Silvio Berlusconi’s current and former loves go head-to-head on Saturday when Monza hosts AC Milan looking to continue its thrilling debut Serie A season by taking another big scalp. The only Italian top-flight team yet to lose in 2023, Monza welcomes the reigning champion with an eight-match unbeaten record to protect and the potential to […]
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Serie A: Juve's off-field battles heat up as rival Fiorentina comes to town
Juventus hosts Fiorentina in one of Italian soccer’s most enduring and fiery rivalries on Sunday, but once again the focus is on the off-field matters looming over their troubled campaign. Juve is back in the top half of the Serie A table after Tuesday’s 3-0 cruise past Salernitana, boosted by star striker Dusan Vlahovic putting […]
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Derby danger for champion AC Milan as Napoli 'runs away with it'
Graphic Content AC Milan’s crisis threatens to deepen as last year’s Italian champion heads into Sunday’s game against bitter city rival Inter, miles off the Serie A title pace and in a battle to reach next year’s Champions League. A full 15 points behind runaway league leaders Napoli and outside Italy’s top four, Milan is […]
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Serie A title fever in Naples: 'Only we can lose it now'
Serie A title fever is sweeping Naples as the soccer-mad city hopes that rampant Napoli will end more than three decades of waiting to be crowned kings of Italy. Sunday night’s 2-1 win over Roma and the sudden collapse of defending champion AC Milan’s title defense has allowed Napoli to extend its lead at the […]
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'Things aren't working': Milan's title defense crumbling as Napoli hosts rivals Roma
After 86 minutes of its last Serie A home match, AC Milan’s title defense was very much alive, two goals ahead of Roma and set to maintain the five-point gap separating the champion and league leader Napoli. Less than three weeks later, Milan’s hope of retaining the Scudetto is hanging by a thread after a […]
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Serie A: Napoli resumes title charge at Salernitana where sacked coach Davide Nicola gets second chance
Napoli will be hoping to bounce back from an unlikely midweek Italian Cup exit when it makes a short trip on Saturday to Salernitana, which sacked and then brought back its manager within the space of two days. Runaway league leader thanks to its whirlwind, five-goal destruction of Juventus on Friday, Napoli was then dumped […]
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Napoli showdown puts Juve's title credentials under microscope
Juventus’ unexpected entry into the Serie A title discussion will undergo its toughest test yet on Friday when the league’s form team travels to runaway leaders Napoli. Seven points back in second, Juve has bounced back from an atrocious start to the campaign to emerge as one of the two leading candidates to stop Napoli’s […]
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Watch: Ferran Torres shine as Spain ends Italy's big streak
The Azzurri’s world record 37-game unbeaten run ended with a 2-1 loss to Spain in the UEFA Nations League semifinal on Thursday. Italy, which earlier this year lifted the postponed Euro 2020 title after beating Spain in the semis on a PK tiebreaker, fell victim to two strikes by 21-year-old Ferran Torres, who now has […]
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Crazy for Football: a documentary about a team with a difference
A few years ago, psychiatric patients from all over Italy showed up in Rome to try out for a team that would head to Osaka for an international five-a-side tournament. A documentary about the players and the coaches who lead them, Crazy For Football, was released in Italy in 2016, and was only recently added […]
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Watch: A soccer victory parade like no other
Venezia FC took to the gondolas to celebrate its return to Serie A after 19 years — more spectacular than the usual bus ride parade as these Venice scenes reveal.