In 1957, Juventus opened their cheque book and signed Argentinian inside forward Omar Sívori for a world record transfer fee, remunerating River Plate with a staggering ten million pesos...
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Filippo Savi: For the love of Calcio
It’s the final day of the 2014-15 season in the Eccellenza Emilia-Romagna Girone A. In front of a modest crowd, the players of tiny Lentigione Calcio celebrate their promotion...
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The Rise of Frosinone
With another Serie A season done and dusted, it is arrivederci to some of Italian football’s biggest names. Parma, who lit up the world of Calcio in the 1990s, bid farewell...
Read MoreAn Undying love affair: Argentinians and Serie A (Part I): The Oriundi and the 1934 World Cup
Ask any football fan to name an Argentinian that has plied his trade in Serie A and Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta and Javier Zanetti immediately spring to mind. Those...
Read MoreGianluigi Lentini: a story of Magic and tragedy
Fans of Italian football in the early 1990s will remember the name. After Italia 90 when British fans tuned into watch James Richardson’s Football Italia, they were hoping just...
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Foggia after Zemanlandia
The manager that made a club and the club that made the manager. Foggia and Zdenek Zeman will forever go hand in hand, because it was in this southern...
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Serie A Classic: When Ronaldo met Baggio
Ronaldo had become the world’s most expensive player when he signed for Inter from Barcelona and Roberto Baggio was trying to resurrect his career at Bologna. When they met...
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The 1985 Scudetto: A Season With Osvaldo Bagnoli’s Verona
May 12, 1985. It’s a date indelibly marked in the minds of all Hellas Verona fans. The tactical nous of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli coupled with the stewardship of president...
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Torino, Mondonico and the 1992 UEFA Cup
The remarkable story of Torino and their journey to the UEFA cup final of 1991/92 surprisingly begins in Serie B. Il Toro started the 1989/90 season in Italy’s second...
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The Derby del Veneto: Verona vs. Vicenza, one of Italy’s forgotten rivalries
On a Friday night back in April, Davide Di Gennaro calmly dispatched a 92nd minute penalty to earn Vicenza a 1-0 victory away to Cittadella. The travelling Vicentini erupted....
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