Posts Tagged ‘udinese’
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Football manages to restore some of its pride
0May 15, 2012 by Adam Gray
Somewhere amongst all the headlines made by Yaya Toure’s cameo performance that effectively sealed Manchester City’s name on the Premier League title at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, the undercard role turned its teary eye into the direction of sentiment as they fittingly ended a superb campaign by unveiling a bronze statue of Sir Bobby Robson outside the Sports Direct Arena. The footballing plotlines barely saw time to stand and reflect on the symbolism of this behemoth of footballing gentry that served the club and the sport so dignifiedly throughout his life that was regrettably cut short to cancer at the age of 76.
Category Premier League | Tags: bobby robson, Bolton Wanderers, Ched Evans, fa cup, Fabrice Muamba, manchester city, Newcastle United, premier league, serie a, Sheffield United, statue, Torino, udinese
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The Scudetto is Won or Lost in the Provinces
0May 5, 2012 by Jeremy Lim | Italian Football Editor
All it would take for Juventus to allow A.C. Milan right back into the title race on a whim was one false step, and it occured when Lecce’s Andrea Bertolacci was allowed to capitalize on the rarest of errors from Juventus custodian Gianluigi Buffon to score the equalizer and earn his relegation-battling side a gutsy 1-1 draw with the league leaders at the Juventus Stadium in Turin.
Category Serie A | Tags: Calcio, inter, Jeremy Lim, juventus, lazio, Lecce, milan, Milan derby, provinces, scudetto, serie a, udinese, Week 36, Week 37
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Pay Piermario Morosini Respect That Really Means Something
0April 16, 2012 by Jeremy Lim | Italian Football Editor
The unfortunate passing of Piermario Morosini during the Serie B match between Pescara and Livorno on the 14th of April 2012 marked one of the saddest deaths in the world of sports. Only 25 years of age, Morosini collapsed on the pitch and was rushed to a local hospital, only to eventually be pronounced dead.
Many went as far as to say it was destiny that called the young man home, with doctors stating not even a defibrillator could have saved him from either the cardiac arrests or aneurysm that are claimed to have taken his life. Morosini’s colleagues lent their voice in chorus to praise the memory of the late player, who had lost both his parents and younger brother to tragic circumstances, yet ‘just wanted a little happiness’ and never let his troubled past prevent him from having ‘a smile on his face’.
Category Serie A | Tags: cardiac arrest, heart attack, Jeremy Lim, Livorno, morosini, Pescara, piermario, piermario morosini, tragedy, udinese
