Team Focus: Serie A Champions Juventus
by Adam Digby
at четверг, май 10 2012 16:57
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...
Team Focus: Atalanta
by Jacopo Piotto
at вторник, апр 17 2012 16:03
Atalanta's season started with a bang; promoted from Serie B, they knew that safety was their only goal. However, on the 9th of August the club was given a 6-point penalty, compromising all of their plans for the season to come. The potential safety mark was virtually upped from 40 to 46 points and ...
Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe?
by Adam Digby
at вторник, мар 20 2012 13:02
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 ...
Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento
by Adam Digby
at среда, мар 14 2012 10:35
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...
Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream
by Adam Digby
at пятница, мар 2 2012 11:36
League Focus: Serie A Squad Rotation
by Jacopo Piotto
at четверг, мар 1 2012 11:45
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...
Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors
by Adam Digby
at среда, фев 22 2012 12:12
Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena
by Adam Digby
at понедельник, фев 20 2012 13:03
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...
League Focus: Serie A's Midfield Evolution
by Jacopo Piotto
at четверг, фев 16 2012 10:59
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...
Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority
by Adam Digby
at четверг, фев 9 2012 13:03
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...