Archive for the ‘Serie A’ Category

Sunday Soccer Jones? Dial Up Sampdoria…

Update: Sampdoria fell to Napoli, 1-0….no dazzlement from Cassano unfortunately.
With England is the midst of a winter wonderland and no EPL games to quench your Sunday viewing, fire up your ESPN360.com and check out Italian striker Antonio Cassano.
Cassano is a flat out technician in his striker role for Sampdoria and just a real pleasure to [...]

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Barca-Inter With A Lyon-Fiorentina Finish

And thats it Liverpool playing in the second tier Euro competition. Liverpool had their chances. Last minute shoddy defending in their last game against Lyon sealed their fate…Their defense has been atrocious all season…i said it in August and unfortunately i was right…Oh well…Now they can concentrate on the league…oh wait they have been…UGH
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Globe Trotting: Reds vs. Red Devils and more

….and we’re back on track with our weekend preview pieces. Unfortunately, our Gooch Watch has been suspended indefinitely….and actually now longer than we thought, putting his World Cup campaign in jeopardy.
While TSG has conceded that we have some depth here (Marshall, Goodson, even Parkhurst and Spector in a pinch though not Califf please), losing Gooch [...]

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30 Days, 30 Questions for the USMNT

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10/7 Update: See the answers below to TSG’s 30 Days, 30 Questions for the USMNT. All questions were originally asked on September 11th when the article was published.
The members of the USMNT are off to their respective corners of [...]

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There is a rivalry going on right now….

I have to be honest. I’m like a kid in a candy store this morning.
It’s an overcast dawn here in SF (nothing new really); justification to stay in side.
Man U and Man City are playing…..on different channels! I am pressing the “last” button on my remote more than if the Superbowl and World Series were [...]

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Another look at an American in Italy

Not since Alexi Lalas rushed back from a relegation match near Venice in 1994 to play for the U.S. near the city of Angels World Cup game, has an American defender made quite a stunning news splash as the Gooch, Oguchi Onyewu, did this past week.
Yes, we’re late to the news and commentary here, but for those that [...]

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