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If you are looking for my other blog about the Italian Tennis, go here: http://potitostarace.blogspot.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-49102678679495650192017-04-21T08:28:00.000-07:002017-04-21T08:28:09.551-07:00Garmin Forerunner 635<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Quale sarà il prossimo Garmin, il Garmin Forerunner 635?</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-45863679581812715482017-04-21T08:27:00.000-07:002017-04-21T08:27:25.690-07:00Garmin Forerunner 735 XT, la nostra opinione<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Non mi è ancora chiara l'opinione sul Garmin Forerunner 735XT, detto anche Garmin Forerunner 735 xt, ma appena lo troverò a disposizione, valuterò come analizzarlo nella corsa.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-26874651309705913962017-04-21T08:26:00.000-07:002017-04-21T08:26:02.794-07:00Garmin Forerunner 935, recensione<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Non è una sorpresa, ma il nuovo Garmin Forerunner 935 sarà recensito presto.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-63422069348675390442017-04-21T08:24:00.003-07:002017-04-21T08:24:18.727-07:00Garmin Forerunner 235, recensione<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Garmin Forerunner 235, davvero da comprare?</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-75208706607960131432010-01-22T07:14:00.000-08:002010-01-23T05:37:09.971-08:00Marathon RankingI have added a new blog, called <a href="http://marathonranking.blogspot.com/">marathon ranking</a>. This site aims to inform sport tourists around the world about Italian Marathons, and shares experiences from Bloggers who have attended such events in the past.<div><br /></div><div>This is the post indicating the <a href="http://marathonranking.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-top-10-italian-marathons.html">top 10 Italian marathons</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1433946207472488932009-08-23T11:14:00.000-07:002009-08-29T07:02:15.827-07:00Diego Maradona jr. is training with Juve StabiaAfter winning the 2009 Italian beach soccer championship, Diego jr. has decided to start training with <a href="http://www.ssjuvestabia.it/">Juve Stabia</a>, playing in the Pro League, second division. This represents a possibility to come back to the professional soccer in Italy. Castellamare di Stabia is located 30 kilometers southeast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>, closed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrento,_Italy" title="Sorrento, Italy" class="mw-redirect">Sorrento</a>.<br /><br />In an interview with napolimagazine.com, Diego stated: "<span style="font-style: italic;">I am currently training in Castellamare di Stabia. I am trying to reach the best physical fit, since after three months of Beach Soccer, I am not at my best level. I should start well the initial training. I really hope to play with Juve Stabia, since the team is strong and competitive. Several friends like Marco Capparella and Gaetano Grieco play there, I hope I will demonstrate in the team my strengths.</span>"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-38475822448402821312009-01-17T02:35:00.001-08:002009-02-23T02:00:14.131-08:00Diego junior coming back to Quarto<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVKI_7Xl4vwNtR6HZ93G6FBiFQPc-CdE_EEDX4znbsDWNoub9rmpDbEPBQnZBwEg1p0mLjrKDAy4E4-_P_qO9cGIDNDaKc_Q_sb1ztn0aRhMrsK4MLaEPy3TGMA4yHURXuun7ww/s1600-h/caivanese-stadium.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVKI_7Xl4vwNtR6HZ93G6FBiFQPc-CdE_EEDX4znbsDWNoub9rmpDbEPBQnZBwEg1p0mLjrKDAy4E4-_P_qO9cGIDNDaKc_Q_sb1ztn0aRhMrsK4MLaEPy3TGMA4yHURXuun7ww/s320/caivanese-stadium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292250847195733874" border="0" /></a>Diego jr. did not make up his mind: after one week in Caivanese (left, the stadium), he decided to come back and play once more for Quarto, in the same division. This is 2 years after he helped the team to get promoted to the fifth series in the small city in the Naples area.<br />Reasons for the change are not entirely clear: maybe the fact that Caivanese was last in the ranking, possibly the lack of challenges within his former team, maybe the good relationship with Quarto's president and his good memory of the past.<br />The crude reality is however that Maradona junior has not yet found his true dimension.<br /><br />PS: as an aside, it appears from the Italian press that the transfer from Caivanese to Quarto did not take correctly place from a procedural standpoint. This means that Diego jr. will not play until June 2009 in official games.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-54375423288484030882009-01-02T01:08:00.000-08:002009-01-11T10:16:17.202-08:00Maradona jr. plays for CaivaneseAfter his appearance to the beach soccer world tournament in 2008 where he scored in the Final game with Brazil, Diego jr. decided to come back to the "real soccer".<br />He has the chance to train for few weeks with River Plate's second team in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October 2008, but he finally decided to come back to his root, in a place close to Naples.<br />He got a job in the sixth Italia football division, playing for Caivanese boys. Caivano is a small (35000 abitants) town near Naples, its stadium holds 1300 spectators and is in artificial turf.<br /><br />The most famous Caivanese alumn is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciro_De_Cesare">Ciro de Cesare</a>, who played in first division at the beginning of this century.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-52839545907413277582008-12-31T06:23:00.000-08:002009-01-31T06:15:09.241-08:00NVIDIA Geforce 9600 GT and Linux distributions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibsA_AwBRM5BDm16xMMhd-kVg7ngViLDvrBDX8LXIkGaBpAsroSZTDPnki9V0sAoFA7Qsd0ko-3U9Nq-bwAV_vomSXGpyybrO9_JlBvpf81CFmIwb3A-ScZ91854kR0NFI7NPDw/s1600-h/nvidia-settings.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibsA_AwBRM5BDm16xMMhd-kVg7ngViLDvrBDX8LXIkGaBpAsroSZTDPnki9V0sAoFA7Qsd0ko-3U9Nq-bwAV_vomSXGpyybrO9_JlBvpf81CFmIwb3A-ScZ91854kR0NFI7NPDw/s320/nvidia-settings.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290066236067459794" border="0" /></a><br />If you are coming here by googling, you can definitely find an answer to the question: is the NVIDIA Geforce 9600 GT supported by Linux? The short answer is yes.<br /><br />As Christmas gift, I got a new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Geforce-9600gt-Gt1gb-Pci-e/dp/B001OK42LI/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1230733633&sr=8-8">NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT</a>, 1GB.<br />I was quite worried on how to get it working under Linux. My standard Linux install (Mepis 6.0) was for sure unable to support it, since it is an old one (but a very stable one).<br /><br />After partitioning a new 500Gb hard-disk into 10 pieces, I have decided to give a try to several distros, mainly on the <a href="http://distrowatch.com/">Distrowatch</a> top 50.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DreamLinux</span> (v3.5):<br />The distro recognized immediately the Geforce, although the 3D effects were not automatically activated into the Live CD. However, a simple "sudo nvidia-install" outside X loaded the drivers and the 3D effects came into play. Additional details can be found <a href="http://linux-hardcore.com/index.php?topic=1607.0">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sabayon</span> (v.3.51):<br />The Sabayon liveCD recognized the Geforce as well as offered the possibility to activate the 3D effects. Well done, zero effort from my side.<br />However, since I installed Sabayon into the hard drive well before Christmas, I wasn't able to get it working in the Hard Disk installation. It took me few hours to address the issue: "<code>sudo equo install nvidia-drivers"</code> fix it and "<code>fusion-icon"</code> activates the 3D effects.<br />The <a href="http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15491">upgrade to Sabayon 4.0</a> required around 30 hours, but the effort was pretty limited from a brain power perspective. Few glitches (artwork, compiz, xorg.conf) were still there, but it is pretty straightforward to fix them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mepis</span> (v.7.92):<br />2D graphics are loaded<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PCLinuxOS</span> (v.):<br />3D graphics are loaded into the Live CD, a small changes is however necessary to make this happening (from the "PC menu", select System / Configuration / Configure your computer, then go into Hardware / Configure Graphics / Configure 3D effects and select Compiz Fusion)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LinuxMint </span>(v. 6.0) <span style="font-weight: bold;">& Ubuntu </span>(v. 8.10):<br />2D graphics are loaded into the Live CD, the Ubuntu developers have not included as standard the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, a small changes is necessary to make this happening. (From the "Gnome menu", select Control Center / Hardware Drivers and the system automatically proposes a menu to download and install the NVIDIA 1.77 drivers)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-49485196366104674352008-05-18T11:58:00.000-07:002009-01-10T00:50:54.226-08:00Beach Soccer and Maradona jrAs you probably have noticed, Diego jr. has played for Italy at the Beach soccer qualification for the World Cup in Marseille. Apparently he had good games, and his team qualified for the the games that will be during the month of July. Italy lost twice with Spain and Russia at penalties.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-75979535335302169392007-02-25T05:25:00.000-08:002009-01-10T00:52:13.947-08:00Maradona Jr. will play for QuartoAfter recovering from an injury that stops him for playing for almost 1 year, Maradona jr. has signed for Quarto, a local team in Naples, where he plans to play until the end of this season.<br /><br />Apparently, he had offers from several teams in the Fourth series in Italy (i.e. C2 serie) and from Bremen, a German team playing in the Third Division.<br /><br />Hopefully, we will see him playing in the European teams eventually.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1156580845715831452006-08-26T01:23:00.000-07:002009-01-10T00:52:27.002-08:00Where is Diego Maradona jr.?Actually, it is very hard tracking him these days.<br />He was probably injured in the last few months, for sure he did not play the final match <a href="http://www.internapolicalcio.it/news28.html">Gragnano-Internapoli</a> which gave to the winner the opportunity to play in Serie D.<br />It is even harder to find something on the Internet or on the press (I am not reading though the newspapers from Naples, so maybe I am missing something).<br />Anyway, where are you Diego jr?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1148664725241323262006-05-26T10:20:00.000-07:002009-01-10T00:52:45.784-08:00I am looking forward to try Picasa for Linux<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/picture-this-picasa-for-linux.html">As suggested here</a>, Picasa for Linux is available for downloading. It is a long downloading (20 MB).<br />I haven't tried yet, but I will do it soon (at 3pm EST time, the link was broken).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1148040290249973452006-05-19T05:01:00.000-07:002009-01-10T00:53:09.397-08:00Moggi, you should have tried Skype!When I was child, my grand-father took me for the first time to the <a href="http://www.sansiro.net/">San Siro Stadium</a>. It was <a href="http://www.inter.it/aas/palmares/vitt?L=it&IDV=12">1979</a> and I had the chance to watch one of the last Soccer games during a season when <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.inter.it/en">Inter</a> won the Scudetto. The opponents were Inter and <a href="http://www.pescaracalcio.com/">Pescara</a> and my favorite team won 2 by 0. Inter's coach was <a href="http://www.valtaro.it/bersellini/index.htm">Eugenio Bersellini</a>, who became during his career the Football coach of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_national_football_team">Libian national team</a>.<br />I was in the second grade Elementary School.<br /><br />At that time, the main argument for discussion with my classmates was about Juventus and its "cheating" style. As background for non Italian reader, the Agnelli family owned not only Fiat, the Italian automaker, but also Juventus (by the way, now Juventus is listed in the Italian stock exchange, but it is still partly owned by Fiat). Once upon the time, there was rumors, many rumors, that referees got cars in exchange for favourable "treatments" during soccer games. Rumors, only rumors.<br /><br />Wikipedia defines cheating as the act "<span style="font-style: italic;">employed to create an unfair advantage, usually in one's own interest, and often at the expense of others." </span>I was too young to define the meaning of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating">cheating</a>", Internet was not commonly available. In the last few days, after 25 years, I got an impressive example of what cheating signifies. <a href="http://www.juventus.com/">Juventus</a>, or some Juventus managers have adopted very "unconventional" behaviour to favor their team during the last year season.<br />A great comment about this story is on the Economist website, where the Magazine talks about (a new) Italian Scandal, now called "<a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_GJQQSPV">The Dirty feet</a>".<br /><br />The main character of this scandal is by far the General Manager of Juventus Soccer team, <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moggi">Mr. Moggi</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moggi">Moggi</a> has always been considered one of the most controversial soccer manager of the last twenty years, earning the nickname of "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucky Luciano</span>". In the past, he was also called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Bat</span> («Paletta») since he has been a stationmaster for 19 years, before moving to the Soccer world.<br /><br />There are so many people talking about him in the last few days, that it is hard for me to say something different and creative. However, the true key (and funny) question of this story has been suggested during one of the last soccer games: why Mr. Moggi had not tried Skype, see below (Source <a href="http://www.antijuve.com/">Antijuve</a> website).<br />My answer is crystal clear: had Mr. Moggi worked for some technology or Telecom companies in Italy, he would have used Skype, avoided wire-tapping and Juventus supporter would have been happy with their 29th title («Scudetto»).<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.antijuve.com/img/MOGGISKYPE.jpg" width="383" height="298" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1144486911588788432006-04-08T01:48:00.000-07:002009-01-10T00:56:25.534-08:00The last 11 years in Europe...My soccer team, <a href="http://www.inter.it/en">Inter</a> lost last Thusday in the Champion's league in the quarterfinals with <a href="http://www.villarrealcf.es/">Villareal</a>. I was so disappointed about this result, but my anger changes quickly to bitterness after watching the <a href="http://www.webalice.it/mam265/inter">Inter's European failure video</a>, that a friend of mine puts on the web. It is a small video (1 min. 45 sec., unfortunately spoken in Italian) that has been taken from the <a href="http://www.skytv.it/">Italian Sky news tv</a>. The journalist talks about the 4 soccer players who had the chance to help their teams eliminating the "great Inter" in the last 11 years.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1143223181232349302006-03-24T09:36:00.000-08:002009-01-10T00:57:09.092-08:00Google Finance and the Italian MarketAs indicated by the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/spring-is-season-for-love-and-data.html">official Google blog</a>, Google launched this week <a href="http://finance.google.com/">Google Finance</a>.<br />I am pretty impressed by the fact that Google was able to use information about companies listed at the Milan Stock Exchange, with plenty of data about them.<br />This is not so strange since few weeks ago, Google became the official search engine inside <a href="http://www.fineco.it/">Fineco</a>, which is the leading online banking service in Italy.<br /><br />However, the US version is much more complete with several financial data and graphs, we do not find on the Italian counterpart. Moreover, it is not possible to use the "add portfolio" functionality, since they are not supporting at the moment international stocks.<br />Hopefully, they will complete the International version soon, even though it is reasonable that we need to wait for 2-3 months.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1143189524064118232006-03-24T00:19:00.000-08:002009-01-10T00:57:26.636-08:00New Interview for Maradona jr.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2570/406/1600/diegojr.jpg"><blockquote><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2570/406/200/diegojr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></blockquote></a><br />I have just heard about a new interview that Diego Armando Maradona jr. has released to the <a href="http://www.italiamedia.net/">Italian press</a>. As he always said, Diego jr. wants to play for Naples. "My dream is still to wear the Napoli's jersey. However, I don't want to get the number 10, because I am a different person compared to my father. I want to say something about the Maradona 'character'. In football field, he has been great, but outside the pitch he has always been influenced by other guys. By the way, this is something that happens to all drug addicts."<br /><br />Unfortunately Diego Maradona jr. (see picture taken from the <a href="http://www.napoli.com/">Napoli.com</a> website) haven't play recently, as far as I can see in the <a href="http://www.internapolicalcio.it/">Internapoli calcio</a> website. Hopefully, he will come back to the pitch soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1141119308579657682006-02-28T00:50:00.000-08:002009-01-10T00:57:45.995-08:00Joel Retornaz and curling (Forza Joel!)In the last few days, I have read a great article on the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</a> about Curling.<br />Funny enough, my country, Italy, discovered a new discipline with the Winter Olympics. During the competition, <a href="http://www.raidue.rai.it/">Raidue</a>, the Italian TV, usually shows the Italian curling team once a day.<br />Three weeks ago, nobody could have forecasted this!<br /><br />Thanks to the Italian most famous curler, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Retornaz">Joel Retornaz</a> (by the way, he was indeed born in Switzerland), who has been defined by the WP "a celebrity built in less than a week", almost 5 million people watched the winning game with Canada.<br />Before the event, there was less than 500 people playing curling in Italy....<br /><span class="body">By the way, Italy had never before qualified for an Olympic curling tournament; we were at Torino only because Italy was the host country.</span><br /><br /><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto;" bgcolor="#cfdee0" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td><img alt="Joel Retornaz " src="http://www.lastampa.it/torino2006/cmssezioni/curling/200602images/retornaz01p.jpg" vspace="2" align="right" border="0" hspace="2" /></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1140519789333849502006-02-21T03:02:00.000-08:002009-01-10T00:58:01.862-08:00Maradona jr is playing for InternapoliI did not update my blog for a while.<br /><br />But now, I have great news.<br />Diego Armando Maradona jr has finally decided: he will play for the <a href="http://internapolicalcio.it/home.html">Internapoli</a>. Internapoli plays in the 6th Italian division (so called Excellence division). In a recent interview (<a href="http://www.kisskissnapoli.it/">Kiss Kiss radio Naples</a>), Diego junior said that he wants to demonstrate to perform well in his city. He also mentioned that he loves Naples and Naples soccer team. In the near future he hopes of being able to play in the blue jersey (i.e. for Napoli calcio). He has started training with Internapoli since the beginning of 2006, and he believes he has made the right choice for his soccer career.<br /><br />Indeed, as mentioned by <a href="http://www.carlonesti.it/">Carlo Nesti</a>, a famous italian journalist, he has turned down several offers from better teams (for instance, <a href="http://www.forzacireale.it/">Acireale</a>, in C1 Serie, third division, <a href="http://www.aclecco.it/home.htm">Lecco</a>, in C2 Serie, fourth division, <a href="http://www.ssangricalcio1927.it/">Angri</a>, in <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serie_D_%28calcio%29">D serie</a>, fifth division.<br /><br />For a complete background story of Maradona jr, I would recommend you to take a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Sinagra">Wikipedia</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1140516474466048152006-02-21T01:49:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:26:43.607-08:00Totti and the Soccer World CupEverybody here in Italy is really upset about the serious injury that could block <a href="http://www.francescototti.com/">Francesco Totti</a>, the Italian Soccer star, playing for Italy at the <a href="http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/">2006 Soccer World Cup</a>.<br />The Roma playmaker got a tackle from behind by <a href="http://www.empolifc.com/scheda.php?id=53">Richard Vanigli</a> and twisted his ankle during a game with Empoli.<br /><br />Initial assessments said the player would not see action again for two or three months.<br />I am positive that our capitan will recover from that injury and he will be ready for the game, but I am really questioning why <a href="http://www.aia-figc.it/">Italian referees</a> do not punish with harsh punishements (i.e. red cards) these kind of behaviours.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1105018278567999192005-01-06T05:23:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:27:18.055-08:00Maradona jr and Campeoni, CampioniNo surprise: finally Mr. Diego Armando Maradona Jr. has been transferred from <a href="http://www.genoacfc.it/">Genoa CFC</a> to Cervia. He is going to play for the Reality show Campeoni....<br /><br />Diego Armando Maradona Jr was born in Naples, September the 20th 1986. He plays as a midfield. Hw used to play for Naples, in different Youth teams. He moves to Genoa in August 2004, where he was with the "Primavera" team.<br />On Monday 10th, he will be presented at the <a href="http://www.italia1.com/">Italia 1</a> Show.<br /><br />Surely he will make the difference in the competition, but the real question is whether Diego is able to survive to the pression....<br />PS: his fans club is at Diego <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Maradona_jr/">Maradona jr</a>. fc.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1104924820719359532005-01-05T03:16:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:35:24.076-08:00Lost in translationI am just wondering whether Mr. Blatter is planning to introduce new technology into the International soccer. What he said was not clear to everybody. Mr Ian Christon, Football League representative, said at <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/4148349.stm">BBC</a> "His comments were misrepresented". Did he say it because of this image? A second question is: should the Fantasy soccer players be rewarded for this "missing goal"?<br /><br /><img src="http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/goal/20050105/10/779387657.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1104865806906037172005-01-04T11:07:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:35:03.277-08:00Let's give the Inter jersey to this guySomebody has posted this funny story about the funniest <a href="http://www.campioniilsogno.com/">Campioni</a> player, Mr. Gullo. He or she want him playing with Inter at the end of the season. Would that guy have played with Basel, it could have made sense...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.macchianera.net/archives/2004/10/in_gullo_alla_b.html" target="_new"><img src="http://www.sestaluna.com/wordpress/images/gullo_01.gif" alt="Let's give the Inter jersey to this guy" border="0" />Gullo</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1104176019849851842004-12-27T11:21:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:34:46.876-08:00Litmanen and his fax<a href="http://www.gazzetta.it/">Italian sport press</a> has declared that in January 2005, <a href="http://www.livornocalcio.it/">Livorno football club</a> can enroll the Finnish soccer star <a href="http://www.litmanen.com/">Jari Litmanen</a>, 33 years old.<br /><br />Litmanen played with Ajax Amsterdam, Barcelona, Liverpool and now is playing with Helsinki. Gazzetta claims that Jari has sent to Livorno a fax with his money requests. The team reached the Serie A for the first time since the 60's, has limited budget but is eager to hire this soccer phenomenon. I am sure that Livorno fans will be delighted to see Jari in January. Hopefully he is not injured, as it could be. <a href="http://it.seriea.fantasysports.yahoo.com/">Mister Yahoo </a>is also waiting for you, Jari....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975003.post-1100429141482674982004-11-14T02:42:00.000-08:002009-01-10T01:35:40.828-08:00Campioni, il sogno (Champions, the dream)I am watching a new <a href="http://www.campioniilsogno.com/">reality show</a> about Soccer. <a href="http://www.universotoro.altervista.org/Storia/Graziani.htm">Ciccio Graziani</a> (<a href="http://www.nazionaleitalianacalcio.it/engspagna82.htm">World Cup winner</a> in 1982) is the coach.<br /><br />It is a great game. I am amazed to notice that many Campioni players have their own fans club.<br /><br />The most popular players are <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Giuffrida/">Giuffrida</a> (92 enrollments, with also a <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianGiuffrida/">second fans club</a> (31) and a <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianGiuffrida_TheBest/">third fans club</a> (5)), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/GiorgioAlfieri/">Alfieri</a> (159) and <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/francesco_gullo/">Francesco Gullo</a> (110), who pretended to have played with FC Basel in Switzerland and in Champions League in 2002 (a funny website explaining what was going on is <a href="http://www.francescogullo.subito.cc/">Francesco Gullo at Basilea</a>, Basel FC!!!), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/gianfranco_apicerni_fc/">Apicerni</a> (117 enrollments) and <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Maradona_jr/">Maradona jr</a>.<br /><br />Other players are: <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/giacomodinnocenzofc/">D'Innocenzo</a>, the goalie (76), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/emanuele_morelli/">Emanuele Morelli</a> (58), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/claudiomoschino/">Claudio Moschino</a>, the most talented player at Campioni (34), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Fabio_Borriello/">Fabio Borriello</a> (108) who has a brother playing in Serie A, <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/magicolorenzo/">Spagnoli</a> (53), who is credited to be one of the three winners, <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianARRIETA/">Christian Arrieta</a> (55), a newcomer who arrived to improve the quality of the defence team and is pretty popular (see also <a href="http://www.arrietachristian.com/">Christian</a>'s new website, <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/FabioMaffini/">Fabio Maffini</a> (82), Matteo <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/MatteoDomeniconi/">Domeniconi</a> (21), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/CiroOlivieri22fc/">Ciro Olivieri</a> (80), who is now injuried and not available anymore until the end of the soccer season, <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Gualtieri21/">Gualtieri</a>, the "Cobra" (29), <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/zoranljubisicfc/">Zoran Ljubisic</a> (5) and <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/Marco_Pepe/">Marco Pepe</a> (10). Two Brasilians are also in the team: <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/mariobordignonfanclub/">Mario Bordignon</a>, (3) who already played in the third division in Portugal and the ever-injured <a href="http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/jefferson_fansclub/">Jefferson</a> (5).<br /><br />I am just wondering why Matteo Bondi has no fans club. Do you have the answer?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0