Walking down via Filadelfia, in the Lingotto district of Turin, eventually leads to the Stadio Olimpico, home of Torino FC. Along the way is a building site in a...
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Stefano Tacconi: Underrated but not forgotten
Looking back over the 118 year history of Juventus, Italian football’s grand Old Lady has had more than her fair share of leading men. Alessandro Del Piero recently left...
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Centro Storico Lebowski and their fight against Calcio Moderno
If the hotel receptionist thought it was strange that six English people wanted to call a taxi to the Campo Sportivo San Donnino on the outskirts of Florence, it...
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Calcio Storico Fiorentino
Calcio – the Italian word for football – is markedly different to the words used in other languages to describe the sport. Most of these derive from the word...
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An Undying love affair – Argentines and Serie A (V): Diego Milito and Inter’s Treble Winners
Terranova da Sibari is a small commune of around 5,000 inhabitants in the Calabria region of Southern Italy. In the 1950s, many Terranovesi chose to emigrate to Argentina, looking...
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An Undying Love Affair – Argentines and Serie A (IV): Gabriel Omar Batistuta
By the 1990s, the loophole that allowed footballers to play for more than one country had long since been closed. However not since the Oriundi of 1934 had Argentinians been so...
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There has always been something romantic about seeing a footballer playing the beautiful game, seemingly on another planet, but still relating to the common individual as the bloke you...
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Argentinians and Serie A (Part II): Omar Sívori – leading the ‘Trio of Death’
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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Remembering Fiorentina’s last European semi-final
Stadio Artemio Franchi, 1st May 2008. Almost 40,000 fans collectively held their breath as Rangers’ striker Nacho Novo stepped up to take his penalty in the semi-final of the...
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What’s gone wrong at Brescia?
Brescia is situated at the foot of the Alps in the Lombardy region, and has had a football team representing the city since 1911. Brescia Calcio enjoyed its most...
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