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Titolo: La seria A vista dall'Inghilterra

http://football.guardian.co.uk/continental/story/0,8018,1393230,00.html
Twenty years, 24 centimetres and a two-point gap at the top
Paolo Maldini notches up two decades at Milan
James Richardson
Tuesday January 18, 2005
On Sunday night, Serie A reached the halfway mark (19 played, 19 to go) with
yet more drama in the Juventus v Milan title tussle and plenty of big,
important sounding numbers. Let's start with the 20 years: back on January
20 1985, while teens across Europe frugged merrily to the sounds of Rupert
and the Frog Chorus and the original Band Aid, a young fella named Paolo
Maldini was taking off his tracksuit in Udine, preparing to make his Serie A
debut at the tender age of 16.
Two decades and 437 Serie A matches on, he's still going strong: this season
he's Milan's most-used player and this Sunday as he led the Rossoneri out
for his anniversary match (against Udinese once again), it was to the
appropriate ovation from the San Siro crowd. "There is no greater joy," he
observed afterwards, "than to be allowed 20 years with your team, the team
of your home town." Admittedly it's the kind of thing we hear from Anfield
all the time, but the Italians still found it quite touching.
Ovations aside, there wasn't much room for sentiment in Sunday's game; Milan
were trying to both narrow Juve's four point lead and fend off a Udinese
side coming up fast behind them in third place. Udinese had won last
season's encounter here and nine minutes in, it looked like déjà vu as the
visitors took an early lead - Antonio Di Natale turning and half-volleying a
spectacular goal in from the edge of the area. Milan were stunned but soon
fought back with a series of sweeping moves upfield, and half an hour in
came the equaliser; Kaká's low cross skipping past Hernan Crespo and on to
Andriy Shevcheno for a tap in at the far post.
The second half had barely kicked off before Marek Jankulowski gifted Milan
the lead with an own goal on the scale of Prince Harry turning up in a Di
Canio outfit; the Udinese defender meeting Clarence Seedorf's speculative
cross with a cracking header into his own net. Jankulowski is said to be
heading for Milan come June, and he certainly was in this match. Now a goal
down, Udinese kept their heads up and even hit the post through Barcelona
target Vincenzo Iaquinta but it wasn't to be; come the final minute Kaká
burst through a pack of players to slot home Milan's third and seal the win.
"Regardless of what Juve do tonight I'm delighted!" declared tubby tactician
Carlo Ancelotti post game. "This was our best performance so far this
season."
Milan's win meant Juventus were just one lonely point ahead as they took the
field over at Cagliari, a ground where only Milan had previously managed an
away win. Manager Fabio Capello chose to start with David Trezeguet (back
after three months out with an injured shoulder) upfront alongside Zlatan
Ibrahimovic, benching Alex Del Piero (and if, after 17 substitutions in 18
appearances, Alex needed any further clue as to what Capello thought of him,
he surely has it now). As it turned out, a rusty-looking Trezeguet and
Cagliari's David Suazo between them blew all the early opportunities to
score, leaving the game to settle into the typical format of Juventus
matches - the Turin giants slowly smothering the life out of the opposition
and anyone lucky enough to be watching, while simultaneously nicking a
dubious goal.
In fact, Trezeguet himself featured in Sunday's dodgy moment, playing the
ball on for Pavel Nedved from a yard or two offside before the Czech's cross
met Emerson's head for a close range opening goal. One-nil down, the
Sardinians struggled to find any response until two late substitutions
changed the game's momentum. For Cagliari, Antonio Langella replaced Suazo
and forced two fine saves from the world's best goalie, Gigi Buffon.
Then Juventus threw on midfielder Stephen Appiah, who trumped an
error-filled appearance by giving the ball away, just outside the Juve area,
one minute from time. Cagliari gratefully sent a last chance, hail Mary
cross winging into the box where - lo and behold - Gianfranco Zola headed
just inside the post for the draw. Unsurprisingly Cagliari's Sant'Elia
stadium erupted at this most unexpected of equalisers - the ball was some
eight feet up in the air when the 5'6 Gianfranco struck it. Moreover, he
outleapt Jonathan Zebina, who's almost a foot taller than him, in the
process. "It's like Pelé's header over Burgnich at Mexico '70!" declared the
Gazzetta Dello Sport the next day, although Billy the Fish may have been the
closer analogy.
Juventus now find themselves just two points clear of Milan, having won just
one of their last four league games. The next round sees them host the very
beatable Brescia while Milan travel to Livorno, a side revitalised by the
arrival of former Rossonero Roberto Donadoni as manager. Last Sunday Livorno
were 3-1 victors over Messina, a result which took them to the lofty heights
of, er, equal 10th in the process.
Meanwhile, a possibly even more eye-catching encounter awaits over at the
Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, where Fiorentina take on the Roma of
Totti, Cassano and above all Vincenzo Montella. Montella's now Serie A's top
scorer, which is ironic since Roma tried to peddle him to all and sundry
just last summer. Fortunately he's not bitter, and last Sunday scored
another two at Chievo to bring Roma back from 2-0 down. The second goal was
his best yet - a Totti cross from the other side of the area met by the
'little aeroplane' with an overhead volley while falling over backwards.
Voilá!
You can catch more from the smokin' Montella - not to mention the latest
antics from Totti and Cassano (although clearly I just have) - when British
Eurosport bring you the whole of Sunday night's game live from Florence on,
er, Sunday night. Otherwise, see you back here next week for all the
excitement of round 20, on your very own computer monitor. God bless us all.
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 Twenty years, 24 centimetres and a two-point gap at the top
[SNIP]
Oggi ho problemi con l'italiano, non riesco a leggere il tuo breve post (7 
KB).
-- 
We must push on, recent it seems,
we must push on, we must push on,
though we bleed, we must push on, we must push on...
Dredg - Same ol' road 

 Twenty years, 24 centimetres
Freddy Adu? 

 Freddy Adu?
Rocco Siffredi qualche anno fa.
Ciao, Gionni
 
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 Rocco Siffredi qualche anno fa.
Che è successo?? gli è calato??
Marco

 Marco
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 25.
Anche di questo se ne occupa l' IFFHS o è un sondaggio UEFA?
Ciao
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L' intelligenza è  una pianta che va curata continuamente; dovreste vedere
come è bello il mio bonsai

 Ciao
Ciao, Gionni
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