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’ […]
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Calciopoli Referees Fined $5.25 Million
An Italian court has ordered the referees involved in the game-fixing scandal that marred the 2005-2006 Serie A season—also known as “Calciopoli”—to pay $5.25million in damages to the Italian Soccer Federation, the Associated Press reports. Paolo Bergamo, who selected the officials for each match, receiveda $1.31 million fine, the heaviest individual fine, while colleague Pierluigi Pairetto […]
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Juve-Napoli Talk Annoys Prandelli
Italy coach Cesare Prandelli reacted angrily to questions from the Italian press about the upcoming clash this weekend between Juventus and Napoli, Serie A’s first and secondplace clubs, respectively. Prandelli snapped at journalists who wanted to discuss that match rather than focus on Italy’s World Cup qualifier against Denmark at the San Siro in Milan […]
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Bradley a More Complete Player, Following Roma Move
USA international Michael Bradley, fresh from scoring his first Serie A goal for AS Roma, says that playing in Italy has made him a more “complete” player.“Fighting my way onto a big club like Roma, I can prove to everybody that I can play at the highest level,” he tells the Miami Herald. “Every week, […]