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

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:50:00 +0000

Very good read, and I agree with most points, however I find it hard to agree with your hatred of Fabio Capello. You say you still count Juve’s scudetto total as 29 (as do i) and he is the reason for that. Sure he played some boring football, but that boring football is what won us those two scudettos. Some of his transfers were so-so (hello Adrian Mutu, I’m looking at you) but he did bring in some real gems (hello Fabio Cannavaro, I’m looking at you). Still, a great read as always and by pointing out some of the new talent we have in our ranks, especially Giovinco, you have re-instated my faith in our wonderful football club. Juventus FC will ALWAYS be THEE team in Italy, I don’t care how much money Inter have, or how many European cups Milan have. Twenty nine scudettos and nine coppa italias are worth so, so much more.

Forza Juve, Forza Alex Del Piero, and Forzaall our fans around the world who stood by us in our darkest hour, and didn’t jump ship to Milan, Inter or Roma. Bring on 08/09

By: sally

sally — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:57:06 +0000

well what doesnt kill us only makes us stronger.
although like you i agree that our most important heroes stayed after calciopoli – buffon alex nedved camo and trez and though it hurt to see most of the players go they werent exactly juventus legends.
except zambrotta, that really hurt.
i hope he rots in pieces in milan.

By: alessio

alessio — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:08:52 +0000

Right on Gago, I agree 100%. The spirit of the team is what drives us.
Sorry, all we’ve got is the CAF and CF documents in Italian.

By: Gago

Gago — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:30:28 +0000

hey can you mail me the calciopoli documents(but if you have something in english becouse i don’t speak italian).
my mail is gago_petrovski@yahoo.com
again Gago from Skopje, Macedonia

By: Gago

Gago — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:59 +0000

calciopoli changed us. no juventino can say that is happy after that but our heroes showed to the world that you can’t kill the juventus spirit. we were on the bottom(and even lower) and in only 2 years we are back in the CL in the process beating all of inter, milan and roma. and we were playing against the referees, against the public, against everyone. if secco had a clue what he is doing we would have been in the scudetto race last season. but now let’s look to the future.
we have the best goalkeeper in the world.
central defence(chiellini and legrotaglie) was strong last season and now mellberg is here to help. de ceglie is very good and will replace molinaro and grygera and zebina combined can play one more season on the right. having in mind that buffon is behind them we have no reason to wory.
the attack is the strongest in italy(no discution). del piero, trezeguet and iaquinta are all great players and all kave the juventus spirit in them. and now amauri is here. i expect 80 goals in serie A this season.
in the midfield we lack a playmaker. camoranesi is great but has to leave his natural position to play as playmaker. nedved is getting older but giovinco is the best man to take his place. sissoko is great. and zanetti was great as his substitute so i don’t get the perchuase of poulsen, but that is up to ranieri. after all he will take credit for any success and take the fall for any dissapointment.
so with only one more midfielder that will be the creator of the attack we can win everything.
this guys showed everyone that they will never give up and thet they can beat everyone.
FORZA JUVENTUS!!!
BIANCONERO FOR LIFE!!!
GAGO FROM SKOPJE, MACEDONIA!!!

By: Gabriella (ASR)

Gabriella (ASR) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:13:10 +0000

can someone go over to the Roma blog and tell Vin that I am getting the No sencod chance error when trying to comment

thanks

By: alessio

alessio — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:28 +0000

Fact I did not know- Alessio Tacchinardi (who I did last week’s profile on) is tied for being in the 2nd most CL semifinals with 1/2 of Milan, 1 behind Makelele.

By: romabaha

romabaha — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:08:31 +0000

Nice read!
Regardless of his tactics and trasfers, Fabio remains one of the most successful coaches in the world.
I understand your frustration with how he handled some of the Juve legends but your society has other directors on board, that could have prevented that or make amends.

By: Gianfranco

Gianfranco — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:13:40 +0000

At Milan Cappello was blessed with a bunch of attacking players who regardless of his formation were going to attack when you have VanBasten, Gullit, Savicevic, Massaro, and so on your team is bound to score. He also had a bullish backline so it was not a defensively orientated as Juve, because it didnt have to be. In fact Pannucci can owe all his success Cappello and in his early inclusion in those teams.

As for Juve’s failure in CL during his time, I would say it had a bit to do with the competition as well, and by then the Cappello system was found out and a lot of people knew how to work against it. I would have to do some more research to see who Juve played to know more and be able to speak to it better.

By: alessio

alessio — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:37:02 +0000

Calisi, I agree…we already have a crystal midfielder, Marchionni! Van Persie is a decent midfielder but he doesn’t have the tenacity of Nedved. We need someone who works hard and can defend, and RVP doesn’t strike me as either. Marchisio and Giovinco are staying, I’m hoping Marchisio becomes our passer, he has good vision.

Gianfranco, what was he like back in the early 90s? I know about his success with Milan but now how he did it. I think his rigidity in his formation was the reason we miserably failed in the CL during his tenure.