For a club that has been out of the Italian top flight since 2015, it would be tough to identify the right names to fill a five-a-side team. But...
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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 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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Massimiliano Allegri – the end of an error?
Michele Tossani reflects on the end of Massimiliano Allegri's second stint as Juventus coach following his dismissal in the aftermath of his fifth Coppa Italia victory and considers the...
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Torino’s Hart-stopper hangs up his gloves
As the English keeper announces his retirement from the game, the Gentleman Ultra's Michele Tossini considers the mixed legacy of UK imports to Torino....
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One night in November
Italian journalist and match analyst Michele Tossani relives a European night to remember and one of the most iconic goals of the 1980s....
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Anselmo Robbiati: Fiorentina’s cult-hero supersub
Every season since 1982/83, the National Basketball Association releases its Sixth Man of the Year Award. This award is given to the best performing player coming off the bench...
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When Calcio Ruled the World: Andreas Möller – Juve’s overlooked playmaker
In 1992, Simply Red sang Stars, while German Eurodance group, Snap! rose to prominence when they released the instant classic Rhythm is a dancer. They became definitive records of...
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Graeme Souness’s 98-day disaster as Torino coach
“Graeme Souness, not Ferguson, knocked Liverpool off the top,” former Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher once claimed. The defender was of course was responding to the famous comment made by...
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Goals & wins in Licata: The birth of Zemanlandia
“If you score 90 goals then it shouldn’t really worry you how many are conceded.” Zdenek Zeman Born in Prague in 1947, a former student-athlete in ice hockey, volleyball,...
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