Baseless Rumors and Other News
By: Johonna | October 9th, 2008
Who do you think Nico is giving the stink-eye to?
Most of the squad is off on national duty, leaving only the wounded and Crespo behind. Well, ok, so there are a few more (Cruz, Cordoba, Toldo, Orlandoni), but there are so few left in Appiano Gentile that Mou has them training with the Primavera team. Mancini has gotten his first call up for the Brazilian national team while Quaresma has found his way back to the Portugal team.
Here is who is going where to play what:
Argentina: Nicolas Burdisso, Esteban Cambiasso, Javier Zanetti
Argentina v Uruguay (11 October in Buenos Aires);
Chile v Argentina (15 October in Santiago del Cile)
Brazil: Adriano, Julio Cesar, Maicon, Mancini
Venezuela v Brazil (12 October in San Cristobal);
Brazil v Colombia (15 October in Rio de Janeiro)
Romania: Cristian Chivu
Romania v France (11 October in Constanta)
France: Patrick Vieira
Romania v France (11 October in Constanta)
France v Tunisia (friendly, 14 October in Paris)
Ghana: Sulley Muntari
Ghana v Lesotho (12 October in Kumasi)
Nigeria: Victor Obinna
Nigeria v Sierra Leone (11 October in Abuja)
Portugal: Quaresma
Sweden v Portugal (11 October in Solna)
Portugal v Albania (15 October in Braga)
Serbia: Dejan Stankovic
Serbia v Lithuania (11 October in Belgrade)
Austria v Serbia (15 October in Vienna)
Sweden: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Sweden v Portugal (11 October in Solna)
Italy U21: Mario Balotelli, Francesco Bolzoni
Italy U21 v Israel U21 (11 October in Ancona)
Israel U21 v Italy U21 (15 October in Tel Aviv)
Oh, and Davide Santon played in the Itlay U19 Euro Qualifier against Russia on October 7. He is back now (Russia won).
And now for a little bookkeeping – everyone get out your calenders
The people who set the match times for the Serie A have been busy and here is our revised fixture list for the next month or so:
Sunday October 19 – Roma-Inter (19.30)
Wednesday Octover 22 – Inter-Anorthosis (20:45)
Sunday October 26 – Inter-Genoa (15:00)
Wednesday October 29 – Fiorentina-Inter (20:30)
Saturday November 1 – Reggina-Inter (17.00)
Tuesday November 4 – Anorthosis-Inter (20:45)
Sunday November 9 – Inter-Udinese
Saturday November 15 – Palermo-Inter (19.30)
Saturday November 22 – Inter-Juventus (19.30)
Wednesday November 26 – Inter-Panathinaikos (20:45)
Sunday November 30 – Inter-Napoli (15:00)
And now the fun stuff:
Without the structure of weekly games, sport’s “journalists” let their minds wander and we end up with all sorts of utter nonsense published as “news.” Just for fun, I thought we might go through a few of them.
L’Equipe says that Müller-Wohlfart, the doctor for Bayern Munich, offered Patick Vieira a shot of Actovegin to help heal his injury during the Euro 2008 tournament. Actovegin is made of calf blood and is illegal in France. The good news is, Patrick refused the treatment as did the doctor for the French national team. So the big story is Vieira was injured and wanted to play in the Euros so he asked his footballer friends if they had any tips to help him get better faster. A teammate told him about the calf blood stuff and the French team doctor said it was not allowed. Wow, what a huge scandal.
Moving on…
Goal.com says Tuttosport says that Aquilani is on his way to Inter in some sordid swap with Crespo. Of course, they also said that “neither club is willing to shed any light on the matter.” Probably because it is utter bull crap.
It turns out Secco is a spy for Inter and has been purposefully sabotaging Juve for years. Secco unwittingly told an undercover reporter disguised as Moratti that: “We are really destroying them, and the funniest thing is no one has the foggiest idea. They all think I am just stupid, they have no inkling that I am deliberately buying rubbish players.”
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Ok, so that one is, admittedly, a fabrication, but it sure was funny.
Ooo, here is another good one: apparently we are going to trade Cruz and Cambiasso for Hamisk. Or, we may trade Cruz and sell Cambiasso to get the 100 million Euro Inter would need for Hamsik. wow.
And this is true but wacky:
Adriano’s house near Como was burgled during the Bologna game last week. The thieves even went so far to rip his safe from the wall. The authorities are looking at CCTV footage to try to find the culprits.
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After all of that, we need a little something to lift our spirits. I was scrolling through the photo archives on the Inter web page (I do that a lot – it is sort of a problem for me) and I found this beauty from May 2007. It kinda sets a person’s heart all a-flutter. He’s a dirty, dirty boy.
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Ragazzi, ci sono solo due parole: Forza Inter
Oh my goodness… I just found this on Marco Materazzi’s blog… Who do you suppose is behind the camera? (scroll down to see the photo)
Boy’s night out or man date? you decide.
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thats not gay at all. i mean hey, 3 guys could go out on a man date without it being gay. lol funny pic. there is one on matrix’s blog with them doing a tangled wine sip thing. its quite disturbing.
this week is boring. nothing to do but look at durdy pics of JC and watch countless youtube vidz.
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JC reminds me of Vince Vaughn in a way. And yeah, those are some nice pictures.
I’ve been wondering how the current world economic situation might affect the Serie A. There has been talk about salary caps and even throwing clubs with excessive debt (hullo, EPL) out of UEFA competitions.
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Galliani said that Serie A clubs are not going to be nearly as badly effected as most other leagues, the article is today on channel 4 football italia check it out, though i try not to believe too much of what comes out of Galliani’s mouth.
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Salary caps will never happen…
Most Serie A clubs to my knowledge are not anywhere as bad as other leagues, particularly the EPL, with Roma the exception.
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very interesting. Here is the link:
http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/oct11b.htmlI also dont think that salary caps will happen.
What this might do, though, is bring clubs back down to earth in terms of transfer fees and player-contract valuations. Things are simply out of control in that respect.
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And Kirby, I think you mean this photo: http://www.inter.it/aas/img/107050-480.jpg
With the champagne and the package it looks for all the world like Marco, Dejan, and Christian just got married.
Hey, I have no problem with that. They are all consenting adults.
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I think the transfer fees will fall, but if so only because the EPL and Spain stop spilling out so much. We all knew Serie A demanded clubs prove their financial stability, never considered the other leagues have nothing of the sort.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/SerieA/Squadre/Inter/Primo_Piano/2008/10/11/crespo.shtml
Interesting interview with Crespo here. He basically said he wants to leave Inter (without saying it) but he did it the right way, saying it’s the coaches decisions and things are going well but he still wants to play. Interesting he says Mourinho is a great coach but Ancelotti is an “ideal one.” Why did he leave Chelsea for Milan in the first place, did Mourinho not favor him there?Posted from
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No. Mou never liked Crespo. That is one of the reasons he ended up back in Italy. Having Mourinho show up at Inter must seem like a bad dream for Crespo. To be fair, he has gotten a chance – 21 whole minuets of league play time (plus friendlies).
I just hope he finds somewhere nice to go – I have always really liked the guy.
I dont think there is the slightest chance of Crespo making the cross-town switch. What do they need another forward for?
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And more gossip just in:
It seems our young Balotelli has been seen about town with one Costanza Caracciolo, one of the new veline on Striscia la Notizia (of golden tapir fame).
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Yeah, that’s funny in a horrifying way. You move to the continent to get away, and guess who follows. I doubt he’d move to Milan either, god knows they have enough aging players in the squad. One of the best goalscorers in the world no doubt, and he’s always succeeded in Italy, so I hope he stays here.
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Rather than consider the, lets face it, completely fabricated speculation of who we would buy this winter, how about considering if we are going to enter the winter market in the first place?
Do we even need to? Is the team, right now, Scudetto/Champions League worthy?
If not us, then who would be in a shopping mood?
Juventus? Roma (can they afford it?)? Napoli? Lazio? Fiorentina?
Do these teams look like they will meet the goals they may have set for the season?
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Half time report: Ibra is on the field for sweden, Quaresma on the bench. Ibra has managed to pick up a yellow and the score is 0 all.
Full time report: match ends 0-0 and both Ibra and Quaresma pick up yellow cards.
Our boy Obinna scored for Nigeria – they beat Sierra Leone 4-1
Chivu is playing for Romania right now (despite his injury), France and Romania are tied 2-2. No Vieira.
Muntari scored for Ghana who beat Lesotho 3-0.
Stankovic played for Serbia and also picked up a yellow. Serbia beat Lithuania 3-0.
Neither Balotelli nor Bolzoni were on the squad for the Italy’s U21 Euro match today against Israel. The game finished in a 0-0 draw. Apparently Balotelli has the flu and has been running a fever for a couple of days.
Zanetti, Cambiasso, and Burdisso played a full 90 against Uruguay today. Argentina won (2-1). I watched the first half and all three were playing excellently. Interestingly, the game finished in a yellow card-fest and half the Argentinian squad ended with yellows. Luckily, our guys were in the half that did not get cards.
Brazilians play this tomorrow.
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Nice work Johonna. Good meeting you the other night in class! This is so cool.
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Thanks, Kenny.
See you Tuesday!
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I vote Deki. Because everyone know that Nico doesn’t like Deki.
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Can I please ask you all a question? How long does Crespo’s contract at Inter last?
He had a 5 year contract with Chelsea.. 2 of those years were in London, one at AC Milan and 2 at Inter. I thought his contract expired last summer but I guess it didn’t. I figured maybe this upcoming summer but there are still rumors indicating that he is still under contract at Inter for more than another year.
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this is crespo’s last year under contract with Inter. His contract expires next summer.
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Julio Cesar. Forrever is a good keeper
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