloschi continues to look more and more like the new Pippo Inzaghi, Giampaolo Pazzini continues to score, and Antonio Cassano worked some magic again.

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It is already the Juventus of Diego.

The club maybe able to complete its remarkable turnaround since its return to Serie A in 2007 by challenging Inter for the Scudetto this year. If they win, it will be in no small part to their Brazilian imports, especially Diego.

Diego's two goals and Felipe Melo's injury time score finished off a Roma side which lost two games in a row but not its character.

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UPDATE: According to ESPN Soccernet, Roma rejected a bid from Chelsea for midfielder Daniele De Rossi. Roma director Bruno Conti told Radio Radio,

"I've personally had a call from Ancelotti to take the player to Chelsea.

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Liverpool FC confirmed yesterday evening that Alberto Aquilani has successfully completed a medical and agreed a five-year contract with the club. Aquilani cost Liverpool £20million from AS Roma.

The Italian is unlikely to make his Reds debut before October. The player will now continue his rehabilitation from an ankle operation under the guidance of Liverpool's medical team and is expected to be fully fit in approximately four to eight weeks' time.

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Who is Alberto Aquilani? That is the question many Liverpool supporters have been asking during the past week after it emerged the Roma midfielder was being lined up as a replacement for Xabi Alonso.
Only true Serie A aficionados would claim to possess anything more than just a sketchy knowledge of the 25-year-old Italy international who is poised to complete a £20million move to Anfield. Click to continue reading...

John Arne Riise, a former Liverpool player now plying his trade at Roma, believes team-mate Alberto Aquilani has what it takes to be a success in the Premier League.
The Norwegian international, who has a thunderous left-footed shot, admitted to The Daily Express that upon his own move from Liverpool to Roma, he had little idea who Aquilani was, but it did not take long for him to learn of the Italian's ability. Click to continue reading...