Arati, Avramov, Aya, Bolatti, Carraro, De Silvestri, Donadel, Frey, Gilardino, Gobbi, Jovetic, Keirrison, Kroldrup, Ljajic, Marchionni, Miranda, Montolivo, Natali, Vargas, Zanetti.
Pasqual, Santana, Comotto, Gambit and Felipe are all hurt so the list is full of babies, but Vargas managed to get fit enough to get called up, putting a damper on the ( Read more... )

•Gila started, played an hour, and assisted on Iaquinta's goal in the Azzurri's 2-0 win over Bulgaria while, elsewhere in the group, Jojo was busy playing all of the 1-1 draw with Cyprus which eliminated Montenegro from WC qualifying. Vargas was suspended because of accumulated yellow cards and was back in Florence while Peru were losing 3-1 to ( Read more... )

•Last week in New York, Mutu used Steve Nash's Showdown in Chinatown [There are pictures all over the interwebs of the event, including here and here.] to test out his surgically repaired knee and elbow. Because he's a good boy, he wore his elbow brace, but there was nothing on his knee and he scored two goals, talked to his old Inter homies, and ( Read more... )

•In last week's internationals: Kuzi started and played all 90 minutes for Serbia in their 2-0 win over the Faroes, Vargas started but got hurt and left early in the first half as Peru lost 0-1 to Colombia, and Melo started, went all 90 minutes, and assisted on the winning goal in Brazil's 2-1 win over Paraguay. The Italians played a couple ( Read more... )

•I lied about Vargas being captain, but he did start for Peru, scored their only goal with a sweet free kick, and hit the post with another one later.

•Mutu's episode of I Signori del Calcio is here, in all its glory -- it's about 55 minutes long, full of relaxed Adi and featuring a lot of old footage from back in the dizay in Romania and at Inter ( Read more... )

•First, a quick roundup of internationals: Melo played all 90 minutes in Brazil's 4-0 win over Uruguay, Monty and Gambit both started Italy's 3-0 friendly win over N. Ireland (Gambit went all 90 minutes, while Monty was subbed at half), Jorgy not only started for and captained Denmark in their 1-0 win over Sweden, but also played in the ball that ( Read more... )

•Internationals went slightly less well this round: Jorgy (who was captain again in Denmark's 3-0 win over Malta and was terribly modest about it), Jojo (Georgia 0-0 Montenegro) and Melo (who scored the third goal in Brazil's 3-0 win over Peru) all went the full 90 minutes for their teams. Gambit and Kuzi both made the bench for theirs, while Monty ( Read more... )

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I'm about to get on a plane, but a few quick things before I do/my battery dies.

•Papa Waigo's last interview before he left for Lecce was amazingly positive, he seems like such an unrelentingly good person. Score many goals, Papa.

•After a lot of back-and-forth between Bologna and Samp (Fiorentina had an agreement with Samp, he had one with ( Read more... )

•First, a couple videos from the official site: 1)The return from Spain, featuring airport footage (Seb shaved!) and a really boring interview with one of the staff, and 2)Wednesday's training video, featuring emo keepers, Mutu getting another Romanian POY award, and a random interview with the team chef.

•Mutu had a pre-birthday presser [video] ( Read more... )