This is the game Southern California MLS fans have long awaited.
I'd like to say there's a buzz in the air, a sense of anticipation and tension and plenty of
concrete expressions of the rivalry that have temporarily divided friends and families.
I'd like to say that, but it wouldn't be true.
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New Delhi, India - Since there is not much to offer youth soccer players here in India, Deeksha
Sports Management (DSM), a group of professionals engaged in promoting sports events, organized the
first ever Italian Soccer Clinic this past September to help popularize the game of football.
In cooperation with Soccerkix, Italian Premier Soccer School, one of the most respected Italian
Soccer Program in the world, DSM had the chance to bring its Director, Mr.
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I'm biting my tongue from saying lots of people involved in Italian soccer are criminals.
But Luciano Spalletti is going to manage actual convicts in a unique game coming up Saturday.
According to La Repubblica, the Italian will take part in a specially organised match
that will see members of parliament take on convicted criminals on a prison football pitch in
Massa.
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Serie A Talk 11 September @ 04:00 AM EST
The Serie A Game to Watch this week features the only matchup of two teams in the top four in
the standings. Although it is only the third week of the season (sorry Sampdoria fans), both
Lazio and Juventus are eyeing a possible scudetto and this match could keep one club's
early momentum going.
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Everyone please take their seat. No talking! Please take out your scantron sheets and your #2
pencils. The Final Exam will commence momentarily. If you cheat, you will be red carded and given
an F. If you completed the required reading and attended class, you should do fine. If you were
stoned, you should still get an A.
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Most Italian soccer fans should be familiar with the name of Andrea Russotto. As a youngster he
was dubbed as "the next Roberto Baggio" and "Antonio Cassano with a level head"
but up until now he has not even been close to living up to those names. His story is a bit
particular, and for those of you that don't know it here it is.
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Fans wishing to support their team at away matches will need ID badges next season in Italy.
This goes into effect on January 1, 2010 according to Interior Minister Roberto Maroni. For -- what
else? -- anti-hooliganism measures:
The government believes the initiative will make it easier to police matches and track
down trouble makers, as part of their bid to combat hooliganism in Italian soccer.
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Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
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Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
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Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
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Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
Click to continue reading...
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
Click to continue reading...
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
Click to continue reading...
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
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Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
Click to continue reading...
Italian soccer, or calcio, is perhaps one of the more seductive of Europe's footballing cultures.
With defenders taught to dribble out of their own 16-yard box while moonlighting as fashion models,
and a turbulent history marked with corr...
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Corriere di Livorno is quoting the club president as saying that the deal for Ricardo
Clark is done. He claims that Clark will be staying with Houston because of their league position
and their inability to cope with the loss of their star player, so he will be joining Livorno in
January, during the winter transfer window.
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The Italian football team was trounced 3-0 by the Samba Kings of Brazil at the 2009 FIFA
Confederations Cup on Sunday. In attendance were the usual Brazilian and Italian soccer babes who
seem to follow the Selecção and Azzuri everywhere they go.  We featured a ton of them yesterday
in the first installment of  The [.
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I'd say it's becoming a bit of a rivalry. Maybe not a competitive one, but an emotional one, that
will continue later today.
You have 1) De Rossi's elbow on McBride in '06, 2) Giuseppe Rossi's defection, 3) my disdain for
Italian soccer.
Anyways, the USMNT finally recorded a tally by securing Italy's current training site for the 2010
World Cup.
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With AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti now in charge of Chelsea, word is he could bring veteran
midfielder Andrea Pirlo with him to Stamford Bridge.
Pretty sure the universe might explode if an Italian international joined the Premiership.
I checked the national team page on Wikipedia and the only EPL rep was Andrea Dossena of Liverpool
(an on-and-off starter).
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Reason #54,089 to hate Italian soccer.
Most Serie A fans would lament losing a top-flight superstar like Kaka to another league. Not
Italian national team coach Marcello Lippi.
"The more foreigners that leave Italy, the better it is for Italian
Calcio."
Yeah, who needs talent?
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Thank god this one's over -- and it finished with no surprises.
I'm actually glad to see the move. It gives Spanish side some serious potential (especially if
another move or two is made) and also Italian soccer is kinda lame these days.
We can thank Mr. Beckham in part:
"I spoke to some friends, like Beckham, who has already played for Real.
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Wilmington, NC - (May 27th, 09) - The All Year Scuola Calcio, Italian Soccer Boarding School will
help improve player's technical and tactical skills while studying in a different country.
Young soccer players from North America and around the world can improve their technical and
tactical soccer skills by attending one of the best and one of the most affordable soccer boarding
schools in the world.
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Wilmington, NC (May 22, 2009) – Soccer players from around the world are
applying to train at the Scuola Calcio, Italian Premier Soccer School's year long academic soccer
boarding school in Italy. Students will train daily under the Italian youth coaching staff.
Take a year to experience another country, learn another language, and sharpen your soccer skills
and knowledge.
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If you go to Pro Vercelli's "records" page in Football Manager 2009, you'll see that the worst
defeat in the club's history came in a match against Inter on April 24, 1910, which Pro Vercelli
lost 10-3. 10-3 is a catastrophic defeat by any standard, but the numbers alone can't convey the
magnitude of what happened that day.
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The newest hero in Manchester, Federico Macheda, has made an immediate impact on his club, while
at the same time exposing a flaw in the way Serie A does business.Â
The Italian Macheda was born in Rome in 1991, and began playing for the youth squads of the
Serie A club Lazio when he was 15.
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Serie A Talk 17 November @ 05:33 PM EST
Gazzetta dello Sport Kaka stalks Ibra - Milan beat Chievo with a penalty, but the foul was outside
the area Baptista is a beast - Roma laugh as they put down Lazio Camoranesi: Mourinho only has Ibra
Cassano, what a show, Mascara hits a hat-trick Lippi takes D'Agostino to Greece
Tuttosport Camoranesi: I would be an idiot to think that Inter are [.
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Soccer Source 29 September @ 07:43 PM EST
Neither wind nor rain nor stock market crashes nor presidential debates could keep the Top 25
ranking committee from convening for its weekly session. Sure, we're a bit late (we know you like
to have these things in your inbox Monday morning so you can kick off the "work" week in
fashion) but we make up for it with an extremely high quality edition of the rankings--even by our
absurdly high standards.
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Scuola Calcio 09 September @ 09:08 PM EST
This November children from India will attend the Italian Scuola Calcio (Soccer School)
program run by top Italian professional soccer instructors.This International program is been made possible by a relationship between Deeksha Sports
Management (DSM) a HTC Group Company and Scuola Calcio, Italian Premier Soccer School a Soccerkix
Company.
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Don't you just love Italian soccer? It's so... interesting. Take a look at this news story, for
example: Roberto Mancini, ex-coach of Inter, won the Trofeo Maestrelli award for being the
"Best Coach of 2008." I don't know if this could get any more ironic.
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Man I love Italian soccer. It always gives us the best content.
This story takes us to Turin -- or Torino if it's the Olympics -- where the moody Tiago was so
upset that Juventus was trying to ship him out that he trapped President
Giovanni Cobolli in
the bathroom.
Cobolli was in there for an hour before released.
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Here's a whole bunch of stuff going on in the Italian soccer world (and some stuff that's going
on in the non-Italian soccer world, but more on that in a bit).
-Lippi decided to talk a bit about his recent call ups. Apparently I wasn't the only one who was
kinda irked that most of the "old guard" (and I mean that literally) was called up.
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mCalcio 17 August @ 09:05 PM EST
Sunday was a sad day for Italian soccer, as one of the most charismatic club presidents of Serie A
passed away. In things of this nature there is no club distinction: we are all bound by the same
love for the beautiful game, and when one of us leaves the family it's always a sad
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While their countrymen battle for advancement in the Olympic Games over in China, two young
Americans are preparing themselves for the upcoming Italian soccer season.
Gabriel Ferrari, on loan from Sampdoria to Perugia, seems to be settling in well already seeing 75
minutes of playing time in this week's 3-2 preseason win over Catania.
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