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International Football

GREEN SHOOTS VISIBLE FOR A NEW AZZURRI

“It’s football. Football, football, football. I don’t think he has any other interest in life.” That’s Sven-Göran Eriksson describing Roberto Mancini in the podcast ‘The Big Interview With Graham Hunter’. Eriksson, who coached Mancini for 9 years — first at Sampdoria and then at Lazio – must know what he was talking about. However, if […]

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Serie A

A MIRACLE IN REGGIO EMILIA

The last miracle in Italian football occurred on a Sunday in May 1991, when U.C. Sampdoria won their first – and so far only – Serie A title, pipping defending champions AC Milan to the Scudetto. Thirty-one years later, Milan conjured a miracle of their own on a Sunday evening in May in the northern […]