Category: Italy
Sweden Make Underperforming Italy Pay in Stockholm
A hard-working Sweden draw first blood against a below par Italy in first leg of the World Cup playoff at Stockholm.
A deflected finish from Johans [...]
Pietro Pellegri: The Young Stars of Italian Football
Age: 16
Place of birth: Genoa, Italy
Position: Striker
Current club: Genoa
Serie A experience: 7 games
In March 2015, Genoa president Enrico Pr [...]
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 [...]
Can University Alliance Bring Enlightenment to Ternana?
Football and scientific research may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but the two have become inextricably linked since the Niccolò Cusano University in [...]
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 [...]
Andrea Pirlo: The Party Is Over
The date was June 24th 2012, with Italy and England duelling it out for a place in the semi-finals of the European Championships. England were leading [...]
Gonzalo Higuain: Form Is Temporary
A striker that provides goals wherever he plays, be it at Real Madrid scoring 122 goals between 2007–2013, or breaking a 66-year-old goal scoring reco [...]
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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