Archive for November, 2007

Italy’s Unemployed Best: Marcello Lippi and Fabio Capello linked to England Job

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

For those interested (since that seems to be the talk of the moment, in England of course but also abroad), you can check out my latest Soccerlens article below on the possible candidates to succeed Steve McLaren as England manager. I’ve posted the parts concerning Fabio Capello and Marcello Lippi below. My pick is Capello personally, […]


Futsal Euro 2007: the Azzurri Qualify for the Final!

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Remember that UEFA Futsal Championship I was telling you about a week ago? 
The “Euro 2007 of Indoor Soccer” has now reached the playoffs stage, and our own Azzurri team has made it to the tournament final yesterday, by beating Russia in a spectacular and intensity-laden semi-final match. The match ended 2-0 thanks to the goals of […]


Euro 2008 Finals - Draw Seedings

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Yesterday, UEFA revealed the draw seedings for Euro 2008’s final tournament. The 16 qualified teams have been separated into 4 different pots, which will be utilized to determine the 4 groups of the tournament by drawing one team from each pot.
With the two co-host nations (Austria/Switzerland) already occupying positions A1 and B1 in the draw, Pot 1 […]


ONMS Latest: Juventus Supporters forbidden from Milan-Juve

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

The ‘National Observatory of Sport Competitions’ (Osservatorio Nazionale sulle Manifestazioni Sportive), that little body that decides which of the Italian league matches are considered ‘at risk’, has just forbidden stadium access to supporter groups of 5 Serie A teams travelling for away games. The matches in question concern matchday 14 of Italian league top fligh, […]


Top 5 Cost-Effective Teams of Serie A (Week 12)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Which is the most cost-effective team in Serie A? That is, who spends the least amount of money per point obtained? Here’s an idea that came straight from the great source of footy information that is TheOffside.com.
When he’s not passionately writing about the Giallorossi or the Italian national team, RomaChris (author of the Roma blog […]