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League Focus: It's Not All About The Money in Serie A

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Sep 11 2012 16:32
League Focus: It's Not All About The Money in Serie A As is now customary, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport has published the salary of every player in Serie A. The figures are given in terms of annual salary paid after tax and includes no bonus payments of any kind, allowing the most simplistic of comparisons across the teams, players and ...
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Player Focus: Why did Juventus sign Nicklas Bendtner?

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Sep 4 2012 14:42
Player Focus: Why did Juventus sign Nicklas Bendtner? Whether through drunkenness or as part of a publicity stunt, he shows off his pants. He’s got a terrible attitude and thinks he’s the greatest striker alive today. These criticisms – plus many others that are unrepeatable here – have been cast upon Nicklas Bendtner and Juvent...
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Serie A’s Week One Analysis: Il verdetto del campo

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Aug 28 2012 14:54
Serie A’s Week One Analysis: Il verdetto del campo Italian’s often refer to ‘il verdetto del campo’ (the verdict of the pitch) as the definitive judge of players, teams and coaches and, by using the games of the opening weekend a number of points become apparent. Yes, after months of speculation, rumour and scandal, the world of Se...
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League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Aug 21 2012 10:58
League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers The start of the new Serie A season is almost upon us, with Italy’s top flight set to return to action this coming weekend. In a summer transfer window which has seen six of the previous campaign's top twenty performers (according to our own WhoScored.com ranking system) changing clubs, we dec...
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League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers

by Adam Digby at Monday, May 21 2012 14:41
League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers Italian football has always been home to some of the world’s biggest names and, while many factors have contributed to the lure of the peninsula losing some of its former sheen, there are still many top players plying their trade in the Bel Paese. Many of these – including Gigi Buffon, Z...
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Team Focus: Serie A Champions Juventus

by Adam Digby at Thursday, May 10 2012 16:57
Team Focus: Serie A Champions Juventus Well, there it is. The Old Lady of Turin is back at the summit of Serie A, Champions of Italy for the first time in five years. After the hell of Calciopoli and the purgatory of a season spent in Serie B, Andrea Agnelli, Beppe Marotta and Fabio Paratici delivered the ingredients for a successful tea...
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Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Apr 26 2012 17:05
Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby When drawing up a list of world football’s most hotly contested derby encounters, the same games inevitably crop up time and again. Boca Juniors v River Plate, Partizan v Red Star, Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray and Celtic v Rangers are always among the usual suspects while a list of exclusiv...
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Player Focus: Luca Cigarini (Atalanta)

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Apr 19 2012 12:54
Player Focus: Luca Cigarini (Atalanta) Technically he's very good and can play with both feet. He sits just in front of the defence and from there channels the play. He's perfectly suited to the type of game we play at this club. Those were the words of Sporting Director Ramón Rodríguez upon his club Sevilla announcing the ...
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Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists

by Adam Digby at Friday, Apr 13 2012 11:45
Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists With Milan having stumbled at home to Fiorentina last week and thus holding a title-deciding door open for Turin’s Old Lady, Juventus kicked off against Palermo last Saturday evening knowing a win would take them top of the table for the first time in over two months. The opening goal in a gam...
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Player Focus: Assessing Juve’s Paolo De Ceglie

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Apr 4 2012 16:08
Player Focus: Assessing Juve’s Paolo De Ceglie Aside from among the Serie A aficionados, the name of Juventus left-back Paolo De Ceglie is unlikely to be a familiar one to many football fans. Yet the announcement, made via the Turin club’s official website recently (March 21), that the 25 year old had signed a new contract raised an almost...
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