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August 11th, 2008

Previews: Half-assed Preview of Juventus-Artmedia and Squad Updates

By: alessio | Comments 72 Comments

We’re back, ladies and gentlemen. After two years of exile, Juventus FC officially re-enters the Champion’s League in the 3rd-round qualifiers. Win this two-legged tie and we’re into the lucrative group stages. Our opponent this year is FC Artmedia Petržalka, who won the Slovak league last year. In terms of Uefa co-efficients, they are below [...]



August 6th, 2008

Liveblog: Manchester United v. Juventus Pre-season Friendly

By: alessio | Comments 72 Comments

So, I was going to be at the beach all day today, but a storm decided to roll in this morning. End result? I’m sitting inside the beachhouse watching the rain come down, pretty cool stuff. But the upside is I’ll be watching this glorious friendly as well, and I figured, if I’m watching, why [...]

July 31st, 2008

Juventus Legends: Angelo Peruzzi

By: alessio | Comments 77 Comments

La Vecchia Signora has always been blessed with good keepers, in the last 25 years or so, you can count the number of starting keepers on one hand. Tacconi, Peruzzi, Van Der Sar, and Buffon. They seem to stretch out by decade, as Tacconi was our starting keeper for most of the 80s, before being [...]

July 21st, 2008

Capello Sucks: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Calciopoli

By: alessio | Comments 33 Comments

This is kind of another reflection on Juventus history, but of a slightly different kind.
Like all Juventini, two years ago I went from Nirvana to Hell in a matter of a month. In the greatest football moment I’ve ever witnessed, the Azzurri triumphed in Berlin, winning the first major silverware I’ve been around for. [...]

July 17th, 2008

Juventus Legends: Alessio Tacchinardi

By: alessio | Comments 32 Comments

About two weeks ago I did a profile on former Juventus captain Antonio Conte and with Juve’s mercato pretty much wrapped up, I figured to do another. This is on a personal favorite of mine, in fact, my namesake on the Offside. Many of you know my real name is Aaron. Where does Alessio come [...]



July 14th, 2008

It’s Official: Christian Poulsen is Black-and-White

By: alessio | Comments 74 Comments

Yes it sucks, but I’m not going to college for graphic design, so nyaaaaaah.

Christian Poulsen arrived at Juve’s headquarters this afternoon to officially sign his contract, ending a few weeks of speculation.

July 9th, 2008

David Trezeguet e’ tutto bianconero

By: alessio | Comments 21 Comments

Adieu, David.

“Domenech is staying and I am quitting the national side,”

July 7th, 2008

Juventus Legends: Antonio Conte

By: alessio | Comments 21 Comments

We have such legends playing for us now that sometimes we forget some of the older ones. The irony is not lost on me that when I was growing up and started following La Vecchia Signora in the late 90s we had the best midfield in the world, and now are struggling to fill it. There was Zinedine Zidane, Edgar Davids, my personal favorite Tacchinardi, Di Livio, Deschamps, and of course Antonio Conte. These were the legendary midfielders who led us to 3 consecutive Champion’s League finals in one of our glory eras. It seems that Del Piero has been “il Capitano” for us forever, but he was not our captain during this glory era, taking over in 2001 after recovering from his knee injury. That honor went to Antonio Conte.

June 30th, 2008

Dario Knezevic e’ Bianconero

By: alessio | Comments 71 Comments

When speaking of the obligatory YouTube comp, even for defenders it is mostly goals, be it bullshit or not. Luckily, there is one for Dario Knezevic that primarily shows off his defensive skills. I don’t know too much about him, but this vid helps to inform us on our new defender. He probably won’t see [...]

June 26th, 2008

This Stanks; Midfield Midmarket Musings

By: alessio | Comments 39 Comments

I know, I know, it’s horrible. But when you’ve got a name like Stankovic….it just lends itself to puns like that. I’d like to take credit for it, but it was the title of a blog posting after one of Dejan’s shitty games this season. Little did I know I’d be ripping him off 6 [...]






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