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Can we breathe now?
By: Joe |
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Once again the end of the month signaled another loss for Napoli (August - Cagliari, September - Genoa, October - Fiorentina). The Viola got the deserved victory yesterday when Bobo Vieri, making his first appearance in the starting XI, was in the right place at the right time and put a shot past keeper Genarro [...]
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Where’s my brioschi?
By: Joe | 9 Comments
Years of wallowing against the likes of Modena, Catanzaro and Rimini make this past Saturday all the more thrilling. There’s a very real price to pay following a squad in the lower divisions. The coverage is scanty and more speculative than normal, statistics are hard to come by and television coverage? Not a chance. At [...]
Category: match reviewOpportunity knocked
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…and Napoli didn’t answer.
An opportunity to continue Napoli’s dream start hit a nightmarish speed bump at the Stadio San Paolo yesterday. Roma’s loss to Inter and Palermo’s defeat at Empoli meant a victory would catapult the Azzurri to 3rd place heading into next week’s clash at the San Siro against the Nerazzurri.
All the stars were [...]
Category: match reviewThe Marco Amelia show
By: Joe | 5 Comments
Azzurri backup keeper Marco Amelia has been a lighting rod of sorts throughout his brief career. The Roman keeper came up through the A.S. Roma youth system and as a 19-year old was loaned out to the Amaranto. The following year he made 35 appearances for Livorno in Serie B and his career took off.
Amelia won [...]
Category: match reviewNapoli-Empoli match review
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Napoli drew 0-0 with Empoli in Giornata 4 yesterday with nearly half the fans in the Tuscan stadium there to represent the Azzurri from Napoli. A crowd of just under 12,000 saw a back and forth match at the Stadio Carlo Castellani. The battle of the Azzurri’s drew 5,000 Napoli supporters who made the 500 [...]
Category: match reviewNapoli - Sampdoria match review
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FIFA international breaks can sometimes provide clubs with a fair amount of angst as they fret over their brightest, and usually youngest stars. Will the players return too tired? Will they pick up any knocks preventing them from playing their best when they return to their club? Will training and playing amongst the best in [...]
Category: match reviewThe Reja Zone
By: Joe | 8 Comments
My skills as a prognasticator are only surpassed by my skills to convince professional beach volleyball players to buy me drinks and allow me to spread massage oil on their aching muscles. After a thrilling Coppa Italia match in which a 10-man Napoli went 120 minutes and won on penalty kicks when the socialist republic [...]
Category: match review10-man Napoli come through
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The Napoletano cardiac kids did it again yesterday. Pushed to the brink last night, a 10-man Napoli pulled out a thriller last night in a match that had a little bit of everything. Over the last few years, Napoli has often played its most inspiring football when they’ve been shorthanded; a sure sign of the [...]
Category: match reviewNapoli 0 - Cagliari 2 Giornata 1 review
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Napoli’s return to Serie A felt more like a punch in the gut than a triumphant homecoming. The squad hadn’t lost a match at San Paolo in almost three years (Oct. 31, 2004, 2-1 against Chieti) and with all the talk of Cagliari being relegation candidates this year and the loss of captain David Suazo, [...]
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