Goals from Diego Milito (2) and Rodrigo Palacio helped Inter Milan end the longest active unbeaten streak in world soccer by beating Juventus, 3-1, at the JuventusStadium on Saturday. Juve’s 49-game unbeaten run began on May 15, 2011. The loss to Inter was the Italian champion’s first in the Juventus Stadium, which it opened in […]
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Chandler, Johnson and Kljestan assist on victories
[AMERICANS ABROAD] U.S. internationals Timmy Chandler (Nuremberg), FabianJohnson (Hoffenheim)and Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht) all had assists in wins, while Riley O’Neill scored in Finnish club MyPa’s 2-1 winover FC Lahti. Michael Bradley returned to the starting lineup in place of the injured Daniele De Rossi in Roma’s 4-1win over Palermo. On the other hand, Clint Dempsey […]
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Sampdoria: 'Referees are Killing Soccer'
Referees in Italy’s Serie A have come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks for allegedly favoring bigger clubs. On Wednesday, following his team’s 3-2 loss to Inter at the San Siro,Sampdoria vice president Edoardo Garrone fumed that Italian refs are “killing soccer.” Garrone told Il Secolo XIX: “This is the fourth red cardand the fifth […]
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Juve Wins as 'Soccer Dies' and Calciopoli Reappears
Juventus beat Catania 1-0 in extremely controversial circumstances on Sunday, prompting Catania President Antonio Pulvirenti to declare: “Today we witnessed the death of soccer,”as he said that a goal scored by Catania in the first half “was disallowed by the Juventus bench,” not the referees, for offside. Initially, referee AndreaGervasoni had signaled a goal when […]
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Strong Class of Candidates for 2012 Golden Boy
The list of candidates for Europe’s Golden Boy award, given to the best European player under the age of 21, was released on Monday. Some already well-known players are on this year’slist of 39 contenders, including: Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid), Coutinho (Inter), Julian Draxler (Schalke 04), Stephan El Shaarawy(AC Milan), Christian Eriksen (Ajax), Isco (Malaga), […]
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Onyewu Content to Wait at Malaga
In an interview with Fox Sports, U.S. international Oguchi Onyewu reveals that he is settling in well to his new life at Malaga, in Spain’s La Liga. The 30-year-old says theteam is great, the surroundings are beautiful, but perhaps the only thing missing right now is a little game time. Since arriving at the club […]
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Malaga Owner Promises to Invest Again
Qatari Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nassar Al-Thani attended Malaga’s 1-0 win at home over AC Milan in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday — his first game of the year — anddeclared that he would once again invest money in the club, which he had seemingly abandoned over the summer. “We are going to invest: there […]
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Guardiola Interested in Bayern Job
Former Bayern Munich and Italy striker Luca Toni has revealed that Pep Guardiola, who is currently on a sabbatical, might be interested in taking the reigns at theAllianz Arena one day. In an interview with Bild am Sonntag, Toni said the former Barcelona coach asked him about the Bavarian giant, and Toni in turn has […]
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Messi and Pogba feature in La Liga & Serie A thrillers
[VIDEO PICKS: Golazos] Juventus scores twice late to win a first-place battle with Napoli, plus all nine goals from Barcelona at Deportivo, an early candidatefor game of the year in La Liga, in two altogether different thrillers from Saturday night. … A rugged stalemate, between undefeated teams in Turin, was defined by seven yellow cards, […]
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Nesta: MLS Players Like 'Animals'
Montreal Impact defender Alessandro Nesta, speaking to an Italian media company, has described players in Major League Soccer as “animals” on the pitch. The formerLazio and Milan defender, who is now 36, joined the MLS club this summer. “There is a very Italian mentality here, the level is very high physically and they are real‘animals’ […]