[ITA] Serie A 2007/2008 (54 Viewers)

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Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
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Here are the official players statistics after 22 rounds :


Goals:
1. Trezeguet 15
2. Ibrahimovic 14
3. Mutu 13
4. Borriello 12
5. Cruz, Totti and Tavano 10

Assists
1-3 Ibrahimovic, Lavezzi and Pizarro 7
4-5 Di Natale and Maggio 6

From Juve: Zanetti shares the 6th place with 5 assists

Successfull passes:
1. De Rossi 1251
2. Pizarro 1226
3. Pirlo 1173
4. Javier Zanetti 932
5. Nesta 931

From Juve: Zanetti 675 passes ( 25th place)

Successfull crosses :
1. Tissone (Atalanta) 44
2. Ledesma 42
3. Hamsik 39
4-5 Foggia and D'Agostino 35

From Juve: Palladino and Nedved 26 (share 15th place)

Clearings (i guess this means when the defenders will clear the danger from the box??)
1. Stovini (Catania) 341
2. Terlizzi (Catania) 228
3. Chiellini (Juventus) 216
4. Gamberini (Fiorentina) 199
5. Knezevic (Livorno) 190

Shots:
1. Mutu 87
2. Borriello 84
3. Quagliarella 78
4. Ibrahimovic 75
5. Trezeguet 69

Won tackles:
1. Gargano 78
2. Juric 74
3. Morrone 71
4. Blasi 69
5. Cristiano Zanetti 65


Intercepted Passes:
1. Simplicio 67
2-3. Morrone and Cannavaro 65
4-5. Cigarini and Codrea 61

from Juve: Zanetti 41 intercepted passes (shares 41st place)


Offsides:
1-2. Gilardino and Corradi 41
3. Borriello 33
4. Rocchi 32
5. Maccarone 29

From Juve: Trezeguet 28 (6th place)


Fouls commited :
1. Corradi 83
2. Amauri 66
3-4. Pazzini and Mutu 59
5. Borriello 58

From Juve: Nocerino 47 (18th place)


Fouls suffered:
1. Vannucchi 83
2. Lavezzi 79
3. Amauri 77
4. Foggia 76
5. Baiocco 71

From Juve: Del Piero 62 (10th place)


Yellow cards:
1. Doni 11
2. Nocerino 11
3. Conti 10
4. Carrozzieri 10
5. De Rossi 9

Minutes played:
Barzagli, Portanova, Loria, Coppola played maximum minutes

From Juve: Trez 1920 minutes (6th place)
 

Dostoevsky

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May 27, 2007
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Ronaldo To Retire In The Summer?

Forever-injured Rossoneri striker Ronaldo is set to retire from football at the end of the season, according to unconfirmed reports in Milan.

The Brazilian has had a nightmare of a season due to injuries, making just one start before Christmas.

It seemed that his fitness was improving though when he lined up against Napoli in week 18 and scored two goals in a 5-2 win.

He impressed again the following week at Udinese, however then the injuries started to re-appear, and most recently he was forced off at half-time during Sunday’s match with Siena due to physical problems.

Ronaldo is definitely out of tomorrow’s clash with Livorno, and he is also a huge doubt for the weekend match with Parma and the Champions League tie with Arsenal in London.

The 31-year-old is said to be desperately depressed at continually picking up injuries and is ready to retire from the game altogether in the summer.

El Fenomeno’s contract at San Siro runs out in June, and the club is unwilling to offer him a new deal unless he can prove his fitness.

This is looking increasingly unlikely, although Ronaldo will have the option to return home and play for Flamengo.

As a replacement Milan are considering bringing back Marco Borriello or Nicola Pozzi, who are currently at Genoa and Empoli respectively. Another option is Chelsea’s Didier Drogba.

goal.com
 

JCK

Biased
JCK
May 11, 2004
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These statistics show how terrible we are at passing but that we already know. As for crossing, it really shows a very horrible thing here because we keep on relying on crossing.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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The fact that Palladino leads our team in successful crosses is particulary scary. Especially when you know he's only started half of our matches and hasn't looked all that amazing in any of them.

Just more evidence that we don't have the players to field a straight 4-4-2, but we already knew that.
 

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
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Why isn't Inzaghi top of this bunch? Has Pippo retired? :D
He would have definitely been on top if he played more, because he leads the list for average number of offsides per game.
He's in top 20 and he started only 5 matches this season :lol2:
Imagine the lead he'd have had if he played all the matches.
 

Marceℓℓo

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Mar 16, 2007
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Catania in Matrix appeal Tuesday 12 February, 2008

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Catania have launched an appeal against Inter as they feel the Nerazzurri shouldn’t have been able to field Marco Materazzi last weekend.

The Stadio Massimino battle ended in controversy after the visitors won 2-0 with a first goal that was scored in an offside position.

Now it seems that the ill feeling won’t end there as Catania believe that Inter broke an FIGC rule by fielding Materazzi, who had pulled out of Italy’s friendly against Portugal in midweek with a back problem.

The rule is designed to stop players choosing club over country and pulling out of international engagements with fake injuries.

“Sporting judge Giampaolo Tosel acknowledges the claim and will make a decision once he has received all necessary information,” a statement from the Lega Calcio reads.

“There’s a rule and it should apply to everyone,” Catania sporting director Pietro Lo Monaco raged on Radio Radio.

“We have a player, Juan Vargas, and he was injured before and still had to travel to the Peruvian camp. He didn’t play and came back fine, but we couldn’t field him in our next game against Torino.”

An investigation will take place, but disciplinary action against Materazzi is less likely than a nominal fine for Inter.


Channel 4

Fake injuries,fake passports,fake scudetti...what else?
 

Bozi

The Bozman
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Oct 18, 2005
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Why isn't Inzaghi top of this bunch? Has Pippo retired? :D
nah they just stopped flagging him offside, new rules stipulate that neither inzaghi or zlatan are ever offside...ever! behind teh defender?onside. standing next to the keeper?onside. standing on the goal-line having bound and gagged the keeper?yup,you guessed it, onside

Fake injuries,fake passports,fake scudetti...what else?
oh..oh..i know this one......fake fans:inter:
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
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Dec 10, 2004
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Ze Tahir - nice avatar, she is a latvian hockey player wife. :)

Nocerino isnt versatile and doesnt have the ability to be creative, but, he can progress with his passing :) Anyway, the guy that wrote this article should have watched Coppa Carnevale in Viareggio, there were some good talents, 22 year old player isnt future hope, they all are good players right now.
Thanks ;) Who's wife?
 
Mar 24, 2006
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Debate: Top Ten Italian Wonderkids
There is bad news coming for the rest of the footballing universe. World Champions Italy look to have another impossibly talented generation of players on the way. Gil Gillespie picks ten of the best.

Debate: Top Ten Italian Wonderkids


It’s not easy being a young footballer in Europe in the 21st Century. Almost every promising kid is caught somewhere between a frustrating rock or very demanding hard place.

One moment they are perched expectantly on the edge of an over-stuffed substitute bench. The next they are being blinded by a ferocious media spotlight and christened the next Maradona.

Promise, as history has taught us so many times, does not always lead to greatness.

But if the sizeable crop of Italian youngsters currently setting Serie A and B alight do manage to live up to their potential, the future is going to be coloured Azzurri blue.

It’s difficult to remember a time when so many potentially exceptional talents have threatened to emerge at the same time. Truly, Italy have an abundance of future stars.

Heading this fresh-faced assault on a not-too-distant tomorrow are the likes of Alberto Aquilani, Fiorentina’s Pazzini and Montolivo, Juventus pair Giorgio Chiellini and Raffaele Palladino and Udinese’s Fabio Quagliarella. We already know all about these players so we won’t profile them again here.

Because behind these stellar talents there is already another generation of virtuoso kids trying to push through.

So, for the purposes of this particular list, we will only deal with players born in 1985 or after. Here, then, in no particular order, are our top 10 next generation Italian superstars in waiting. Don't say you haven't been warned.

1. Andrea Russotto

Club: Treviso
Age: 19
Position: Midfield

There is a good deal of mystery surrounding the extraordinarily talented Andrea Russotto. He grew up in the Lazio youth system and was establishing himself as one of the best young players in Italy. Then, just when things seemed as if they couldn't get any better, they suddenly got rapidly worse. He was mysteriously off-loaded to Swiss second-division club Bellinzona. Apparently, after refusing to sign a deal with powerful player representation agency, GEA, one of many pies Alessandro Moggi had his fingers in. His sale was an ultimatum; sign with us or forget about your career. The kid they are calling the 'new Baggio' is now, happily, playing a different kind of ball game for Treviso. Juventus are known to be interested.

2. Sebastian Giovinco

Club: Empoli
Age: 21
Position: Midfield

He may only be 5ft nothing tall but Juventus-owned youngster Sebastian Giovinco has been making a big splash all his footballing life. He has been Italy's first choice as 'fantasista' from the Under-16's upwards and is now showing his brilliance at Under-21 level. It was a slice of impossible skill from Giovinco that set-up Robert Acquafresca to beat Albania in the recent European Championship qualifier. Even an old stager like Dino Zoff is excited at this hottest of prospects. "Giovinco is the miniature Del Piero," commented the goalkeeping legend. "Indeed I believe he has superior fantasy and technical ability to Il Pinturicchio." Juventus have announced that the kid is not for sale at any price.

3. Lorenzo De Silvestri

Club: Lazio
Age: 19
Position: Right-back

Here is a remarkable 19-year-old right-back with a single-minded vision to break down barriers, wherever they may be. Last season Silvestri was still playing in the Lazio youth team but his stellar talent has now seen him force his way into the club's starting X1. He possesses something else too; fierce, analytical, intelligence. "To become a top footballer you need to have motivation, humility and education," argues this potential future Azzurri captain. De Silvestri has just enrolled at university to study law.

4. Luca Cigarini

Club: Parma
Age: 21
Position:

Midfield Parma's very own metronome, Cigarini's relentlessly accurate passing from just in front of the defence for both club and country have already seen him compared to the greatest ball distributor in the modern game, Andrea Pirlo. It is a comparison that he finds very flattering. "Being compared to Pirlo is a point of arrival for any player," admits this product of the Gialloblu youth system. He possesses the same subtlety of movement, the same ability to disguise a pass, the same lazy swing when he chips inch-perfect lobs into the feet of the strikers. "I am convinced myself, in the sense that I know my potential, that I am ready for a great team," he said a couple of weeks ago. Few would argue with him.

5. Robert Acquafresca

Club: Cagliari
Age: 20
Position: Striker

Tall, lighting quick, good in the air and with a marksman's eye for goal, the Turin-born striker is not having a great season on-loan with Cagliari but remains on fire for the Azzurrini scoring five goals since he made his debut against Albania in June 2007. The poetically-named former Treviso star was part of the deal that eventually took David Suazo to Inter in the summer and there has already been some talk of the Nerazzurri buying him back for an estimated £4 million. His agent, Paolo Fabbri, has advised him to stay where he is. "It is so easy to burnout and I've advised him to stay calm," revealed Fabbri, sensibly, back in December last year. Torino have also been interested. He just might be the long-term replacement for Luca Toni in the Italian team.

6. Giuseppe Rossi

Club: Villarreal CF
Age: 21
Position: Striker

Because Italian football forbids any player under the age of 18 from signing a contract, Manchester United were able to steal this New Jersey-born Italian-American from right under Parma's nose. Despite a series of prolific displays in the reserves, Rossi somehow never made the breakthrough at Old Trafford and was first loaned back to Parma, then, reluctantly, put up for sale by Alex Ferguson. For reason's best known to themselves, not one Serie A club was sufficiently interested in signing a player who has been compared to the impossibly-talented Giuseppe Signori. Rossi shrugged his shoulders and headed for Spain where he has scored 11 goals so far this season, even though he often starts out of position as a lone striker. Now even Roberto Donadoni is sitting up and taking notice.

7. Ricardo Montolivo

Club: Fiorentina
Age: 23
Position: Midfield

Roman Abramovich's super-scout, 71-year-old Piet de Visser was so impressed with the Fiorentina midfielder at last years European Under-21 Championships, he nearly fell off his chair. "Ricardo Montolivo is the superstar of all young midfielders in Europe," commented the seasoned spotter. "He has very good skills, but the best thing about him is that he combines his skills with fantastic running power. I could not spot a weakness in his game." Montolivo is yet another prodigious talent from the world class Atalanta youth system and yet another relentlessly accurate passer in the Pirlo mode. As influential as any other player in the Viola's impressive season, it is only a matter of time before he adds to his one senior international cap.

8. Antonio Nocerino

Club: Juventus
Age: 22
Position: Midfield

What a season it has been for Antonio Nocerino. Back in September, the young Neapolitan must have thought he find himself spending most of his time on the bench. But the failure of new signings Tiago and Almiron catapulted him into the very heart of Juve's push for a Champions League finish. And the 22-year-old has responded magnificently, becoming one of the finest box-to-box midfielders in Serie A. He has often been compared to Rino Gattuso but in truth this is a little wide of the mark. Nocerino has excelled in the role of midfield enforcer but possesses the easy technical ability of a creative type. A versatile future international certainty, in other words

9. Pablo Daniel Osvaldo

Club: Fiorentina
Age: 22
Position: Striker

Any Italian who witnessed his two stunning goals on his debut for Fiorentina against Livorno was delighted when this Argentine-born Italian citizen decided that he wanted to play for the country of his home and not the nation of his birth. The comparisons with Gabriel Batistuta are, perhaps, inevitable. Osvaldo even chose the legendary striker's number 9 when the shirts were handed out at the start of the season. "I knew it had belonged to Bati...it is an honour for me to wear it," said the young pretender. He certainly has the skill and explosiveness in the box to do justice to it.

10. Alberto Paloschi

Club: Milan
Age: 18
Position: Striker

Talk about making an entrance. Just 15 seconds after coming off the bench to make his debut for the current World and European champions. Alberto Paloschi won the game against Siena with his very first touch in Serie A. Within seconds, someone, somewhere was already calling him 'the new Pato'. It's a ridiculous tag and one that he is keen to play down. “I had a bit of luck, too. I really didn’t expect to score on my debut and I still feel goose-bumps now,” said the young striker after the game. He does not, however, make this list because of his instant impact in Serie A. He makes it because Carlo Ancelotti considered his performances in the Viareggio youth tournament to be so impressive that he merited a call-up to the first team.

Gil Gillespie
No Inter WonderGirl on the list :weee:


Marchisio should put on the list , and Nocerino is way too old .
 
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