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Postcards from the Italian Cup
Turin saw yet another installment of the looming challenge between Juventus and its past, this time in the shape of former coach Ranieri. Roma’s goals made the hopes of the bianconeri for the last piece of silverware to touch this season sink into a pit of abysmal desperation. The match has been cagey, scrappy and ...
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Zaccheroni, the samurai from Cesenatico
In the Adriatic province of Cesenatico, where winter days are spent between the fishing of the clams the town calls poverazze and ripe cheese on piadina, a type of local pita bread, Zaccheroni’s achievements with Japan in the Asian Cup must have made headlines. Zaccheroni’s Japan has reached the finals by beating first Qatar 3-2 ...
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The new geopolitics of Italian soccer
Napoli could only contend for roughly an hour against the already revitalized Inter of Leonardo, but the first round of matches in the Serie A confirms a trend in which the Northern power houses of football are facing increasing opposition from teams located in the Center-South of the peninsula—a paradigm that effectively inverts Italy’s traditional ...
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At the turn of the year, a shape-shifter in the Serie A
Leonardo’s wacky and confident style of playing has clearly elicited warm and welcoming feelings from Inter’s locker room, despite his past as both a AC Milan star and coach, as the nerazzurri moved to beat the widely accredited team of Napoli with a score of 3-1. The top of the chart is still a telescope-distance ...
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Top of the Serie A, is Napoli for real?
As the early window of the January market is already keeping attorneys and pundits busy with transfering options, the first day of matches after the Christmas break is on its way tomorrow. Among top contenders, Napoli is facing with the distressing reality of meeting first Internazionale, and then Inter’s über-enemy of late, Juventus, in what ...
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Allegri Leaves Ronaldinho 7 Minutes of ‘Entertainment’
A technical analysis of this weekend’s top match in Milan.
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Arsenal failing to learn from a tactical switch in UEFA soccer
After a lacklustre 1-0 defeat by Manchester United, Arsenal is stuck at 32 points with a second-tier-branded glue. Most soccer fans outside of England have probably heard of this game as a fairly conservative affair. With Berbatov and Van Persie out (the second was only fit for the bench), both teams struggled to set a ...
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Is the four-man midfield a white elephant in the Serie A?
The point on the Serie A top-chart teams, from the point of view of Italy’s emerging distrust for its once cherished four-man midfield.
