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From: Saverio Cittadini <sc4n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Fwd: NEVER SAY GOAL


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Subject: NEVER SAY GOAL
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Sorry for being late with this, but I was quite busy this week... Here
is my excerpt from "Mai dire gol", related to week 12 of the Italian
league.

WORST GOAL OF THE DAY
Ancona's 3rd goal vs. Inter, scored by Lupo. There was an attempted
backpass by Paganin to the goalie Abate (who had replaced Zenga), but
the ball stopped in a puddle (the pitch was very wet). Detari arrived
first on it, despite Paganin's attempt, and so the Hungarian could go
alone towards the goal. He dribbled Abate easily, and was going to send
the ball into the open goal, when De Agostini, who had come back very
quickly, brought him down with a hard foul from behind. It should have
been a penalty kick: but the ball rolled slowly towards Lupo, who had
no problems in scoring from less than 2 meters with an open goal...
Moreover, Lupo wasn't able to control his speed, and after scoring he
almost crashed into the goalpost !

WORST 10 PLAYERS OF THE LEAGUE
This time the Gialappas, instead of giving the worst line-up, listed
the worst 10 players independently on their positions. Here is the
list, from 10th to 1st:
10) Casiraghi (Juventus)
 9) Grandini (Foggia)
 8) Careca (Napoli)
 7) Corradini (Napoli)
 6) Caniggia (Roma)
 5) Sivebaek (Pescara)
 4) Alfieri (Pescara)
 3) Fornaciari (Foggia)
 2) Muzzi (Roma)
and finally...
 1) PANCEV (Inter)
Yes, the Macedonian forward is still the worst player of the league !
When he arrived in Italy, he was nicknamed "The Cobra", since he was a
terrific striker; now the Gialappas call him "The Green Lizard"...

TOP NON-SCORERS
Player standings:
Batistuta (Fiorentina)  7
Lombardo (Sampdoria)    7
Aguilera (Torino)       5
Oliveira (Cagliari)     4
Pancev (Inter)          4
Schillaci (Inter)       4
Careca (Napoli)         4
Team standings:
Inter           14
Juventus        14
Sampdoria       13
Milan           11
Napoli          11
(Pescara is last with only 1 chance wasted)

MISCELLANEOUS THINGS
Sven Goran Eriksson, Sampdoria's coach, is certainly well prepared.
Before a game, he makes sure he knows the opponents very well, as
showed by the following dialogue he had with his assistant coach
Sergio Santarini during the game vs. Atalanta (a close-up of the
camera allowed to read the lips of the two):
E: Who's this one ?
S: This one... this one is Ganz.
E: Ah. Ganz. He plays very well, indeed. And that one is Minaudo,
   isn't he ?
S: No, that's Rambaudi. Minaudo is the one who has the ball now...
[Ganz and Rambaudi are the two Atalanta forwards, and they are both
playing very well this season, scoring many goals; Minaudo is a
defensive midfielder. Atalanta won the game 3-2 with 2 goals scored
by Ganz and 1 by Rambaudi]

CONFRONTS
I already reported on the confusion generated by Fiorentina's 2nd
goal vs. Juventus. Indeed, it was an own goal by Sartor, as it was
clearly showed by the camera behind the goal. Nevertheless, on "90mo
Minuto" it was claimed that the ball had hit Batistuta's chest before
passing the goal line (a wrong impression, due to a weird spin of the
ball), and thus they awarded the goal to the Argentinian; and many
newspapers reported it this way.
What the paper "Tuttosport" did, anyway, was quite funny. The title
of an article said: "Batistuta didn't realize that he was the scorer",
hinting that Batistuta had scored indeed. Then, in the article, there
was an interview to Batistuta who claimed: "Who, me ? No, I haven't
touched the ball at all, I'm sure of this !", and it was hinted that
this was the truth...

FOREIGN WONDERS
In the '89-'90 season, Genoa chose 3 Uruguayan as foreigners: one of
them was very successful (Aguilera), another one was not so brilliant
(Paz), but here we talk of the 3rd one: defensive midfielder Perdomo.
When he arrived, the newspapers said his better points were that he
was a real fighter, one of those players that never give up; and his
terrific long-distance shot. Well, Perdomo tried his shot several
times: indeed, he used to hit the ball with great force, but unfortunately
he was never able to find the goal... (actually, the ball used to end
up quite far from it !) And indeed, he was a fighter: many opponents'
ankles remember his hard fouls; strangely enough, referees didn't like
his way of playing, so poor Perdomo was often cautioned or sent off...
His rivals had a great respect of him; for example, Boskov (at that
time Sampdoria's coach) said of him: "Perdomo ? My dog would play
better than him !". At the end of season, Genoa tried to sell Perdomo
to at least 10 different clubs, mainly in England and France, but no
one wanted him...
Perdomo's statistics:
Games played:                   25
Goals scored:                    0
Games of suspension:             7
Of which still to serve:         2


Well, this is it for this time...
  Bye,
   Saverio

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