The Lost Boys
By: Kshitiz |
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Old Players, hot chicks and other random stuff
Since we have a week long international break, and the huge number of Samp players making it to the national squads, I have nothing good to do. Got rid of Lambda Calculus and Parallel Algorithms earlier this week, so, really, I have nothing to do. Now I’m going to have a look around for old Sampdoria players, active at other clubs as coaches or players,inactive, or partially active( as in being SKY pundits), their impact and what they meant to us. I will cover our current players, after I’ve done sufficient former Samp-men. And the usual random stuff including hot chicks and music in the end.
However, I would like to draw attention to a consecutive 5 matchday bulldozing schedule against some top sides.
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The Turin Tragedy
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Result
Torino 1 Sampdoria 0
(Corini 88′)
There is no better way to say this, we were the poorer team, didnt dominate play, we were down one man, and were made to look like this stupid rabbit in front of Toro, but still Mazzari described this as a good performance. In fact, he considered this as one of the best performances of the season. If that is so, especially against teams that are perennial relegation fodder, then we have a very tough year ahead of us, forget the talk of Europe. Dropping points against them is simply inexcusable, either home or away.
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Match Preview: Torino Calcio vs UC Sampdoria
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Match Details
When: 7/10/07, 3 pm ( 6:30 at my place)
Where: Stadio Olimpico, Turin aka The bull stable of Turin
Last Season’s Meetings
Last year, the two sides met twice, and scored 1-0 victories over each other at their respective homes. Novellino was the coach of the Doriani ( Any guesses where he is now?) , and the only thing consistent about Samp was that they were inconsistent throughout the whole year. The first meeting ended in a 1-0 win for Toro after a highly dubious late penalty awarded to them. In the second match, we didn’t have the regular first XI. So Novellino gave a start to the highly talented Vladimir Son-of-a-Gun Koman, who immediately proved his class by sending a superb through ball to Bonazzoli who had no problems in finishing from close range.
The season ended on a not so good note for us, and we lost Quagliarella and Parola, two of our most consistent performers over the last year. Still we can take heart from the fact that we quite unlucky over the whole season, and atleast the better team than Torino over the two matches
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The Danish Disaster
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The Italian Perspective
This is my first post, and it comes at a time where Sampdoria should be fuming, as well as hiding from shame after the Denmark Debacle.This may seem like starting on the wrong foot, and crying over spilled milk, but their is no hiding from the fact that Samp were dumped by some B grade danish team I didnt even know existed. The general mid-table Italian mentality is to refrain from starting the best team in the UEFA cup, and giving youngsters a chance. The results are all in front of us, only 1 Italian team is left in the Competition, and that too a scudetto dark horse that managed to get over a Dutch Mid-Tabler only after penalties. Is it something wrong with Italian football?? The worl cup and champions league speak volumes about italian football. What is wrong, is the mentality of giving even Coppa Italia a higher preference than the UEFA cup. This seems a bit hyprocritic , since all year round teams state their objective of reaching Europe, but when they actually reach there they dont seem to care a bit.
What did Sampdoria do (or didn’t do) over the two legs
The Blucherati started very well in the first leg. Gennaro “Matrix-HeadButter” DelVecchio banging in the first goal. But after that everything started to go wrong, the danes hitting two within a short span. It was left to Monica Belluci’s Younger Brother ( Just Kidding) to save some blushes, but the damage had already been done. The little aeroplane had a glorious chance to win it in the final minutes, but he couldnt, and by then Erik Hamrén’s men knew they had one foot in the next round . Mazzari calmed some tempers by claiming they were the better side by some margin and were guilty of missing quite a few chances. It was left to him to prove his doubters wrong by winning in the away leg, which everyone knew was going to be tough. Mazzari is, however used to steering his teams away from the whirpool. He managed to get Reggina stay in the topflight, with the 19 point deduction,which is like making Minardi win F1, well almost.
In the second leg, the starting XI was
1 Luca Castellazzi
3 Reto Ziegler
4 Sergio Volpi
6 Stefano Lucchini
11 Claudio Bellucci
14 Luigi Sala
16 Hugo Armando Campagnaro
17 Angelo Palombo
21 Paolo Sammarco
29 Andrea Caracciolo
99 Antonio Cassano
We had Talentino starting after a long time with Caracciolo, but nothing decisive came out of him. I was banking on Reto Ziegler, our english import , to become the unlikely saviour, but it was not to be our day. This seems a pretty good starting XI, except for the fact that it didnt score any goals, even though we have almost 6 strikers in the squad(7 if you count the Cocaine guy, but he is not coming back soon, is he??) and plenty of midfield options. I am being frank, personally I don’t like Caracciolo one bit, he is the Italian Crouch. Sure he is tall, but he has nothing else in his armoury. Except for the brief period at Brescia, he has never come good, not in Serie A atleast. He was woefully out of sorts when at Palermo. We had a great 3-0 victory over Cristiano ” Chin-Man” Doni and his boys last weekend, and I hoped the momentum would have carried into the Aalfborg game, but all reason failed . Now we have another tricky encounter coming up, away to The Granata, and our hope of retaining atleast a European spot rests on our ability to defeat teams lying lower than us in the table. Right now, the pipe smoking sailor would be so pissed off.
Some Random Stuff
a) Chievo Verona’s promising youngster Victor Obinna miraculously escaped death after his vehicle did somersaults on a highway. Curiosly, this all happened 100 metres away from where Jason Mayele died a tragic death.
b) Gennaro Delvechhio tries to prove he is no less a talent than the baldy.
Nostalgia!!!
c)A picture of our very own Antonio Cassano, doing, dunno what!!!
Underwear troubles
d)Just to end on a nice note, here’s the screamer Bellucci scored against Siena. If he keeps on going like this, he will atleast end up with 15 goals.
I’ll be back before the Toro game for a preview
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