Napoli

Wow, that’s all I can say see­ing some of the trans­fers that have gone through in the past few days. While there aren’t too many “big” names which moved around, there’s are cer­tainly some inter­est­ing, young and skil­ful play­ers which are going to be wear­ing new jer­seys this sea­son. Let’s see some of the signings […]

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Five things to note from Serie A this weekend

by Niccolo Conte on August 31, 2010 · 1 comment

The Serie A has begun, a nos­tal­gic set of games which begin to show how teams will play, and what they’ll get out of this new cam­paign. After every week­end of matches, I’ll be pub­lish­ing five things to note from the Serie A matches this week­end, whether it be a team in form, a player […]

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In 2005–2006, Napoli was look­ing to escape dire finances and Serie C1.  In 2010–2011, Napoli can cred­i­bly claim that it is com­pet­ing for a Cham­pi­ons League berth.  The Partenopei led by their pres­i­dent Aure­lio De Lau­ren­tiis have been slowly built up and well man­aged to the point where last sea­son they qual­i­fied for their their […]

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Look­ing back on our 2010–2011 Serie A pre­view to this point, it is inter­est­ing to see the num­ber of teams that have failed to actively work the trans­fer mar­ket for improve­ments to their clubs, even though they are in dan­ger of fin­ish­ing at the bot­tom of the table.  Whether due to money or man­age­ment, some […]

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Ear­lier today, UEFA unveiled its pair­ings for both the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League play-off rounds and the UEFA Europa League play-off draw.  For Cham­pi­ons League par­tic­i­pant Sam­p­do­ria, they will take on Bun­desliga club SV Werder Bre­men on August 18 (away) and August 24 (home).  The Werder are the 2009 UEFA Cup runners-up, los­ing 2–1 to Shakhtar […]

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I always find sum­mer friend­lies inter­est­ing, you get to see how new play­ers inter­act with their new team­mates as you get a sneak peak to the next sea­son. The first “big” friendly was played out recently between Juven­tus and Ham­burg, all of the other friend­lies are against teams rep­re­sent­ing regions with the score often ending […]

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Of the many rea­sons Italy was said to have flopped so spec­tac­u­larly in the World Cup, one was the lack of friend­lies prior to the actual tour­na­ment.  Those that were played, like the Mex­ico loss, showed the defi­cien­cies in the club but their rar­ity failed to pro­vide an oppor­tu­nity to rec­tify those defi­cien­cies.  In the […]

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