Serie A

[Alio]

I have no idea what goes on in Italy anymore, but there once was a time when it was the best league going not so long ago. Saying that, the current European Champions are Inter, anyway, what happened to Italian Football?

Well. This warm up has won me back...

[video=youtube;JUYGMLY4ovU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUYGMLY4ovU[/video]

Now watch it again, a little closer.

Heard a little rumour, that a top flight Italian club could be looking into a foreign owner, which would make them the first team ever in Serie A to do so, which I thought was quite interesting if true

Anyway, does it get shown much on TV now? I don't have Sky, but can't remember the last time I've seen a game on TV?

So, if you're a fan, add your stuff here.

 

[Muggins]

I have no idea what goes on in Italy anymore, but there once was a time when it was the best league going not so long ago. Saying that, the current European Champions are Inter, anyway, what happened to Italian Football?

Well. This warm up has won me back...

[video=youtube;JUYGMLY4ovU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUYGMLY4ovU[/video]

Now watch it again, a little closer.

Heard a little rumour, that a top flight Italian club could be looking into a foreign owner, which would make them the first team ever in Serie A to do so, which I thought was quite interesting if true

Anyway, does it get shown much on TV now? I don't have Sky, but can't remember the last time I've seen a game on TV?

So, if you're a fan, add your stuff here.

hahahaha. WTF???

Some of them have kept fantastic straight faces. It's like someones hacked FIFA and people are controlling them....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Grew up watching Gazetta Football Italia on channel 4. Good times. Back then they had the best players in the world, especially the Milan side in those days but the likes of Batistuta, Baggio, Vialli et al as well. Happy days.

[video=youtube;SFmIkLorRmE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFmIkLorRmE[/video]

 

[Alio]

Damn right Bruce Wayne. Baggio, Ronaldo, Totti, Martin Palermo, Recoba's free kicks, Vieri costing millions of pounds, Montella's little aeroplane celebrations, Chiesa, that goal by Weah, the president of Lazio putting up the price of Milk in the whole of Italy so Eriksson had 40m to blow on Crespo etc and buy the title. Serie A, thanks to Channel 4 as shown in your video, made it the best

It's just drifted away now...I've only just realised Leonardo (legend, former manager and board member of AC Milan) is now the Inter Manager!! Thought that may have caused up a bit of a stir, maybe I'm just missing things

 

[Alio]

Remember this guy?

 

[BlueTak]

That was awesome!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Italian football has fallen massively from its peak. Don't think the bribery situation helped. Juve are a shadow of their former selves, as are Milan. Inter benefited from those two having problems but despite them winning the CL last year I don't think they're a great team by any means. The likes of Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina and Parma are also well down on their former glories. To think Fiorentina had the likes of Batigol and Rui Costa. Really great players.

I was a bit late on the Gullit era, although the class of van Basten was obvious to anyone. This guy was hugely under-rated though. Fantastic player who destroyed the Barca dream team in the CL final.

[video=youtube;qD8HIsMonTM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8HIsMonTM[/video]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Remember this guy?

Haha, Gigi Lentini. Most expensive in the world at the time but barely played for Milan. They had an incredible team back then. Guys like Papin couldn't get near the starting lineup. Sadly (for me) I'd decided to follow Inter after Italia 90 and had to put up with them butchering the talents of Bergkamp and Pancev instead

 

[Muggins]

Fantastic Mullet just there lids.

That's how it's done.

 

[Alio]

Italian football has fallen massively from its peak. Don't think the bribery situation helped. Juve are a shadow of their former selves, as are Milan. Inter benefited from those two having problems but despite them winning the CL last year I don't think they're a great team by any means. The likes of Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina and Parma are also well down on their former glories. To think Fiorentina had the likes of Batigol and Rui Costa. Really great players.

I was a bit late on the Gullit era, although the class of van Basten was obvious to anyone. This guy was hugely under-rated though. Fantastic player who destroyed the Barca dream team in the CL final.

[video=youtube;qD8HIsMonTM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8HIsMonTM[/video]

What a top vid. I remember the name, but not the player watching that, maybe a couple of years before my time watching. I love players like that, I think that's why I loved Serie A at the time, so many flair players. Aaron Lennon is considered tricky here.......you get my point.

Lentini, did he have a bike crash or something?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Savicevic was class. He was signed at the same time as Lentini along with Papin and Boban (another class player - the old slavic nations had some top talent back then).

Lentini had a car crash after one season at Milan. Never really recovered. It's mad to think that Berlesconi owns them though. Can't imagine Blair or Cameron owning a football club here.

 

[Alio]

Do many Italians who play outside of the Serie A, get into the National Team? There was once a tale, where if you played outside of Italy, you weren't considered for Italy. Is that true now? Balotelli, Rossi....many others?

I know for a fact (damonpedia) that Cassano was only the second Italian player to play for Real Madrid, after Panucci. That surprised me a little. They've had Cannavaro since then...but makes you wonder how many leave Italy

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Didn't know that about national team selection. I always assumed it was similar to the situation here in that Serie A was always top dog so players earnt top dollar playing there, so it didn't make much sense to go elsewhere.

 

[Alio]

It's probably that to be honest, just remember hearing that myth somewhere a while back. It may have been why a player didn't want to join the Prem once or something, it's more than likely rubbish or something that happened once a long time ago anyway.

Pavel Nedved, what a player he was

 

[Elong]

Kurt Russell off Point Break?

Like Bruce and yourself Alio, watched Gazette through the 90's, always had an air about it that made it far more special than the Premier League, and players like Weah were far off foreign gods born to be worshipped. Think it's all gone downhill since the bribary cases to be honest.