September 29th, 2009

To Monaco!

By that, I mean Munich of course. I did not mention in my Calcio dictionary post Italian names for cities, because it’s not calcio and there’d be far to many! But Monaco is one that confuses a lot of non-Italian speaking Serie A fans, as the Italian name for Munich is of course, Monaco. Anyways, [...]

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September 28th, 2009

PotD: The Return Of Nedved

By: roberto |

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Pavel Nedved has made a comeback to Juventus, but only for a visit at Vinovo. The former midfielder returned to the club’s training ground for the first time on Monday since leaving at the end of last season.
Nedved wanted to be there to help encourage his former team-mates ahead of the Champions League showdown [...]

Category: Blanc, Champions League, Coaching, Competitions, Juventus, People, Players, Scudetto, Secco, Serie A, Team Management, Team News

Tags: bayern munich, Blanc, Champions League, Coaching, Competitions, Gigli, Juventus, Pavel Nedved, People, Players, Retirement, Scudetto, Secco, Serie A, Team Management, Team News

September 27th, 2009

Excuse Me While I Go Puke In The Corner

By: roberto |

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Oh good, he knows how to point.
How the f*ck can you drop two points in stoppage time? You continue to rely on half-retarded pylons (excluding Giorgio) to man your back line. What the hell is Legrottaglie still doing in the Serie A? I have no damn clue. In fact, what’s funny about it is, he [...]

Category: Chiellini, Coaching, Competitions, Ferrara, Grygera, Juventus, Legrottaglie, Molinaro, Players, Previews & Reviews, Scudetto, Serie A, Team News, Tiago

Tags: chiellini, Coaching, Competitions, Ferrara, Grygera, Juventus, Legrottaglie, Molinaro, Players, Previews & Reviews, Scudetto, Serie A, Team News, Tiago

September 26th, 2009

Alessio’s Comprehensive Calcio Dictionary

By: alessio |

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I know that a lot Juventus fans are not Italian, nor do they speak Italian. With this idea, I’ve written up a translation for a lot of words you’ll hear commonly used in calcio, some of which I use frequently myself. In a lot of cases, the Italian word helps us differentiate where English has [...]

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Tags: Atalanta, azzurri, bari, basics, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Chievo, FIGC, Fiorentina, Genoa, Inter, italian, Juventus, Lazio, Livorno, Milan, Napoli, nazionale, Palermo, Parma, Sampdoria, Serie A, Siena, Team News, Udinese

September 25th, 2009

Genoa Recap and Bologna-Juventus Preview

By: alessio |

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Thoughts on Genoa: I look at this game a day later with a calmer head, and it still is puzzling to me. This was one of our best performances of the season, we dominated an elite team at their home. They had 3 chances on net, and we had countless that were either annulled or [...]

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Tags: Amauri, Bologna, Boniperti, Di Vaio, Genoa, osvaldo, referees, sivori, Team News, Trezeguet, zalayeta

September 23rd, 2009

Genoa-Juventus Nonpreview

By: alessio |

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Apologies for the lack of posts on my hand recently, thankfully Roberto’s been keeping the blog up and running. Work seems to hit in waves at college, and this week has been brutal. Thankfully, after Friday’s exam I am done, off to happy hour (3 for 1 till 9pm…), and enjoying a 3-day weekend courtesy [...]

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September 23rd, 2009

Non-Preview: Genoa v. Juventus, a.k.a. “It’s Focus Time”.

By: roberto |

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Category: Amauri, Buffon, Caceres, Camoranesi, Chiellini, Coaching, Competitions, De Ceglie, Ferrara, Giovinco, Grosso, Grygera, Iaquinta, Juventus, Legrottaglie, Manniger, Marchisio, Marrone, Molinaro, Players, Poulsen, Previews & Reviews, Salihamidzic, Scudetto, Serie A, Team News, Trezeguet, Zebina

September 21st, 2009

Photos and Ferrara’s Take on Livorno

By: roberto |

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As the great coach that he is, Ciro Ferrara was satisfied with the victory against Livorno but still thinks there are various aspects which can be improved.“When it comes to the results we are very satisfied but we know that there are things to improve because we encountered some difficulties. This could also be due [...]

Category: Buffon, Coaching, Competitions, Ferrara, Giovinco, Iaquinta, Juventus, Marchisio, People, Previews & Reviews, Scudetto, Serie A, Team Management, Team News

Tags: Buffon, Coaching, Competitions, Ferrara, Giovinco, Iaquinta, Juventus, Marchisio, People, Previews & Reviews, Scudetto, Serie A, Team Management, Team News

September 18th, 2009

Juventus – Livorno

By: roberto |

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Livorno this weekend at home. Last week they hosted Milan at the Stadio Armando Picchi in Livorno, and a few things come to mind after having watched it. First off, Lucarelli canbe a pain in the ass. That evening in Livorno the 33 year old didn’t disappoint his hometown fans. So he didn’t score and the game [...]