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Six of the Best: Europe’s Golden Oldies

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Six of the Best: Europe’s Golden Oldies While football fans prefer to focus on youth prospects, there are those who defy their age to continue plying their trade at the highest level and excel. With that in mind, WhoScored.com present Europe’s Golden Oldies, of players in Europe aged 35 and older to have made four or more league app...

Totti Still Proving His Worth to Roma Despite Diminishing Role

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Totti Still Proving His Worth to Roma Despite Diminishing Role Radja Nainggolan put his foot in it again. Only this time, he did so off the pitch. On Tuesday, the Roma midfielder was the special guest at an event put on by the club to announce a new commercial partner. Mobbed by fans who sang his name as he made his way to the venue on Via del Corso, the adulat...

League Focus: Roma in Danger of Losing Touch of Relentless Juventus

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League Focus: Roma in Danger of Losing Touch of Relentless Juventus Before Sunday’s game against Verona at the Juventus Stadium, a banner was unfurled in the stands. “The years and seasons pass but once again we’re winter champions.” The Old Lady had been anointed with a week to spare following a 3-1 win away in Naples and she showed no mercy...

Player Focus: Francesco Totti - Rome's Gladiatorial Creator

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Player Focus: Francesco Totti - Rome's Gladiatorial Creator AS Roma talisman Francesco Totti often goes by many a differing nickname: The Golden Boy, The King of Rome or The Gladiator, to name three. Fitting for a player that is currently Serie A’s second all-time leading goalscorer with 227 goals. 47 goals behind Silvio Piola, and at 36 years of age, ...

Player Focus: Questionable International Omissions

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Player Focus: Questionable International Omissions The international break is a quiet time for football, with little in the way of breaking news, but each manager's choices in his squad selection ensure there are talking points aplenty and a fair, though relatively small, amount of controversy. The continued inclusion of Emile Heskey in England squa...

Player Focus: Europe's Golden Oldies

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Player Focus: Europe's Golden Oldies The focus of transfer policy these days is almost unreservedly on investment in youth and looking to the future. Paul Lambert at Aston Villa, for example, has bought his players young and on countless occasions this season fielded a starting eleven with an average age of just 23, but the failings of...

Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists

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Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists The art of the free kick has become one so practised in the modern game that the poses of the likes of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo as they line up a shot are now instantly recognisable. Ronaldo’s routine puff of his chest and is more iconic than Jonny Wilkinson’s stance before a ...

Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies

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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...

Serie A Top 10 Key Passers

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Serie A Top 10 Key Passers Our series of article on Key Passers continues with a look at Serie A. Italy’s top division is renowned for its defensive solidity and, in comparison to the Premier League Key Passers, our top ten found it harder, on average, to make assists here. Our lists contains players who saw promising s...

Serie A Top 10 Talismen

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Serie A Top 10 Talismen Our look at the top ten talismen for each of Europe’s main five leagues turns to Italy, with Serie A next under the microscope. While La Liga and the Premier League had five players contributing to 50% or more of their team’s goals when on the pitch, Serie A has as many as seven, suggest...