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July 31st, 2009

Welcome Erwin-’Jimmy’-'The Rocket’/ ‘Need a New Nickname’-Hoffer

By: Christopher | Comments 76 Comments

What’s the cure for nagging transfer rumors of over rated or over aged strikers joining our revolution? Erwin Hoffer of course. Duh, you mean you didn’t see it coming? De La must have just seen Jack Nicholson playing the hard knock US Teamsters union boss James R. ‘Jimmy’ Hoffa in the 1992 [...]

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July 30th, 2009

Lega Calcio did not dissapoint

By: Christopher | Comments 11 Comments

Yes, anxiousness for the start of Serie A is starting to build- escaping the craziness of summer happenings to move on to reality. By the looks of it, we will have to get off to quite the blast off in terms of form. Thankfully Marino planned ahead for this early challenge in [...]

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July 24th, 2009

Army of Darkness Rising…

By: Christopher | Comments 38 Comments

(Yeah Uncle Dino you get some love too, Army of Darkness rules)
Amid our preseason friendlies (which I ditched work to attempt to stream but ended up not finding one regardless) there are some conclusions to draw, even though I don’t believe you can draw conclusions from preseason friendlies. And they are: Lavezzi, sit down [...]

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July 10th, 2009

New Tat for a New Season

By: Christopher | Comments 77 Comments

(Disclaimer: this is less of an informative post than a ‘lets start getting pumped up’ post)
STEP 1) Click play (#1 pump up song of random dude on youtubes “Top 10 Pump Up Songs 2009″)

(good chance this song will pop up in future posts during the season…)
STEP 2) Cigarini Highlights (while above [...]

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July 7th, 2009

State of the.. Serie A

By: Christopher | Comments 21 Comments

At Alex’s suggestion (thanks), I’m going to go over some general football thoughts as a more in depth ‘get to know the new guy.’ I’ll try to keep it brief:
Serie A
The coming years of Serie A should be really interesting– especially in terms of finance. The split with Serie B is [...]

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July 4th, 2009

Some Transfer Stuff (catchy title right?)

By: Christopher | Comments 13 Comments

Finally found a reason why there are so many SudaAmericani seeking refuge with us (no more ‘following Maradona’ excuses): Some hardcore Santa Fe fans recently threatened to kill the Colombian coach if they did not include their centerback Najera in the squad.

http://football.uk.reuters.com/world/news/LT469984.php
“Come detto prima, la rosa del Napoli รจ composta da giocatori forti e [...]

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July 2nd, 2009

Hey everyone

By: Christopher | Comments 14 Comments

First post at this Napoli blog so I’m looking forward to getting to know all you guys (and gals?) ahead of what is sure to be an interesting season given the nature of this summer mercato so far. Before we get down to footballing business (and I can’t wait to do so) I thought [...]

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