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Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe?

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Mar 20 2012 13:02
Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe? A team currently in eighth place in the league would rarely catch the attention of many and, when the side is a tiny club that has rarely left an impression on Italian football the likelihood of them catching the eye falls even further. Yet there sit Catania, a club only founded in 1946 as the game ...
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Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Mar 14 2012 10:35
Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento The name of Diego Maradona, despite his retirement as a player coming as long ago as 1997, is never far from the headlines, whether it be yet another comparison with Lionel Messi or his latest incredulous outburst as coach of Dubai side Al Wasl, the man widely regarded as the worlds greatest ever fo...
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Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream

by Adam Digby at Friday, Mar 2 2012 11:36
Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream At first glance there was very little significance about the sixty-sixth minute goal. A defender tapping in at the far post to give a Champions League contender and title hopeful a 2-1 lead away to one of Serie A’s minnows is about as routine as it gets. Yet as Napoli’s Hugo Campagnaro w...
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League Focus: Serie A Squad Rotation

by Jacopo Piotto at Thursday, Mar 1 2012 11:45
League Focus: Serie A Squad Rotation After the reformatting of UEFA-competitions in the 90s saw more teams playing in the European Cups and increased the number of games in those tournaments, top-leagues' teams changed the way they managed their squads. As most of the leagues now have 20 clubs, 44 matches per season is the lightest pos...
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Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Feb 22 2012 12:12
Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors Now famous across Italy, young Inter fan Filippo recently held up a placard at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, begging his heroes to play well so he wasn’t made fun of at school. Sadly for the kid, whose sad fate has not only been broadcast to the nation but is now the ridicule of Milan fans, ligh...
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Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena

by Adam Digby at Monday, Feb 20 2012 13:03
Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena At first glance, newly promoted Siena seemingly offer very little in the way of talking points, sitting in sixteenth place in Serie A and just five points outside the relegation places. They also have none of the big name players seeing out their playing days lower down the table that some of the si...
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League Focus: Serie A's Midfield Evolution

by Jacopo Piotto at Thursday, Feb 16 2012 10:59
League Focus: Serie A's Midfield Evolution Italian football is facing a crisis that started at the end of the 90s. After reaching 9 Champions League finals in 10 years as of the 1988/89 season, the big clubs haven't dominated as they had before. Tactics have always been the key for Italian teams to win all over Europe. However, thanks to mor...
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Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Feb 9 2012 13:03
Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority Unlike other leagues, Serie A is not commonly associated with great headers of the ball, even among its defenders. While England and English football bring to mind classic number nines and lumbering central defenders, Italy is more readily thought of for bringing culture to the game and beyond the a...
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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Jan 12 2012 17:25
The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...
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Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now

by Martin Laurence at Friday, Jan 6 2012 18:13
Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now Like La Liga in Spain, Italy's Serie A returns to action this weekend, so we take the time to analyse the league's All Star XI up to now based upon WhoScored ratings.As many as 8 sides are represented, indicating the tight nature of a league that reigning champions AC Milan top on goal difference ah...
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