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Today in Italy Fiorentina played a charity/exhibition match vs. Amici del Forte, winning 6-2 with braces from Pazzini, Osvaldo and Kuzmanovic. Apparently Prandelli played his usual 4-3-3, but still experimented with the line-up, which included, among other oddities, Marco Donadel as one of his center-backs. The full match report can be found here .
Although a good time was apparently had ...
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‘Cause apparently he now officially owes it to
Chelsea. Of course he will appeal, but this is
a story that just won’t go away. At least he’s now cup-tied so he can’t go pushing to be sold again. To the left see a computer simulation of ...
Ah, the day after. There is nothing quite like the relaxed calm one feels after your club has won a big match. Right now the world feels anew, with the exciting upcoming season stretched out before us like a banquet. In that spirit I wanted to pass along the latest news; nothing earth-shattering here, but something to get us through the day as we move towards the second leg of the Slavia ...
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Today in beautiful Florence the Viola won the first leg of their Champions League qualifier vs. Slavia Prague, thus putting them in excellent position to to win the tie with a solid performance next week, which would allow the club to advance to the lucrative and exciting group stages of the contest. Adrian Mutu scored early (on an apparently sublime free kick), Alberto Gilardino scored ...
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It seems like its been a long time
since I’ve thrown up a match preview, and indeed
it has; I have not written one since the final match of last season vs. Torino, which was eventually won by Pablo Osvaldo’s wonderful bicycle kick. But tomorrow ...
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First off, sorry about the slowdown in posts over the last few days. Work has been a little hectic, and when you throw that in the mix with the general responsibilities of being a Dad to a 9-week old, well…
But it is a big week for us in the Viola. Tuesday is the first leg of our Champion’s League qualifier with Slavia Prague, a match I hope to preview tomorrow night. (Which will be ...
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It’s been an interesting week as Fiorentina continues to prepare for its Champions League Qualifier next week vs. Slavia Prague. They have signed a new player, revisited the contract of an old hand, and played another friendly, looking pretty good in the process.
First off, the Viola played the Romanian club Progresul in a friendly, winning the match 3-1 . Kuzmanovic, Gila, and Pazzini ...
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Coming back from a long weekend often means I find myself at my desk, staring at the pile of work that has built up while I was gone. Today, however, I came back to a bit of good news, that Adrian Mutu has apparently signed an extension that will keep him in Florence until 2012. Now all this silly Roma nonsense can come to an end.
There are still conflicting reports coming out of ...
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As every Fiorentina fan worth his salt now knows, the Viola will be playing Slavia Prague in a two-legged qualifying match to determine entrance to the group stages of the Champions League. The first leg will be played August 12/13 with the return on August 26/27.
In some ways, these games are the biggest of the year for Fiorentina. If they win, they will move onto the group stages, ...
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This evening in front of a packed-to-the-top-row Artemio Franchi, Fiorentina played Barcelona (you’ve probably heard of them) in a friendly match in honor of the anniversary of the death of the Viola’s stadium namesake and the club’s former chairman. Barcelona, by almost every account I’ve read so far, absolutely schooled the Viola on their way to a 3-1 win, suggesting our boys in purple have ...
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Another interesting weekend for Fiorentina. Interesting, but I am ready to leave all this transfer news and gossip in the dust and actually enjoy some meaningful football. Until we get that, however, here is the latest round of “news” around the club.
• First, and perhaps most importantly, Fiorentina played another pre-season match this weekend, beating Figline 1-0 . The lone goal was ...
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Today the bigwigs who run Series A were kind enough to release the coming season’s schedule of games, and it starts with a doozy for our beloved Fiorentina. The get Juve, at home, on the opening weekend of August 31. (It may be played on Saturday or Sunday depending on how the TV scheduling works out.) Aside from having the potential to be a hell of a match, it will allow all of us to test ...
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Since this latest Adrian Mutu-to-Roma fuss kicked up yesterday, I have been waiting to post my thoughts, hoping that it would reach some resolution before I chimed in. It now looks like this may go on for a few more days, so I wanted to get something out to the Viola faithful and give everyone a chance to weigh in.
Let’s step back for a moment; as I write this, late in the evening on ...
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