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Player Focus: Taarabt Starting to Prove Doubters Wrong in Milan

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Player Focus: Taarabt Starting to Prove Doubters Wrong in Milan “I must have seen more QPR games than any other director,” smiled Adriano Galliani, the Milan chief executive. It wasn’t a thing you ever expected to hear from him. QPR, really? You began to question everything you knew about Galliani. Did the man who once slept with the European C...

Player Focus: How Higuaín Has Covered for Cavani's Absence

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Player Focus: How Higuaín Has Covered for Cavani's Absence In Naples’ Piazza Mercato, the paint isn’t yet dry. You can smell the fumes, still hear the rattle of the spray can. A mural has appeared on one of its walls, signed by the local graffiti artist Raffo. It’s of Gonzalo Higuaín screaming in celebration. Vesuvius erupts with pu...

Player Focus: Is Hernanes the Right Man to Save Inter?

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Player Focus: Is Hernanes the Right Man to Save Inter? As Hernanes drove out of Formello for the last time, he wound down the window to sign some autographs for the Lazio supporters gathered by the roadside. The affection they showed him, even though it was clear he was leaving for Inter, choked the midfielder up. With tears streaming down his face, he ...

Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite

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Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite Before really getting into his Tuesday column in La Repubblica back in early December, Gabriele Romagnoli had a confession to make. “I love Gervinho,” he wrote. “I will not be impartial. It’s necessary to write it with a heart between the subject and the direct object like in...

Player Focus: Matri Primed to Take His Chance at Fiorentina

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Player Focus: Matri Primed to Take His Chance at Fiorentina As Giuseppe Rossi writhed around in pain following a needless challenge from behind by Leandro Rinaudo during the Tuscan derby between Fiorentina and Livorno at the beginning of the year, you feared for him and his team. He was clutching his right knee, the one that had kept him out for 18 months be...

Player Focus: Nainggolan Versatility Improves Strong Roma Midfield

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Player Focus: Nainggolan Versatility Improves Strong Roma Midfield “Good luck brother. Make everyone see that you’re the best. We’ll miss you… Actually, I’ll miss you,” tweeted the Cagliari striker Mauricio Pinilla after he heard the news that his teammate Radja Nainggolan was leaving for Roma. Over the last two and a half years...

Player Focus: Iturbe Proving European Pedigree on Second Chance

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Player Focus: Iturbe Proving European Pedigree on Second Chance Juan Manuel Iturbe was born in Buenos Aires in 1993. He grew up in Villa 21, a slum in the Barracas barrio. His father, also called Juan, was a bricklayer. His mother Miriam helped out in a local pharmacy. They were from Paraguay and had moved to Argentina for a better life.These were hard times. Th...

Team Focus: Torino Rolling Back the Years Under Ventura

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Team Focus: Torino Rolling Back the Years Under Ventura Supporting Torino is often considered an act of remembrance. Many fans live for the past, not for the present. Most days simply don’t compare with yesteryear. Recall, for instance, the romance and the tragedy of the Grande Torino, the genius of Gigi Meroni, their last Scudetto back in 1976, an...

Player Focus: Anti-Regista De Jong Playing his Part for Milan

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Player Focus: Anti-Regista De Jong Playing his Part for Milan “Anti-calcio won this evening,” complained Ajax coach Frank de Boer. “Unfortunately in football, the most beautiful teams don’t always win.”Requiring a victory at San Siro last night to reach the knock-out stages of the Champions League for the first time in six years, ...

Player Focus: Borja Valero - Fiorentina's Midfield Lynchpin

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Player Focus: Borja Valero - Fiorentina's Midfield Lynchpin Fiorentina are warming up under the lights at the Artemio Franchi on Monday night when the diminutive figure of David Pizarro pulls up with a muscle injury. ‘Pek’ had been supposed to captain the team in the absence of the injured Manuel Pasqual against visitors Hellas Verona.Who would c...