http://napoli.theoffside.com News from Napoli Italian football team Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After two consecutive road games and an international break, Napoli will return to the San Paolo for the first time in quite a while. The opponents are a Lazio team currently in 16th place in the table. Napoli has good news on the injury front, as the only ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/napoli-vs-lazio-finally-a-home-game.html A number of these posts are going up on various offside blogs, so with a quiet weekend for club football I thought I'd create my own team of the decade. This activity might be a lot better if people waited a year for the next World Cup and used ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/best-20-players-of-the-last-decade.html I didn't see Napoli's scoreless draw with Catania, but from watching the highlights it didn't look all that bad. True, Catania are second from bottom, but it's the nature of Serie A that almost every game is difficult in some way, and even the worst Serie A teams can ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/quagliarella-slumps-bigon-speaks.html Back on the road, which during the end of Reja's and [all of] Donadoni's reign, was a worrisome venture. Now there is a certain air of expectation surrounding the game, one of optimism and victory. The words spoken by Mazzarri say it all: “It's the ideal week to lose ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/old-foes-new-horizons.html Napoli's 3-2 victory in Torino last Saturday was the club's first victory away to Juventus in 21 years. This alone is reason for celebration, but if you look the entire week it might be the best week of Napoli calcio since the team qualified for the UEFA Cup in ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/historical-context-and-mercato-rumours.html My apologies for the delay. With course scheduling taking place, the past couple of days have been about as frantic as Juventus' back four on Saturday. So while a lot of the hype has died down from our epic battle at the Olimpico, I'd like to recap a ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/the-story-so-far.html That's what they're all calling us now. No Just kidding, I don't know a single Napoli fan that lives near my desolate town, but if there were maybe that's what they'd be saying? I don't know about everyone else but I'm still on a high from the Milan ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/the-comeback-kids.html For the record, Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis is not a vampire. But whenever I see his cold, unmoving face, the image of him ripping apart his players' flesh and drinking their blood flashes across my mind. Sorry for the gruesome thoughts but I just had to do ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/interview-with-the-vampire.html Napoli 2 AC Milan 2 I've never studied Latin but the above title roughly translates as "to make out of nothing" which is exactly what Napoli did against Milan. In the 89th minute Napoli had nothing, and despite some postive play they were going to be deserved losers on the ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/facere-ex-nihilo.html A very special spectator will be at the San Paolo Wednesday night as Napoli host Milan in a battle of two teams who are in the process of finding their top form. Nazionale boss Marcello Lippi will have an eye on a number of players, but most importantly Milan's ... http://napoli.theoffside.com/team-news/welcome-mr-lippi.html