It is Spring 2014 in the tiny little village of Orio al Serio, located roughly four kilometres from Bergamo. A group of 20 or so kids ranging from ages...
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Remembering Francesco Mancini
Italy is renowned for producing many of the game’s greatest goalkeepers. Those that immediately spring to mind include the 1982 World Cup winning captain Dino Zoff, Inter’s iconic cap...
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Domenico Morfeo: The Maverick
It’s May 31st, 1996 and Italy are playing Spain in the final of the European under 21 championships in Barcelona. The weary players make their way to the centre...
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FIORENTINA’S FORGOTTEN NUMBER 10
It was probably the most tormented and tempestuous summer that Florentine football has ever known. While the rest of the country was anxiously anticipating the start of Italia ’90,...
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Francesco Totti and his only Scudetto triumph
They call him “The King of Rome”. It was 1989, and a fresh faced 13-year-old walked through the front doors of the Trigoria Sports Centre for the very first...
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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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The Brilliance of Dejan Savicevic
When Dejan Savicevic arrived in Italy for the 1992-93 season, Serie A was in its pomp. It boasted some of the best players in the world and without doubt...
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Albinoleffe: The Minnow’s Minnow
Five hundred and seventy nine – that’s the average attendance at Lega Pro side Albinoleffe’s home matches this season. Amazingly, this still keeps them from being bottom of the...
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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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The Anglo-Italian Cup of 1973 featured; Manchester United, Luton Town, Hull City, Crystal Palace, Bari, Fiorentina, Lazio, Verona, Newcastle United, Fulham, Oxford United, Blackpool, Bologna, Como, Roma, and Torino....
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