Three Italian teams move on in the Champions League, but none avoid the playoffs: Antonio Conte’s Napoli are out In the end, three Italian teams go through, and the one left out is the most representative of Italian football itself: Napoli, the reigning champions with the Scudetto on their chest. The final matchday of the […]
Read in Italian on ilNewyorkese After 22 matchdays, the Nerazzurri already look clear favorites for the title, with no real challengers in sight. Serie A seems to have definitively found its dominant force: Chivu’s Inter, who over the past two months have put together a run of 9 wins and 1 draw, establishing themselves firmly
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Today’s Inter are the exact snapshot of Italian football: the values expressed in Serie A are relative rather than absolute. There was a time when Serie A was able to express absolute values, because the best players in the world were playing here. Today the situation is very different, with the exponential growth of the
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This is a Serie A season in which anything can happen, every single matchday. The only real certainty seems to be Inter’s breakaway. There’s a phrase that has become iconic, spoken years ago by popular Sky Sport Italia commentator Fabio Caressa and now part of the vocabulary of Italian football fans everywhere: soccer is strange.
Allegri’s Milan win away at Como in Thursday night’s rescheduled fixture sharpens the philosophical divide between “result-driven” football and “play-driven” football. Last night we witnessed a very entertaining match between Fabregas’ Como and Allegri’s Milan. In the first half, Como completely controlled proceedings, deservedly taking the lead and creating several chances to double their advantage
Inter–Napoli was exactly the match Italian football needed at a time when the game desperately needs stories and heroes. Football is going through a major transition, one in which its very future as a mass-market spectacle is under discussion. In the era of reels and shorts, with attention spans and interest eroded by habits shaped
While Chivu comes into the head-to-head clash with a +4 cushion and a full-strength squad at his disposal, Conte’s Napoli are ravaged by injuries and are putting all their faith in Højlund. Antonio Conte was harshly criticized a few days ago for pointing out the structural differences between his Napoli and Italy’s historic top clubs—Juventus,
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Matchday 19 of Serie A completely wiped out home advantage: no home wins at all—something that had happened only three other times before. It was supposed to be a “quiet” transitional round for the teams at the top of the table, with eyes already on Sunday’s blockbuster at San Siro between Inter and Napoli and
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The vote of Italians abroad is a theme that often returns to the centre of political debate, especially in the vicinity of the electoral returns. The last opportunity of discussion opened during the examination of the Law of Budget, when the deputy of Brothers of Italy elected abroad Andrea Di Giuseppe presented an agenda on
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Inter, Milan and Napoli: a brutal run of three matches in seven days starts today, due to the rescheduled Matchday 16, which could already prove decisive. It’s only early January, yet the feeling is that the season is about to enter a potentially decisive phase in the Scudetto race. Matchday 19, the final round of
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