20/11/2009Vicenza - Frosinone 2 - 021/11/2009Albinoleffe - Modena ore 15.30Ascoli - Ancona ore 15.30Brescia - Lecce ore 15.30Crotone - Reggina ore 15.30Gallipoli - Mantova ore 15.30Grosseto - Salernitana ore 15.30Padova - Empoli ore 15.30Sassuolo - Piacenza ore 15.30Triestina - Cittadella ore 15.3023/11/2009Cesena - Torino ore 20. Click to continue reading...

30/10/2009Cittadella - Padova 1 - 131/10/2009Albinoleffe - Gallipoli ore 15.30Ancona - Cesena ore 15.30Crotone - Piacenza ore 15.30Frosinone - Sassuolo ore 15.30Grosseto - Ascoli ore 15.30Lecce - Empoli ore 15.30Modena - Vicenza ore 15.30Reggina - Salernitana ore 15.30Triestina - Torino ore 15.3001/11/2009Mantova - Brescia ore 20. Click to continue reading...

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Alberto Paloschi, attaccante del Parma ma cresciuto nel vivaio rossonero; Nicola Pozzi, anche lui bomber scuola Milan, arrivato quest'anno in Liguria, sponda blucerchiata, dopo quattro stagioni trascorse in Toscana, all'Empoli, e infine Davide Santon, nato calcisticamente come esterno a Ravenna e poi reinventato terzino da Mourinho che lo ha portato subito in prima squadra, facendolo esordire in Coppa Italia contro la Roma. Click to continue reading...

16/10/2009Lecce - Salernitana 1 - 017/10/2009Triestina - Gallipoli ore 15.30Ascoli - Torino ore 15.30Cesena - Brescia ore 15.30Cittadella - Piacenza ore 15.30Crotone - Vicenza ore 15.30Grossetto - Padova ore 15.30Mantova - Empoli ore 15.30Modena - Frosinone ore 15.30Reggina - Ancona ore 15.3019/10/2009Albinoleffe - Sassuolo ore 20. 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...

Arriva dall'Italia e da una delle squadre di calcio più forti del panorama italiano, ovvero l'Inter, il primo rinforzo del Barcellona, Campione d'Europa. E' il brasiliano Maxwell, ad un passo dall'indossare la maglia dei catalani, il giocatore individuato da Pep Guardiola per rafforzare la qualità di una rosa già di per sè eccezionale: l'affare è ormai concluso, come rende noto anche il sito ufficiale del club catalano. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson is back to his old tricks as he raids yet another mid-level Italian club of their best prospect right before the Italian outfit can sign said prospect (see Federico Macheda and Giuseppe Rossi). Sir Alex attracts and signs the players at age 16 just before the players can sign professional contracts with their Italian clubs. Click to continue reading...

One of the Stars of the recent U21 European Championships in Sweden was Italy's Sebastian Giovinco who was the shining light in the Azzuri's failed bid to win the competition. Despite his impressive displays the 22-year-old is widely regarded as the best young prospect in Italy although he is struggling to earn a place in the Juventus side. Click to continue reading...

American midfielder Danny Szetela and his Brescia teammates have a chance to earn promotion to Serie A if they can get past Livorno in a home and away playoff.
The first leg will be played tomorrow on June 14 in Brescia with the return leg on June 20 in Livorno. In the Italian playoff scheme, away goals do not apply so if tied on aggregate goals, the higher seeded team (Livorno) is be promoted. Click to continue reading...

Danny Szetela's Brescia made late work of Empoli in the Serie B playoffs. Carrying a 1-0 lead through Davide Zoboli's 53rd minute goal, Brescia scored twice in stoppage time for the 3-0 win. Adam Vass and Andrea Rispoli picked up the late goals. Click to continue reading...

Going into the Promotion semi-final second leg, all 4 teams had a chance to advance. Empoli and Brescia played to a 1-1 draw in the first leg and had all to play for in the second. Grosseto upset Livorno 2-0 away, and they liked their chances of finishing the job at home but you couldn't count out a Livorno team with so many experienced players.

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The long Serie B season finally came to an end today. While some things had already been decided (Bari and Parma automatically promoted; Brescia, Livorno, and Empoli in the play-offs; Avellino and Treviso relegated) some things still had to be decided, like who would join Treviso and Avellino in Lega Pro, who would fight for their Serie B lives in the play-out, and who between Grosseto and Sassuolo would fight for a place in Serie A through the play-off.

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It's fair to say we've been banging on quite a bit recently about title chases, promotion and relegation but if you can't do it now, when can you do it?
One thing we find quite interesting is to see how well teams relegated from the top-flight last year are doing one year on - that is to say 'will they gain promotion back to where they were at the first attempt? Click to continue reading...

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Sembrava fatta per l'span style="font-weight: bold;"Empoli/span. Appunto...sembrava. Infatti, a due minuti dalla fine, nell'altro anticipo di campionato, in serie B, l'Empoli recupera il passivo grazie a span style="font-weight: bold;"Buscè /spane chiude uno a uno nella sfida contro il span style="font-weight: bold;"Frosinone/span. Click to continue reading...

Ecco le span style="font-weight: bold;"designazioni arbitrali /spanper gli incontri validi per l'undicesima gara di ritorno (ribattezzata "spezzatino") del span style="font-weight: bold;"campionato /spandi span style="font-weight: bold;"calcio /spandi span style="font-weight: bold;"Serie A/span. Tutte le gare si svolgeranno domenica pomeriggio, a partire dalle 13, con l'incontro tra span style="font-weight: bold;"Atalanta e Fiorentina/span. Click to continue reading...

Because of the Italian National Rugby Team playing a game at the Stadio Olimpico in Torino on Sunday, Juventus-Genoa had to be played today. Juventus have been playing well as of late and have been led by the inspirational play of Alessandro Del Piero. Genoa have proved a tricky opponent this season and have seemed almost unbeatable at home.

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(first, sorry for the lack of posts the last two days, we'll be back on scheduled programming starting now)

Daniele De Rossi scored his first ever "doppietta" (brace) in an Azzurri shirt to give Italy the 3 points vs. Georgia. Italy now have 6 points for the first two games and have made an excellent start to World Cup Qualfying, despite their mediocre play.

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Maggio...Bafflingly preferred Campania to Birmingham
Christian Maggio - Napoli - Right Wing/Right Back
Maggio is listed in some places as a defender but if you look at last year's player positioning charts you can see that Sampdoria used him primarily as a right winger. The 26 year old had a superb year and it was a shock not to see him at Euro 2008. Click to continue reading...

Arsene Wenger's efforts to secure the best youngsters in European football could see him make a £6million bid Juventus attacking midfielder Sebastian Giovinco. The 21-year-old, currently representing Italy at the Olympics, spent last season on loan at Empoli and enjoyed a successful season in which he scored six goals in 35 appearances. Click to continue reading...

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Goal.com - Bologna And QPR After Bogdani
Albanian striker Erjon Bogdani of Chievo is getting requests from teams both in Italy and abroad.
Daniele Arrigoni's newly promoted Bologna are still looking for a powerful striker for next season, when they will make their return to Serie A after three seasons of absence. Click to continue reading...

It's already time for Juventus to get together. Ranieri: "I am very satisfied with the transfers. We must be ambitious right from the Champions League qualifiers." Blanc: "Xabi Alonso? The midfielder is a 30 million investment. We need to assess him."
VINOVO (Turin), 4 July 2008 – Everyone concentrated on the league. Click to continue reading...

And that's a wrap folks. Serie A 2007-2008 is officially over. (Cue some graduation song, or some goodbye song). If you don't have time to read the review or you just don't like my musings about Calcio, Week 38 is summed up for you in the title. And in case you skipped past the title and still don't know who was crowned champion, the picture of Javier Zanetti on the left pretty much gives it away.

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And that's a wrap folks. Serie A 2007-2008 is officially over. (Cue some graduation song, or some goodbye song). If you don't have time to read the review or you just don't like my musings about Calcio, Week 38 is summed up for you in the title. And in case you skipped past the title and still don't know who was crowned champion, the picture of Javier Zanetti on the left pretty much gives it away.

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Here we are at the penultimate day of the 2007/2008 Serie A season. It has been a long, interesting season with lots of battles in the table but this second to last day is really becoming more important than the last day, because lots of scenarios can be decided tomorrow after every referee has blown the final whistle.

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Week 36 (I incorrectly said it was Week 37 in the preview) turned out to be an interesting week in this last part of the 2007/2008 season. Here's what happened this weekend:

Milan-Inter: 2-1

In the match everyone was looking forward to, the Rossoneri won their first derby in 2 years after playing Inter off the pitch for most of the match.

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Sorry guys for the late post, but my internet has been down all day (Stupid Time Warner Cable!). So here's the weekend preview:

As you can see by the picture, the main event of Week 37 is the Derby della Madonnina between Milan and Inter. This derby has turned out to become one of the most important derbies in recent years.

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Mancio decided to eschew tactical concerns during Saturday's game in favor of making shadow puppets and/or scary faces.

I'm busy packing for an early flight, so here's your one sentence wrap up for each Serie A weekend game. (The team blogs are more than adequate for the good stuff.)

Inter 1 - Lazio 1: Crespo got it early, Rocchi got it back in the second, and Mancio is going to get it from the media all week.

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Inter v Juventus: Bigger match review here.

Roma 2 - Empoli 1: On a day when the real Alessandro del Piero looked like magic but couldn't finish, Sebastian Giovinco did the same, though he managed to slot home a gimme on a wide open counter.

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Just some video highlights of the best from round 30. Milan only beat Torino 1-0 but truly assaulted their goal during most of the match. Roma vs Empoli 2-1. Inter's lead at the top has been cut short to just 4 points now. Although Giovinco was causing all sorts of problems for Roma, a couple of goals [. Click to continue reading...

Author: Jeremy (That's not him....I think.)
Page: Cagliari

Jeremy gave a little bit of a relegation breakdown last week, for reasons which you can probably figure out, and offers up his take on the week's action from those in danger in Serie A.

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UEFA Cup Spot(s)

Sampdoria 3 - Catania 1: If you missed the train/bus, and didn't show up til the hour mark, you were totally cool, because the fireworks didn't start until the 68th. Four goals in the final 22, and you don't have to look at the scoreline to know who won - Catania was playing away from home.

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It's kinda hard not to feel bad for teams which get relegated (unless they've been immersed in scandal, or something) or at least fight the good fight against the drop. Yes, they're professional athletes and most of their pay checks will buy them many, many boxes of Kleenex to drown their Serie B sorrows in; but still, they work their arses off for a whole lotta nothin' at the end of the year.

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