Samuel Kuffour futbola 32 yaşında veda etti. Biz onu Bayern defansında tanıdık. Güven vermeyen, güçlü duruşuna rağmen heran bir sakatlık çıkarabilecek görünümü ile iyi ekmek yedi Münih'ten. Hırsı ile işi götürdü yıllarca. Bayern sonrası Nürnberg, Roma, Livorno ve Ajax'ta oynadı. Click to continue reading...

Sırp oyuncu Nikola Lazetić Fenerbahçe ortasına dinamizm katmıştı. Gattuso'ya benzetirdim kendisini, tıknaz ama son derece güçlü ve dayanıklı. Fenerbahçe'de 2 sene oynadıktan sonra Serie A'ya gitti. Tahmin edilenden uzun süre kaldı o ligte. Üstelik Como, Chiveo, Lazio, Genoa, Siena, Livorno ve Torino formaları giyerek. Click to continue reading...

He was the surprise call-up to begin with. Everyone looked at Casiraghi's Olympic call-ups and said with a puzzled look, "Rocchi?" (come on, you know you did it). Casiraghi gave his explanation, saying the Lazio hitman was an experienced player, a model professional, and an excellent addition to the Italy side who could score many goals in this Olympic games.

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Pablo Mastroeni, the veteran defensive midfielder and longtime face of the Colorado Rapids, may want to leave Denver and seek to further his career in Europe before his contract expires in December. He is reported to be considering that option, according to today's Denver Post (link below). Click to continue reading...

What's that I smell? Is that...Luciano Moggi? More questions now surrounding thaegitimacy of two matches in Serie A this season, after a year of refereeing which brought back memories of World Cup 2002 and everything Juventus did for a 3 year period. The incidents involve the actions between one Atalanta player and five Livorno players and [. Click to continue reading...

2008/09 will be a season that all faithful Juve fans have been waiting for. Return to the Champions League and a real title challenge awaits them, and with these challenges must come new players. Dario Knezevic chose Juventus to end an embarrassing transfer derby between Juve and Torino (Livorno President Franco Spinelli had sold Knezevic [. Click to continue reading...

Hello folks. Hope your enjoying your holiday. For those of you looking for a soccer fix, here are a few stories to tide you over:

Italian players accused of match-fixing

From the "Not again" department comes word out of Rome that five players from Atalanta and Livorno have been charged with match-fixing.

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In questo momento la Juventus sta presentando ufficialmente l'acquisto (acquisto si fa per dire perchè arriva in prestito) di Dario Knezevic, preso dal Livorno, che però, stando a quanto dice il presidente del torino cairo, lo avrebbe già venduto alla società granata la scorsa settimana.

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Il Chiello da Livorno

E pensare che la nuova dirigenza bianconera, lo voleva cedere in Inghilterra. Palati fini!

Lo stesso palato non lo ha avuto Roberto Donadoni, commissario tecnico della nazionale azzurra, anche se ha rischiato di andarci vicino.

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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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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's what I found interesting today:

-Livorno director Elio Signorelli assumed some responsibility for Livorno's relegation to Serie B. Why? Because he was the one that chose Livorno's strikeforce over the summer. He said that he was sure that Tavano, Rossini, Bogdani, Tristan, and Volpe would've scored a combined 20-25 goals during the season.

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Here's what I found interesting today:

-Livorno director Elio Signorelli assumed some responsibility for Livorno's relegation to Serie B. Why? Because he was the one that chose Livorno's strikeforce over the summer. He said that he was sure that Tavano, Rossini, Bogdani, Tristan, and Volpe would've scored a combined 20-25 goals during the season.

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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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At the cost of sounding redundant, it looks like the Scudetto race has finally picked its winner. Yeah yeah I know, I must have said this a million times already and every time Roma slipped up, Inter proved my ass wrong by fu**ing up a week later. This time however, looks like it's curtains down for [. Click to continue reading...

Roma were held at home by Livorno last night and hence dropped two vital points in the chase to beat Inter to another Scudetto. They'll rue a lot of wasted chances as really they should've been a few in front by half-time. No goals in the first half but ten minutes after the restart, Vucinic [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

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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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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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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Last giornata 8 teams walked away from their fixture having failed to score a goal. This weekend 8 scored more than 2 and 2 games found 8 goals for a grand total of 35 goals. On behalf of calcio fans everywhere: Thank you.

Cagliari 1 - Lazio 0: You can't root against Cagliari.

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A host of interesting transfer tidbits... Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp has told Spurs they can stick their plans to sign David James where the sun doesn't shine. (Daily Mirror) ..Spurs, possibly scared off by 'Arry's opposition to their David James move, have also made enquiries about Livorno's 25-year-old 'keeper Marco Amelia. Click to continue reading...