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Player Focus: Llorente Becoming the Player Conte Expected at Juve

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Player Focus: Llorente Becoming the Player Conte Expected at Juve It’s the 76th minute of Juventus’ Champions League group stage encounter with FC København at the Parken Stadion back in mid-September. The champions of Italy have come from behind and are drawing 1-1 in a game they’re expected to win.Glancing at his bench, coach Antonio Con...

Player Focus: Antonio Cassano - Ghirardi's Gift to Parma

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Player Focus: Antonio Cassano - Ghirardi's Gift to Parma What do you get someone for their 100th birthday? Parma president Tommaso Ghirardi asked himself that very question over the summer. He had the club’s centenary to plan and wanted to give Parma a gift. “We looked to do something special, something extraordinary to make our fans happy,&rd...

Player Focus: Berardi's Seamless Progression to Serie A Stardom

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Player Focus: Berardi's Seamless Progression to Serie A Stardom It’s a long journey, Cariati Marina to Modena. Almost the length of Italy. By car, it can take you eight or nine hours. Quite the road trip. But Domenico Berardi was keen to make it. He wanted to visit his brother Francesco who was studying there at university. So off he went up north. This wa...

Player Focus: Palacio at Home at Inter

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Player Focus: Palacio at Home at Inter As he drove through the gates at Inter’s Appiano Gentile training ground for the first time, Rodrigo Palacio must have felt a sense of trepidation, not because of the history about the place but for fear that his new captain Javier Zanetti would be waiting for him with a pair of scissors.&ldqu...

Player Focus: Roma Needn’t Pjanic With The Form Miralem's In

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Player Focus: Roma Needn’t Pjanic With The Form Miralem's In With the first day of pre-season training completed, Miralem Pjanic got into his car and prepared to drive to his house on the coast just outside of Rome. As he pulled out of the gates at Trigoria, his vehicle was surrounded. There were angry ultras on both sides. “Go on! Get out! Leave!&rdquo...

Player Focus: Queue Forming for In Form Jorginho

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Player Focus: Queue Forming for In Form Jorginho Stories like Jorginho’s remind you of the lengths kids across the world go to in order to realise their dreams of becoming professional footballers. Here was a boy from Brazil, who used be taken to the beach in Imbituba by his mother Maria Tereza so he could train for hours on end. It wasn&rsq...

Team Focus: Milan's Fragile Defence in Need of Strengthening

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Team Focus: Milan's Fragile Defence in Need of Strengthening Prior to the kick-off of Milan’s Champions League play-off second leg against PSV Eindhoven at San Siro in late August, the Curva Sud unfurled a number of banners. One in particular drew the attention of those in attendance. It read: “A defence and a midfield to reinforce. There isn&rsqu...

Team Focus: Garcia Brings Defensive Resolve to Reconstructed Roma

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Team Focus: Garcia Brings Defensive Resolve to Reconstructed Roma Rudi Garcia was on a break in Marrakech when he got the call. Could he fly to Milan the next day for a meeting with Roma? There was a job at the Stadio Olimpico going and they wanted to sound him out about it. The timing was right. Reflecting on his future after five years at Lille and sensing that ...

Player Focus: Bonucci Ability Taking Pressure Off Pirlo

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Player Focus: Bonucci Ability Taking Pressure Off Pirlo “You might have mistaken me for Pirlo if I had long hair, but I don’t,” joked Leonardo Bonucci after Juventus’ 4-1 win against Lazio at the end of last month. Let’s just say there was a ‘passing’ resemblance between teammates. Not everyone saw it. La Gazzett...

Player Focus: Benítez's Faith in Callejón Repaid

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Player Focus: Benítez's Faith in Callejón Repaid When Napoli director of sport Riccardo Bigon travelled to West Kirby over the summer to visit Rafa Benítez at his home with a view to discussing transfer strategy, he had a number of targets that he wanted to run by the club’s new manager.One of these was apparently Pierre-Emerick Aubam...