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1st half review: Gli portieri
By: Joe |
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Since Napoli won’t be back on the training ground until January 2nd and the transfer window won’t open until the 4th, I thought it might be a good time to review the first half of the Napoli’s 2007Serie A campaign. We’ll start our review with a look at Napoli’s keepers(portieri).
#1 Genaro Iezzo born June 8, [...]
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Napoli-Torino review
By: Joe | No Comments
The following match report was written by David D’Antonio from ClubNapoli.it. You can get email updates of Napoli news in English by subscribing to their Yahoo! group at http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/cni-english/.
Napoli goes into the Christmas break on the back of an exciting but very controversial match against Torino at home. Napoli conceded a penalty that never was [...]
Category: match reviewNapoli-Torino
By: Joe | 6 Comments
The good sister of Turin come to the Stadio San Paolo in the closing match before the winter break. Torino coach, Walter Novellino, will have to watch from the stands after getting ejected from last week’s match against Roma. The Italian draw specialists have had a disappointing
campaign thus far as they sit two points away [...]
Category: match previewsWe’ll miss you
By: Joe | 10 Comments
Tifosi: O Calaiò, Calaiò, wherefore art thou Calaiò?
Deny thy bench and refuse thy Reja;
Or if thou wilt not, be gone in January
You will be, and we’ll no longer love our arciere.
Calaiò: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? Have I not performed well? Have the fans turned against me? Please, can I [...]
Category: Team NewsNapoli-Siena
By: Joe | 5 Comments
Napoli play the penultimate Serie A match of the year on Sunday as they head north to take on a Siena side who’s looking to stave off relegation. The bianconeri have been no higher than 15th in the table all season and that was after the first week (a 2-1 home loss to Sampdoria).
Siena chairman [...]
Category: Team NewsBlinded by the light
By: Joe | 4 Comments
Sunday’s victory over Parma helped to erase the memory in Bergamo last week and fans celebrated the second straight home clean sheet by getting the club into more hot water. There were no racist banners unfurled, no yogurt bottles tossed out onto the pitch and no Sky Sports announcers hit with debris from the crowd. [...]
Category: Team NewsNapoli-Parma (or let’s get that taste out of our mouths, shall we?)
By: Joe | 1 Comment
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That is the number of matches in Serie A. On paper and during the pre-season, it sure sounds like an eternity. Plenty of time to turn things around and work through the slumps, right? I mean if you hit a rough patch, there’s always a game next week to reverse your fortunes and right the [...]
Category: match previewsTu, ca nun chiagne news
By: Joe | 8 Comments
I just can’t bring myself to write about the disaster in Bergamo. I’m heartened by the assumption that the squad can’t play any worse and better days are ahead. Let it not say my cappuccino is half empty. At least coach Edy Reja stepped up and took responsibility for the disaster.
* Keeper Genarro Iezzo is unsettled [...]
Category: Team NewsSeperating the wheat from the chaff
By: Joe | 5 Comments
Avoiding the drop is always the first priority for a newly promoted side. It’s obvious Napoli’s expectations are a little bit higher. The side is looking to be in the Champions League in three years and this year’s objective is to establish an equal footing with Serie A’s “second tier” squads: Sampdoria, Palermo, Udinese and, [...]
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