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Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Mar 29 2012 12:49
Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies The prominent American novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed it ‘The Me Decade’ as many of his countrymen “abandoned communal and left wing politics to take the money and run” yet, looking purely from a Serie A stand point, the 1970’s gave birth to a generation of footballers who h...
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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: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Mar 8 2012 14:45
Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic? The three midweek fixtures in Serie A on Wednesday meant that finally the league table had parity restored as all the matches cancelled due to bad weather were played at last. This provides us with, after weeks of various teams having games-in-hand, an opportunity to assess where the clubs sit with ...
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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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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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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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Team Focus: Purple Patch - Fiorentina's Surprising Defence

by Adam Digby at Friday, Feb 3 2012 15:34
Team Focus: Purple Patch - Fiorentina's Surprising Defence When looking at Fiorentina from afar, good news is seemingly hard to find. For a club with a history as storied as theirs, Viola heroes such as Giancarlo Antognoni, Gabriel Batistuta and Manuel Rui Costa have never felt so far away. The club appear to be the living embodiment of Murphy's Law; the ow...
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Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Jan 26 2012 16:01
Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival? During the early 1960's, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra watched two other greats - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris - repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs and commented; it's déjà vu all over again. While Inter's black and blue shirts could never be confused with the Bronx Bombers fa...
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