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Beppe Marotta Is My God
May 26, 2009
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Napoli fans 'sue' The Guardian!
By Football Italia staff

Napoli fans have announced they are planning to sue The Guardian’s Barry Glendenning for insulting the club and city.

This morning he wrote a transfer round-up in the English newspaper referring to a rumour Napoli are interested in signing Manchester United man Danny Welbeck.

“Napoli sporting director Riccardo Bigon has let Welbeck's agent know that Napoli are interested in signing up his client, but with Everton and Tottenham also interested, the club from one of Italy’s mafia strongholds will need to make Manchester United and Welbeck himself an offer they can’t refuse.”

The reference to the city as a “Mafia stronghold” has infuriated Italian media, who claim this is in effect a ‘racist’ attack on Naples.

Several clubs, most recently Inter, have been fined and even seen sections of the stadium closed down for ‘racist’ chants aimed against Neapolitans, who are covered under Italian rules against racism and territorial discrimination.

Now a group of Napoli supporters, calling themselves the Movimento Neoborbonico, have announced they’ve started a petition to take legal action against The Guardian and Glendenning.

“There were false and offensive statements against the club Napoli, the city of Naples and the Neapolitans.

“It is false and offensive to say Napoli is ‘the club from one of Italy’s mafia strongholds.’ We understand the bitterness that a Manchester United player could be sold to SSC Napoli, but we cannot justify gratuitous insults.

“Ancient enemy of England who contributed to the end of the glorious Reign of the Two Sicilies, Naples was and is one of the few cultural capitals in the world and Napoli one of the most prestigious clubs in the world.

“As Neapolitan citizens and as season ticket holders to Napoli, we are gathering signatures to proceed with our legal team to take action.”

:lol:
It is a mafia stronghold though.

Fucking Neapolitans :sergio: they have that annoying victim mentality, very similar to Liverpool fans.

Oh and Napoli one of the most prestigious clubs in the world...:lol:
 

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Zacheryah

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Aug 29, 2010
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Seriously. I mean, hey, Napoli is kind of a joke. But really? A UK paper should know better than to make broad and outlandish generalizations like that. May as well call WC 2014 the Tranny World Cup.
Exactly. If this was in some comedy program, or Top gear go on a tour trough south italy and uses some protection for napoli's mafia or something, or Clarkson says something about them during the show, then i'd be okay with it.

But this is a goddamn newspaper.
What if La Stampa calls the EPL the league of whore mongers and cheaters, and Londen the most expensive whorehouse in the world ?

Cause that contains as much truth as the statement about trashtown
 

AOD4

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Nov 24, 2004
3,861
We will drop to below Porto but to lose our CL spot i believe we need to be over taken by another 2 countries. With this exit, I hope the Italian league looks at this and try to do something to improve the rot.

We will come back better next year.
 

AOD4

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Nov 24, 2004
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Juventus' failure to reach the Europa League final after losing to Benfica on aggregate means Italy has been demoted to fifth in UEFA's five-year rankings.


Thanks to reaching their second straight Europa League final by virtue of a 2-1 aggregate win over the Bianconeri, Benfica helped Portugal rise above Italy to fourth in the rankings.

Although that does not mean any change in the allocation of berths in Europe for the next two seasons at least, it is nevertheless a further blow to Italian football, above and beyond Juve's elimination.

"Unfortunately, we did not have that one incident which went our way tonight while all they did was obstruct us," said Juve coach Antonio Conte, whose side could nevertheless wrap up a third straight scudetto on Monday. "The Portuguese were just luckier than us. The team who least deserved to go through have reached the final."

That was not the view of the game that Jesus had, however. "We deserve to be in the final because we were better than Juve," said the Portuguese coach to Sky Sport Italia. "We played better both in Lisbon and here."

As a result, it is the first time since 1984 that Serie A has dropped so low in the rankings. Two years after that historic ebb, Italy rose to the top of the standings, holding its place there -- with the exception of 1990 -- until 1999.

Since then, Spanish and English football have overtaken calcio with Germany moving ahead two years ago.

Russia and France are also closing in, although Juve's achievement in reaching the semifinals of the Europa League has at least given the Italian game a boost for the current season with only Spain, England and Germany picking up more ranking points.

The situation is therefore not so bleak. With the 2009-10 season, which included Inter Milan's Champions League triumph, erased from next season, Juve's drop to fifth seems set only to last one year.

Portugal will lose their rewarding 2010-11 campaign -- when Porto and Braga disputed the Europa League final, and in which they picked up more points than any other nation -- next summer with Italy having a favourable record over Portugal in each of the subsequent four seasons, including this year.

For 12 months, though, Serie A can only regard itself as the fifth-strongest league in Europe, according to the UEFA rankings.


http://www.espnfc.com/news/story/_/...eague-benfica-hits-italy-uefa-ranking?cc=5739
 

AOD4

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2004
3,861
Now a days slowly more and more clubs are approaching EL with more serious. This is positive for the league. The fact that , the winner of EL gets to go to CL qualifying round has further raised its importance especially in Serie A where we only have 3 spots compared to EPL, Bundesliga and La Liga. More clubs are coming up with their own stadium which is refreshing. Clubs like Roma and Inter are doing more to be financially better. We surely have better appeal than Bundesliga and La Liga and we can capitalize in it. Looking forward to the better times for the league starting from next season.
 

petersmit

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Mar 14, 2006
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http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/index.html Currently we are on the 4th spot, but when the 09/10 season goes away and the 14/15 season is added, we'll be fifth... this has nothing to do with us because if you look at this year, italy had 14.166 points while portugal only has 9.750 (if benfica win the final, italy still did better this season..)

If Italy does good in the CL and El next year... the year after that we'll leapfrog Portugal again because their 18.8 season won't count anymore...

We are not too blame... we are actually doing good for our country..
 

Roman

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Apr 19, 2003
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http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/index.html Currently we are on the 4th spot, but when the 09/10 season goes away and the 14/15 season is added, we'll be fifth... this has nothing to do with us because if you look at this year, italy had 14.166 points while portugal only has 9.750 (if benfica win the final, italy still did better this season..)

If Italy does good in the CL and El next year... the year after that we'll leapfrog Portugal again because their 18.8 season won't count anymore...

We are not too blame... we are actually doing good for our country..
+1.

:tup:
 

AOD4

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2004
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Atalanta midfielder Daniele Baselli’s agent has commented on links to Paris Saint-Germain: “Now, Serie A is a starting point and not an end point.”

Speculation has been in recent weeks that the 22-year-old’s work with La Dea this season has caught the eye of PSG and a summer bid may be imminent.

Whilst Baselli has played down these links, his agent has now offered a more open comment, when asked if the likelihood of the player becoming 'the next Marco Verratti’, to leave Italy for foreign shores.

“It would certainly not be good for our football,” Giuseppe Riso has told Gianluca Di Marzio’s website this week.

“But we must recognise that now, Serie A is a starting point and not an end point.

“And it is normal for our kids to be more attracted by experiences abroad.”
 

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