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...

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...

29/08/2009Modena - Ascoli ore 19.00Piacenza - Lecce ore 19.00Reggina - Padova ore 19.00Triestina - Grosseto ore 19.00Vicenza - Sassuolo ore 19.00Cittadella - Albinoleffe ore 19.00Crotone - Brescia ore 19.00Frosinone - Mantova ore 19.00Ancona - Salernitana ore 19.00Gallipoli - Cesena ore 19.0030/08/2009Torino - Empoli ore 20. Click to continue reading...

Ecco una piccola bibbia per i calciofili e gli sportivi di tutt'Italia. Pian piano le società di calcio della Serie A riprendono il lavoro, in vista della stagione 2009/10. Ritiri e amichevoli la fanno da padrone. S'inizia a faticare per presentarsi in forma all'inizio del campionato. Click to continue reading...

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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The 23-player squads for all 8 U-21 Euro 2009 teams are listed below. Only players born on or after 1 January 1986 are eligible to play in the 2009 U-21 European Championships.

Group A
Belarus Euro 2009 Squad

Head coach: Yuri Kurnenin

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 GK Pavel Chesnovskiy 4 March 1986 (aged 23) FC Vitebsk 2 DF Nikolai Osipovich 29 May 1986 (aged 23) MTZ-RIPO 3 DF Aleksandr Martynovich 26 August 1987 (aged 21) Dinamo Minsk 4 DF Igor Shitov 24 October 1986 (aged 22) BATE 5 DF Maksim Bordachyov 18 June 1986 (aged 22) BATE 6 MF Sergei Balanovich 29 August 1987 (aged 21) Shakhtyor Soligorsk 7 MF Sergey Krivets 8 June 1986 (aged 23) BATE 8 MF Aleksandr Volodko 18 June 1986 (aged 22) BATE 9 FW Leonid Kovel 29 July 1986 (aged 22) Saturn Moscow Oblast 10 FW Dmitri Komarovskiy 10 October 1986 (aged 22) Naftan Novopolotsk 11 MF Mikhail Afanasyev 4 November 1986 (aged 22) Amkar Perm 12 GK Artem Gomelko 8 December 1989 (aged 19) Lokomotiv Moscow 13 MF Aleksandr Sachivko 5 January 1986 (aged 23) FC Minsk 14 MF Anton Putilo 10 June 1987 (aged 22) Dinamo Minsk 15 MF Sergei Kislyak 6 August 1987 (aged 21) Dinamo Minsk 16 DF Oleg Veretilo 10 July 1988 (aged 20) Dinamo Minsk 17 MF Sergei Gigevich 26 January 1987 (aged 22) Dinamo Minsk 18 DF Dmitry Verkhovtsov 10 October 1986 (aged 22) Naftan Novopolotsk 19 DF Aleksei Yanushkevich 15 January 1986 (aged 23) Shakhtyor Soligorsk 20 FW Vladimir Yurchenko 26 January 1989 (aged 20) Saturn Moscow Oblast 21 MF Mikhail Sivakov 16 January 1988 (aged 21) Cagliari 22 GK Anton Kovalevskiy 2 February 1986 (aged 23) Naftan Novopolotsk 23 DF Andrei Chukhley 2 October 1987 (aged 21) Dinamo Minsk
Italy Euro 2009 Squad

Head coach: Pierluigi Casiraghi

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On June 16th, Italy will play their first game of the UEFA U-21 Championship 2009 vs. Serbia. The Azzurrini find themselves in a group with Belarus, Serbia, and hosts Sweden. Italy have always been successful at this level however they have not won the U-21 Championship since 2004. Pierluigi Casiraghi has been unsuccessful with the Azzurrini so far since taking over from Claudio Gentile in 2006 and this is arguably his last chance.

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This the end of the year (in case you don't own a calendar) and as is custom, it's time for year end lists. You might do the world's best XI, we decided to do our most favoritest things of 2008 (the three of us doing our own - lord knows Yoann Gourcuff's crotch was not [...] Click to continue reading...

Serie B has always been an interesting championship. There's always a good mix of clubs that were just in Serie A, clubs with lots of history and tradition, yo-yo Serie B/C clubs, and little teams that performed miracles by just getting promoted to Serie B. There are always those teams out to surprise, and this year the Italian second division has been extremely interesting.

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LUNEDÌ LA CHIUSURA DEL MERCATO. QUEL GIORNO SI DECIDERANNO LE ULTIME CESSIONI DA COMPLETARE
Alvarez diviso tra Chievo e Pisa
Quattro squadre su Andreolli, convocato da Casiraghi. Per Montella si pensa agli Usa
Contatti, non contratti: nel giorno della presentazione ufficiale
di Jeremy Menez, la società si è dedicata allo sfoltimento
della rosa, che però entrerà nel vivo solo dopo la conclusione
delle gare della prima giornata: la serie B gioca oggi, la serie A domani,
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Along with Serie A this weekend, Serie B will kick-off as well. The second division has many exciting teams this year and it should provide for an interesting campaign. In my opinion Serie B is the best second division in Europe. There are so many quality players in Serie B and it is a league with lots of skill and technique.

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Serie B (which I still consider to be Europe's top second division) has made some changes for next season regarding squad size. Even though they play 42 games in Serie B, lots of squads have very big rosters and most coaches don't tinker with the line-up often, which culminates in lots of players sitting on the bench all year.

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