Category: Calcio Consultant
Things I’m Thankful For In Serie A – The Calcio Consultant
So if you are a faithful follower of my blog, you’ll know that I’ve had a few instalments here that suggest I’ve been down in the dumps lately. Well, [...]
Italy Miss World Cup Thanks To Not So Ace Ventura – Calcio Consultant
As an American, my first World Cup experience was in 1986. The USA wasn’t in it, so I’ve seen a World Cup without them before, writes Frank Crivello.
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Things That Scare Me About Italian Football – The Calcio Consultant
Aside from the paper ghosts hung up in my house, pumpkins, costumes for my kids, decorative spider webs, and of course the excess of candy, you wouldn [...]
Italy’s Next Wave of Great Managers – The Calcio Consultant
Wine, food and fashion -- just some of the things Italy does well.
Within calcio, Italy have a mass production line of goalkeepers, defenders and [...]
The Serie A Situation: Full League Roundup – The Calcio Consultant
The first nine or ten matches of the season are what’s known as the getting to know you phase. It’s at that point where we have a good understanding o [...]
Montella’s Milan Mismanagement – The Calcio Consultant
The reality of AC Milan is, while loads of money has been spent in strengthening the squad, the players were going to need time to get acclimated to o [...]
A Paulo Dybala Debate & Other Takes – The Calcio Consultant
For this instalment of The Calcio Consultant, I am likely going to draw the ire of the Juventus faithful by inconveniencing them with this hot take:
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Previewing Italian Sides in Europe 2017/2018 – The Calcio Consultant
With the international break behind us, the European competitions will be front and centre over several midweeks (writes Frank Crivello).
We’ve see [...]
Rating Every Serie A Team’s Mercato – The Calcio Consultant
The silliness is over, and we can finally just focus on the football. No more who’s going where, just who’s in what team (writes Frank Crivello).
But [...]
Two-Week Takes from Serie A: The Calcio Consultant
Hopefully people will be as hesitant to be as critical of this instalment, just as Serie A officials were hesitant to use VAR (see Roma-Inter, Milan-C [...]