Le dichiarazioni di Cicinho al sito internet globoesporte.globo.com - e riportate da forzaroma.info - dopo la partita vinta dalla Roma contro l'Atalanta.

"La Roma è un grande club, abituato a vincere e la pressione della gente è grande. Non abbiamo cominciato bene la stagione ma a poco a poco le cose stanno rientrando nella normalità. Click to continue reading...

In the modern game you always hear stories of players being prima donnas or trying to get a bigger contract or making a move to a big club just for the money, but Ciro Ferrara was a player who was none of those things. Ferrara was a model professional, a consistent performer, and even if he wasn't world renowned during his playing career he is simply one of the best defenders Italy has ever produced.

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This past week in Italy witnessed two of the traditional Scudetto contenders rise to the top. Inter is in 1st Juventus in 2nd. In the case of the Team Of The Week, they pulled themselves out of the relegation zone and served notice. It was a tough choice between two teams based in the region of Lombardia but the TOW's performance [. Click to continue reading...

IL TERZINO HA PARLATO A "GUARDA CHE LUPA",IL CENTRALE A SKY SPORT 24:DOMANI POTREBBE TOCCARE NUOVAMENTE A LORO

Panucci:«Non sarà una partita facile»

«Il calcio romeno ha tradizione, ed hanno molti sudamericani». Loria: «Mi farò trovare pronto»

Di FRANCESCO ODDI
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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...

La conferenza stampa integrale (parola per parola) di Luciano Spalletti, allenatore della Roma, alla vigilia della prima gara di campionato contro in Napoli.

Roma-Napoli sarà una gara delicata. Che match prevede? Che Napoli si aspetta? Che messaggio vuole mandare alle tifoserie?
«Sarà una partita delicata perché è la prima e abbiamo davanti una buona squadra, che ha fatto bene nel campionato precedente. Click to continue reading...

For information on European Golden Boot Winners see - European Golden Boot and for previous top goalscorers in Serie A, Top Scorers Season by Season don't forget the previous poll -Who will win the Scudetto?  is still open until Match Day One so place your votes, AC Milan are currently leading. (picture by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) Bookmark to: Click to continue reading...

Here's the third installment of the Serie A preview. In this part we take a look at Milan, Napoli, Palermo, Reggina, and Roma.

MILAN

This is the year Milan has to redeem themselves. The Rossoneri had a season way below expectations last year, based on a mix of injuries and a terrible summer transfer market.

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SuperCoppa Primer: Held yearly a week before the Serie A season starts.Its competed for by the Scudetto Champion (Inter) and the Coppa Italia winner (AS Roma)It was played in Milan because Inter were regular season Champions. Todays game was the twenty first installment.This is the third straight year Inter and Roma have met. Click to continue reading...

Guardatosi un pezzo di partita (8-0 per la Juventus A sulla Primavera con 6 reti del partente Pasquato) seduto a bordo campo, come faceva il nonno, a Villar Perosa John Elkann non pianta traguardi, ma neppure li preclude alla Juve, in vista della stagione appena iniziata con i preliminari di Champions League: «Lo scudetto?

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Finally, after weeks of anticipation, the curtain to the 2008/2009 Serie A season will be raised. The SuperCoppa always brings joy to fans starved of calcio for months, as it means the season will finally begin. Yet again, the match is Inter-Roma, the umpteenth battle between the Giallorossi and the Nerazzurri in recent years.

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LA NAZIONALE VA A NIZZA,I QUATTRO ROMANISTI AVRANNO UN PERMESSO PER RECARSI ALLA CAMERA ARDENTE

«Quindici anni d'amore»

Il Capitano: «Un dolore fortissimo, perdiamo una figura cardine della nostra storia. Al Circo Massimo il ricordo più bello»
Aquilani: «Per noi romani è stato come un secondo padre». Click to continue reading...

È STATO SOSPESO A LUNGO PER ECCESSO DI RIALZO

Dopo la notizia in Borsa il titolo fa boom:+18%

Ha reagito molto bene la Borsa alla notizia della morte di Franco
Sensi: per buona parte della seduta il titolo dell'A.S. Roma
è rimasto sospeso per eccesso di rialzo, e al termine delle contrattazioni
è stato fissato a 1,08 euro, con un guadagno del 18,32%. Click to continue reading...

Il presidente della Roma Franco Sensi è morto ieri sera al Policlinico Gemelli, dove era ricoverato da tempo, nel reparto di terapia intensiva, per problemi respiratori. Aveva 82 anni. La notizia del suo ricovero era diventata di dominio pubblico poco prima di Ferragosto quando Rosella Sensi, amministratore delegato dell'AS Roma, aveva parlato delle condizioni del padre incontrando alcuni tifosi fuori dall'ospedale. Click to continue reading...

Questa mattina a Trigoria, Spalletti, Totti, Juan e Cicinho sono stati intervistati da Sky.

Spalletti: "Totti? Ieri sera ha fatto vedere che sono quasi stati fatti dei miracoli per riaverlo a disposizione dopo il grave infortunio. Siamo contenti, ma per avere un completo recupero c'è bisogno ancora di un po' di tempo. Click to continue reading...

Arrigo Sacchi, ex commissario tecnico della Nazionale, a Radio Radio Tv:
"La squadra che ha meno scommesse di tutte è la Roma. Nonostante non abbia acquistato un grosso calciatore, se troverà convinzioni e non sarà condizionata dalla Champions punterà per lo scudetto. Baptista e Malouda migliorerebbero la gia grande squadra che è. Click to continue reading...

Serie A heavyweights Roma have confirmed their transfer targets for what remains of the summer, as they look to replace wingers Mancini and Ludovi Giuly. Giallorossi coach Luciano Spaletti has revealed that his side are tracking Liverpool's Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun as they look to wrestle the Scudetto from Inter's grasp. Click to continue reading...

Here's the calcio news that I thought was most interesting today:

-Luciano Spalletti said that: "Our club can't just go out and buy whoever it wants, everything has to be carefully done and hopefully we'll have some players that can benefit our roster. Malouda and Baptista are two targets that we want, but we'll have to see how the deals evolve.

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France's all time most-capped player, Lillian Thuram, called an end to a distinguished career Friday afternoon at a press conference in Paris. The central defender was in the process of transferring from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain when the medical exam uncovered a heart defect which led to Thuram's decision to end an excellent career. Click to continue reading...

I recall during the 2006 World Cup when a colleague from La Stampa turned to me and called Oguchi Onyewu, the "American Materazzi." Of course this was well before Materazzi's incident with Zinedine Zidane during the World Cup final so there was no doubt he meant it as a compliment to the American player curently with Standard Liege. Click to continue reading...

It's that time of year again when "Silly Season" finally starts to wind down and the thoughts begin to focus on the upcoming season, and finally the schedule for this season has been set. Week 1 begins with a bang as the Juve-Fiorentina rivalry is the obvious highlight, and Inter opening their defense of the Scudetto away at Sampdoria should be entertaining as well. Click to continue reading...

Mohamed Sissoko has cast further doubt on Xabi Alonso's proposed move from Liverpool to Juventus.

Sissoko made such a move himself in January but believes the Spaniard is happy at Anfield.

His comments come as the transfer of the £16million rated midfielder appears to have stalled. Click to continue reading...

Nel giorno in cui la Juventus ha ufficialmente iniziato la stagione 2008/2009 Claudio Ranieri ha affermato a chiare lettere che ambire allo scudetto è lecito. Ho letto di parecchie lamentele sulla Rete riguardo a questa affermazione, in quanto la squadra sembra, ad esclusione di Amauri, la stessa della scorso anno, ma più vecchia e con una competizione in più da affrontare.

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Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has spoken of his "fascination" with Italian football as speculation over his mooted transfer to Juventus continues apace.

The Liverpool playmaker is part of the Spain squad preparing to face Italy in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008 on Sunday, a match during which Alonso could come face to face with a number of future team-mates at the Bianconeri. Click to continue reading...

According to reports coming from Italy, Juventus are set to announce the capture of Xabi Alonso from Liverpool later on today, even though there are still some minor details which need to be ironed out between the two clubs.

Italian daily 'La Stampa' revealed how the Bianconeri will announce the signing of Xabi Alonso later today as he completes his move from Liverpool for a sum of around 18 million Euros. Click to continue reading...

La Gazzetta dello Sport announced this morning that coach Roberto Mancini has been fired. http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Primo_Piano/2008/05_Maggio/27/mancini.shtml The Italian coach took charge of Inter on 1 July 2004, and in four seasons at Inter had a winning percentage of 63.2 in 152 Seria A matches--42 ties and 14 losses. Click to continue reading...

I went right down to the wire as Inter wasted chance after chance to seal their third Scudetto in as many years but on the last match day, Ibrahimovic came out to grab a brace against Parma and kick off the celebrations. Just enough to keep Roma in second but they couldn't go the double [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

I went right down to the wire as Inter wasted chance after chance to seal their third Scudetto in as many years but on the last match day, Ibrahimovic came out to grab a brace against Parma and kick off the celebrations. Just enough to keep Roma in second but they couldn't go the double [...] Click to continue reading...

ITALY SOCCER
Originally uploaded by fenice9901 AS Roma's captain Francesco Totti, right, and teammate Daniele De Rossi, left, hold the trophy with team president Rosella Sensi, at center, after AS Roma defeated Inter Milan 2-1, to win the Italy Cup final in Rome's Olympic stadium, Saturday, May 24, 2008. Click to continue reading...

Week-End Reviews Well, it's all over: another year of Serie A has come to a close, with Internazionale crowned champions of 2007-08. It was an exciting season but all good things must come to an end, and make way for Euro 20008. :) Here are the results and summaries for matchday 38. I recommend in particular Italy Offside's thorough [. Click to continue reading...

Veni vidi vici indeed. He came (or returned, rather), he saw, he conquered. While there is no doubt that this year's Scudetto was the result of team effort, the Nerazzurri have but one man to thank for achieving that objective on the last matchday of Serie A... and that man is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Returning from a [. Click to continue reading...

I decided, since this weekend Inter and Roma play crucial games on the last day of the season to decide the Scudetto, to post two videos of what happened to both teams the last time they were in the same situation. (Having to win on the last day to win the Scudetto)

The last time Inter had to win on the last day was the infamous 5 Maggio 2002 (Sorry Inter fans).

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Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster's Full Podcast's Good, Bad and Ugly section - a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our online quizzes and crosswords, worksheets and English for football phrases as well as the Learners' Podcast. crucial - vital, important Ryan Giggs scored the crucial [. Click to continue reading...

Premier League champions, UEFA Cup winners, relegation, the Copa Libertadores and violence in Manchester all feature on this week's the good, the bad and the ugly. Good Manchester United win their 10th Premier League title and their 17th overall after beating Wigan 2-0 away. Ryan Giggs is the hero as he scores the crucial second goal on [. Click to continue reading...

Well well well... it's nice to see everything is back in order in Serie A. I was starting to miss matchdays like these: back in the day, amidst all the footy chaos and odd results there was still one fixed constant in the universe, namely Inter's uncanny ability to shoot themselves in the foot. If you've been following [. Click to continue reading...