Mario Balotelli will miss Italy’s World Cup™ qualifier with Armenia tonight after failing to recover from the flu, the FIGC announced on their official website this morning. Balotelli, who missed his side’s opening two Group B encounters due to laser eye surgery during the last international break, was set to lead the line at the […]
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The pressure is on Italy to perform in their World Cup qualifier away to Armenia, coach Cesare Prandelli suggested Thursday on the eve of the Group B tie in Yerevan. “I am waiting to see an Italy side alive to the fact that the stakes are high,” said Prandelli. “We have to play at a high rhythm against Armenia […]
Rumours are surfacing that former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola is in talks with AC Milan about replacing current manager Massimiliano Allegri. Guardiola is living in New York during his one year sabbatical from football. He of course was brilliant at Barcelona where he won three La Liga titles and two European Cups in four seasons. […]
A new study from Sportingintelligence shows that the Juventus shirt has been the most popular Serie A shirt worldwide over the last five years. Worldwide there were 480,000 Juventus shirts sold a year compared to 425,000 for Inter and 350,000 for AC Milan. These figures do not include counterfeit merchandise. Overall, only three clubs are selling […]
I was really surprised to read that Juventus are out of the Stevan Jovetic sweepstakes. Juventus chased Jovetic all summer, and I expected then to go back to Fiorentina with a new bid in January. But Bianconeri director Giuseppe Marotta says that the champions are no longer interested in the striker. “We spoke with Fiorentina president [Mario] Cognini […]
Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is confident that Juve can win back-to-back titles this season, although he is still wary of the threats posed by their title rivals. “The signs of the first seven races say that our growth continues, my Juventus is the strongest team,” he said. “And if Napoli then top go to win […]
Juventus have not lost in their last 46 league matches, and they could break AC Milan’s seemingly unbreakable record of 59 matches unbeaten against Parma in January. Can they break the Rossoneri’s record? The run by Antonio Conte’ side is remarkable. From the last match of the 2010/11 season, through 38 games in 2011/12 and […]
Italy’s national police chief Antonio Manganelli has warned that there will be “even more shocking” revelations in the betting scandal. The investigation is still on-going and has seen some players confess to working with betting syndicates in a bid to fix games. Andrea Masiello most notably admitted to scoring an own goal on purpose in […]
Juventus have not lost in their last 46 league matches, and they could break AC Milan’s seemingly unbreakable record of 59 matches unbeaten against Parma in January. Can they break the Rossoneri’s record? The run by Antonio Conte’ side is remarkable. From the last match of the 2010/11 season, through 38 games in 2011/12 and […]