I have to be honest, Napoli are my team. There’s something about the outsider, underdog nature of the club and the city that has always appealed to me. They...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a lineup for … Atalanta
The queen of the provincial clubs was crowned Europa League winners last season. Yet Atalanta have rarely been mentioned alongside the established Italian football royalty. The Bergamo side had...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a lineup for … Lazio
The Gentleman Ultra continues its popular series of nostalgic five-a-side teams. This time it's Federico Farcomeni with his pick from the greatest players to ever wear the Lazio shirt....
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a lineup for … Genoa
It is de rigueur to ignore the heroes of the past to focus on the stars of the present when selecting any all-time greats team. The skewed formula cannot be applied...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… Udinese
For a club that have never won a Serie A title, picking a five a side team made up of ex-Le Zebrette players proved monumentally difficult. Nestled in north...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… Lecce
Picking five players for a rational Lecce side should be easy, on paper. That is because giallorossi are a club that firstly stood in Serie A in 1985-86. The...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for…AC Milan
You often hear the phrase ‘nice problem to have’ being used when it comes to a manager with a selection headache due to having a lot of players. The...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a line-up for … Pisa
Picking a five-a-side team for a side whose glory days are 30-years away could look like a mere rhetorical exercise. By the way, we are still talking about a...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… Sampdoria
All my Sampdoria five-side-team played together in the club’s most successful period from 1984-1994. It would have been easy to pick an ultra-attacking side with four forwards, yet in...
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Nostalgic Serie A 5-a-side teams: picking a line-up for… AS Roma
Here we go; the almost impossible task of picking an AS Roma five-a-side team and keeping most people happy! Roma, like many Italian sides, are a club with a...
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