Wesley Sneijder

Today’s UEFA Cham­pi­ons League draw was one that should prove that Serie A is still one of the pre­mier leagues in the world, and that Inter is arguably the world’s best club.  The Ner­az­zurri swept the UEFA indi­vid­ual awards: Goal­keeper of the Year (Julio Cesar), Defender of the Year (Maicon), Mid­fielder of the Year (Wesley […]

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What more could you ask for from the home club? Inter Milan con­vinc­ingly beat what many have called the world’s great­est soc­cer team yes­ter­day with a 3–1 vic­tory over Barcelona.  The match was con­tro­ver­sial from the start, as Barcelona endured a 10 hour bus ride to Milan because the Euro­pean air­space was still mostly closed. Despite what […]

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Serie A’s lone rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the Cham­pi­ons League advanced to the semi-finals with a 2–0 aggre­gate win over a feisty CSKA Moscow club.  Their reward: fac­ing prob­a­bly the best team in the world, a Barcelona club that oblit­er­ated Arse­nal yes­ter­day at Camp Nou. Inter did what it needed to do to advance in the tour­na­ment — play […]

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Lessons Learned from Giornata 21

by Robert on January 27, 2010 · 2 comments

A nice quiet week­end in Serie A.  For­tu­nately, there were no matches of inter­est and no con­tro­versy that came out of the matches.  Noth­ing unusual or inter­est­ing at all. Or not.  In a week­end high­lighted by the top two squads fac­ing off, injuries to star play­ers, and an odd mask cel­e­bra­tion, let’s take a moment to […]

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Sneijder’s Ankle Not Too Bad

by Sam Hiser on September 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Wednes­day, Sept. 9, 2009 — Nether­lands 1: 0 Scot­land today at Ham­p­den Park (here’s the minute-by-minute report). As George Bur­ley said, Scot­land deserved at least some­thing from the match at home in which they threat­ened the wood­work seri­ally. The dif­fi­cult loss ends Scotland’s chance of qual­i­fy­ing for South Africa’s pageant next sum­mer. I saw Wesley […]

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For AC Milan in Saturday’s fabled Derby della Madon­nina, Gen­naro Gattuso’s night­mare came true. If not for Inter’s new-look, new-effect attack, poor Cap­tain Rino would be car­ry­ing all respon­si­bil­ity for the unbal­anced result (AC Milan 0:4 Inter). Inter earned three (and per­haps all four) of their strikes, yet more could not have gone wrong in one […]

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