English speaking coverage of Serie A is a joke in the US. I have to deal with it because I have DirecTV who doesn't carry RAI (or Sky TG24 or any Italian programming). I would switch but no one else in my house wants to.
In the past two days: Marchisio is apparently a defender, and El Shaarawy is Moroccan. According to beIN Sport & Fox Sports 1 respectively. Not to mention the severe lack of airtime anyway.
The PL is the only league that's getting amazing coverage now, since NBC picked them up it looks like every single game is going to be shown live. I think we might have better PL coverage than they do in the UK