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Player Focus: In-form Falque Finding His Feet in Genoa But Might Not Stay for Long

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Player Focus: In-form Falque Finding His Feet in Genoa But Might Not Stay for Long There are some magnificent under the radar stories still dying to be told in Serie A this season. Look at Chievo, for instance. Not only have the Flying Donkeys survived comfortably, but goalkeeper Albano Bizzarri and his backline of Nicolas Frey, Dario Dainelli, Bostjan Cesar and the highly reg...

Player Focus: Return to Form of Warrior Vidal Could be Key to Bernabeu Battle

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Player Focus: Return to Form of Warrior Vidal Could be Key to Bernabeu Battle Arturo Vidal insists he has no regrets. If he had the chance to turn back time, he wouldn’t change a thing. This time last year, the Juventus midfielder damaged the meniscus in his right knee against Fiorentina. Rather than go under the knife immediately, he delayed surgery for a month. &l...

Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second

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Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second Paulo Roberto Falcao was crowned the Eighth King of Rome in 1983. Leading Roma to only their second ever Scudetto was behind his ascension to a throne that had been vacant since 509 BC. There has never been a succession. But the title has passed on. It is one of the nicknames Francesco Totti goes by...

Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish

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Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish A year ago, Gabriele Romagnoli, a La Repubblica columnist, compared watching Gervinho to the final scene in Thelma & Louise. They evoked the same emotion in him. Let’s not get caught… Let’s keep going, one says to the other. Coming to the end of the road, surrounded by police,...

Player Focus: Homesick Tevez Leading Juventus Towards Hope of Treble

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Player Focus: Homesick Tevez Leading Juventus Towards Hope of Treble Never forget where you come from. Argentina and in particular the barrios of Buenos Aires, not just Fuerte Apache where he grew up, are never far from Carlos Tevez’s thoughts. Recall for instance how he celebrated his goals for Juventus last season by lifting up his jersey to reveal a T-shirt ...

Player Focus: Mancini Moulding Bad Boy Icardi With Milan Derby in His Sights

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Player Focus: Mancini Moulding Bad Boy Icardi With Milan Derby in His Sights Mauro Icardi likes a bit of DIY. Earlier this year he moved house with his wife Wanda Nara. “I’ve taken care of everything,” he told Sportweek. “I packed the boxes, unloaded them and built the furniture.” When it was put to the Inter striker that, as a millionaire, he c...

Player Focus: Age Proving No Object for In-form Luca Toni

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Player Focus: Age Proving No Object for In-form Luca Toni Luca Toni has thought about hanging up his boots more than you might think. The first time happened when he was only 20. He was playing for Fiorenzuola in the third division. Toni scored just twice all season. They were relegated. It was the worst moment of his professional career. “Cavasin [t...

Team Focus: Eagles Flying Towards Champions League Thanks to Pioli Impact

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Team Focus: Eagles Flying Towards Champions League Thanks to Pioli Impact Honestly, they should really have been at work. It was a weekday after all. And besides many of Lazio’s best players were away on international duty. But that didn’t stop more than 2,000 supporters showing up to the club’s Formello training ground last Thursday for a training sessi...

Player Focus: Putting Side Before Self Attracts Azzurri to Éder

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Player Focus: Putting Side Before Self Attracts Azzurri to Éder On the eve of Sampdoria’s game against Inter, Sinisa Mihajlovic called a team meeting at the club’s Mugnaini training ground in leafy Bogliasco. He booked the film room for it and left the players under the impression that they were about to do some opposition analysis. Big misunderstood...

Team Focus: Home Providing No Comfort for Stuttering Roma

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Team Focus: Home Providing No Comfort for Stuttering Roma Full of himself, Sky Italia’s garrulous orator in chief Fabio Caressa made a gag at Roma’s expense before Monday night’s game with Sampdoria at the Olimpico. Doing a shift on the network’s sports news channel, he claimed to have exclusive pictures of the team’s final tr...