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Player Focus: King Arturo Firing Juventus to Success

by Adam Digby at Friday, Dec 6 2013 11:10
Player Focus: King Arturo Firing Juventus to Success At their pre-season retreat in the Aostan hills, it didn’t take onlookers long to recognise the coach leading the Juventus squad through a punishing series of drills. It was not Antonio Conte, nor even fitness chief Paolo Bertelli, but midfielder Arturo Vidal who was forcing his teammates to p...
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Player Focus: Parolo Shining Among Parma Stars

by Adam Digby at Friday, Nov 1 2013 15:15
Player Focus: Parolo Shining Among Parma Stars The old idiom says you should never meet your heroes, but for a player with as unusual a career path as Marco Parolo, it is no surprise that conventional wisdom does not apply. Late last week, the midfielder gave an interview to his club's in-house television channel in which he admitted his admirat...
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League Focus: Foreign Defenders Taking Over in Serie A

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Oct 8 2013 16:22
League Focus: Foreign Defenders Taking Over in Serie A Before the advent of the internet, before dedicated television channels filled their schedules with matches from the farthest corners of the planet, all football fans had was the World Cup. In the years before football truly became the global game, supporters would have to wait four years to see the...
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League Focus: Striking Duos Set To Storm Serie A

by Adam Digby at Monday, Aug 5 2013 14:46
League Focus: Striking Duos Set To Storm Serie A In its early nineties pomp, Serie A was home to some of the greatest attacking duos European football had ever seen. Roberto Mancini and Luca Vialli won a league title for Sampdoria and were crowned I Gemelli del gol – The Goal Twins – for their incredible combined strike rate. Toto Schi...
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Player Focus: Carlos Tévez - The Top Signing Juve Have Been Waiting For

by Adam Digby at Friday, Jun 28 2013 10:02
Player Focus: Carlos Tévez - The Top Signing Juve Have Been Waiting For Just over sixty years ago, Juventus owner Gianni Agnelli decided his side needed an injection of attacking quality and twice broke the world transfer record to bring two foreign stars to Turin. One was a quiet and unassuming giant, the other a fiery Argentine with a questionable temperament, but as ...
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Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Jun 4 2013 12:55
Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus Shortly after he had returned to Juventus, Antonio Conte led his team south to the vociferous cauldron that Napoli call home, where the Bianconeri hadn’t secured a victory in over a decade. Inspired by their passionate home crowd, the Partenopei sprang into a 3-1 lead and were clearly in the a...
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League Focus: Serie A Defensive Stat Leaders

by Adam Digby at Monday, Dec 17 2012 16:50
League Focus: Serie A Defensive Stat Leaders “Defence wins Championships” goes the old adage and, looking at Juventus sitting in first place as the Winter Break draws ever closer, the Serie A table only serves to reinforce that point. They have conceded just ten goals in their opening seventeen games, a total seven fewer than any o...
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League Focus: Contrasting Styles In The Serie A Title Race

by Adam Digby at Monday, Dec 10 2012 16:59
League Focus: Contrasting Styles In The Serie A Title Race As referee Nicola Rizzoli blew the full time whistle at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on Sunday evening, he did so signalling not only the end of the match but also a significant shift in the season for the home side. Having struggled in recent weeks, Inter lifted themselves to the challenge of visitor...
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Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Dec 4 2012 15:10
Player Focus: Wesley Sneijder I'm going with my head high, I'm going to a great team, there's no doubt about that. I've been very happy here but now I have to look ahead and focus on my new team. What happened with me is something very strange. They have treated me very badly but I prefer not to talk about it.”Those words,...
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League Focus: Serie A’s Pass Masters

by Adam Digby at Monday, Nov 26 2012 17:49
League Focus: Serie A’s Pass Masters As their match finished in an improbable 2-2 draw last weekend, one of the standout features of the Inter-Cagliari fixture was the neatness both sides displayed in possession. Inter just shaded the overall figure, managing to keep the ball for 52 per cent of the encounter but both displayed some inc...
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