George Young scours Italian football’s lower leagues so you don’t have to! At Levico Terme on the shores of Lake Terme he discovered another hidden gem of the Italian game....
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Verbania Calcio: A hidden gem of Italy’s lower leagues
George Young scours football's lower leagues so you don't have to! At Verbania Calcio on the shores of Lake Maggiore he uncovered a hidden gem of the Italian game....
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Roberto Baggio’s retirement 20 years later: the greatness, the end of a golden age, and no more Sundays
Roberto Baggio retired 20 years ago, and as Emmet Gates writes, Sundays haven't really been the same since....
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The Gentleman Ultra Salutes Riva
Rich Hall leads The Gentleman Ultra's tributes to a genuine Italian legend, Luigi "Gigi" Riva...
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The 10 greatest Italian players snubbed by the Azzuri
This is a collection of players whose talent, for one reason or another, was never fully recognised by the Italian national team. Careers cut short by injury, illness or...
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How to Spend 48 Hours in Milan – with the Gentleman Ultra
The Gentleman Ultra’s Mark Gordon spent 48 hours in Milan with the sole purpose of seeing as much football as possible. He squeezed in three games in three different...
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Football Manager 2024: why starting in the Italian lower leagues could be your route to success
Football Manager 2024: why starting in theItalian lower leagues might be your route to success...
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From Braveheart to the Bel Paese: Scots in Italy
From Verona in Italy, Richard Hough's “Notes from Verona”, charts the highs and lows of following his local team. In this second monthly column he remembers the handful...
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Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a lineup for … Napoli
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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