No football team can rely on one genius alone to achieve greatness. Perhaps nowhere in Italian football history […]
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If you were a Lazio fan walking to the Stadio Olimpico in the 1990s, Diego Fuser would have […]
There was no ‘Nessun Dorma’ playing now. The Stadio Olimpico was full to the rafters but produced only […]
Modern Roman culture is a potent cocktail of the contemporary and the ancient. Arguably, it is at its […]
When a player has the nickname ‘Rizzi-gol’, one would expect that his career would be littered with Capocannoniere […]
When Gazzetta Dello Sport interviewed Angelo Peruzzi in 2015 he was fishing in Blera, Lazio. This small town […]
Giuseppe “Beppe” Signori was one of the most complete and ruthless forwards of his era. His name is […]
If you frequented Roma’s Curva Sud in Serie A’s golden age of the late 1980s and early 1990s, […]
“With hindsight, I think I should never have left Milan because I could have given more to the […]
Zvonimir Boban was one of the most talented players to play for Milan in the 1990s, an impressive […]
He was ‘The Uncle’ from seventeen, the boy who marked Karl-Heinz Rummenigge out of a World Cup final, […]
Thierry Henry (aged 24), Arsenal, 24 Goals, English Premier League Champions Raul (aged 24) Real Madrid, 24 Goals, […]
It is hard to name many players who have sandwiched a quick jaunt at Italian club Brescia, between […]
In the 1997-98 season Oliver Bierhoff became capocannoniere in Serie A. An under-rated forward playing for an unfashionable team made […]
Think of a time before Totti was having an impact and imagine Roma? It feels nearly impossible as […]
