The 2014/15 Calcio Saga

Casciavit wrote:I haven't seen enough of Bonaventura to make on opinion about him.

But he has provinciale written all over him, from his own last name to the team he played with FFS.

Twoism wrote:Biabiany will get booed massively next game for Parma

Arquitescu wrote:Can someone post a GIF/Vine of SES absolutely murdering three of the Lazio CBs with that trick of his?

“Thank you for coming, for today’s conference, I wanted to clarify my situation. I’ll give you a break-down of the timeline and how I’m feeling, I want to send a message to everybody who follows Roma through all of you (the media). This problem arose around 10 months ago, after the match against Toroino I had pain in my pelvis. I had never had a problem there and thought it’d only be temporary, so I continued to play in the next match against Sassuolo. After that game, I couldn’t even walk anymore. For treatment, we tried an operation in the US but it didn’t produce great results. Then we tried a number of other things in Germany. To be honest with the fans, I still do have some months of physiotherapy. We don’t know how many, with the doctors, we all decided to use electromagnetic currents, which will help me avoid pain. I have to remain of the field, I don’t know for how long, and there’s a chance that I’ll be in pain forever, but I want to heal. I’m still a player, it’s a promise I’ve made to everybody. I will try in every way to play again. The club? The Giallorossi are a big family and treat you not as footballers, but as people. My message to fans is: I won’t give up, I want them to know that. Unfortunately, the problem is I don’t know if I’ll ever overcome this.”

El Shaarawy wrote:

Arquitescu wrote:Can someone post a GIF/Vine of SES absolutely murdering three of the Lazio CBs with that trick of his?

Thanks ES.

SES Cometh our talisman.

Roma President James Pallotta is delighted with the progress being made with the club’s new stadium.

The Stadio della Roma is a brand new arena that the American owners presented to fans and media earlier this year, that will supposedly be ready for the start of 2016/17.

And the Giallorossi chief believes that the stadium will begin a new chapter in Roma’s history.

“We have prepared a great project for Roma,” he told Radio Roma. “We would love for everything to proceed quickly.

“Although there is still a lot for us to do. It is a project for this club and for this city.

“We knew it was going to be complicated, with the stadium set to host a lot of events – not just football.

“We are going to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on infrastructure, and that is all private funding.”

Pallotta then commented on foreign ownership in Serie A – a concept that has only just reached the peninsula.

“The presence of foreign owners is growing. But I feel so much enthusiasm from everyone, just the fans.

“I’m not going to give up on this project. This is just the beginning.

“Our objective has always been the same – to make Roma the best club in the world.”

New Italy Coach Antonio Conte has spoken of the need for a change in Italian football ahead of his debut match against the Netherlands.

Thursday evening in Bari will see the 45-year-old begin his reign as Azzurri boss and, ahead of that, he has considered once more the state of the Italian game.

“We have been static for too long, with too many words and little action,” Conte has said in a pre-match interview with RaiSport.

“It’s time for a change. I read that in 2013 our championship had one of the highest average ages in Europe, almost 28.

“It’s true that our country isn’t good for young people and not just in football.”

The bullish Coach also suggested he will be making some changes in match preparation for the players.

“When we are in a training camp it won’t be open to the players’ families.

“If needed, we will have one hotel for the players and a separate one for the families.

“Concentration whilst training is vital. I want everything to be in place – after all, a match is only an hour-and-a-half long.”

The former midfielder expressed pride in being appointed this summer to the national team.

“Every so often I think about it and tell myself that it’s like a film, I would never have imagined it - I hope that it also ends beautifully.”

Conte is expected to run with a 3-5-2 formation in his first match at Italy Coach tonight, at home to the Netherlands.

Rome mayor Ignazio Marino has given his official approval to the construction of Roma’s new stadium, and hopes it will be ready by 2017.

Yesterday representatives of the club and the city council had a meeting to discuss ownership, the surrounding area and the transport facilities related to the project.

The two parties are now confirmed by the council to have agreed a deal which will enable the football club to use the new ‘Stadio della Roma’ for 30 years and to have a first right of refusal to buy the ground in the case of a sale.

Marino has also insisted that the construction of the venue had to be supported by the creation of facilities to connect the stadium with the city centre. For instance, the B line of the underground will be expanded.

“We want the facilities to be ready before Totti will play his first match in 2017,” the Roma mayor has said on the project.

“We had a really tough meeting in New York and we’ve obtained a 34 hectares park, which is bigger than Villa Borghese in an area which is a bit scary at the moment, but which will be used in a safe way.”

Work on the ground is now reportedly ready to begin in a matter of months at the Tor Di Valle site, and, according to the mayor, it will create 3,000 job places.

General manager Mauro Baldissoni also commented on the progress made in yesterday’s meeting.

“Yesterday was a day who will be important in Roma’s history, but we work every day to write little pieces of history,” he has said in an interview with Roma Radio today.

Now the project will be passed to the Lazio region for another approval, but Baldissoni stays optimistic.

“There are still thousand of details which need to be reviewed. The project of the political-economical plan is defined and this makes us think that the next step will be positive as well.”

Corriere dello Sport claims Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman will be fit and ready to return next month, just 7 months after tearing his ACL.

The Dutchman, who was injured on March 9th against Napoli at the San Paolo, is healing quickly and the Rome-based newspaper suggests that his debut will be made on October 18th against Chievo. Strootman had surgery to repair his knee ligament on March 18th earlier this year and inital reports suggested that Roma may decide to hold the the midfielder out until January for precautionary measures.

McLewis wrote:Another story on the other side of the ACL spectrum:

Corriere dello Sport claims Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman will be fit and ready to return next month, just 7 months after tearing his ACL.

The Dutchman, who was injured on March 9th against Napoli at the San Paolo, is healing quickly and the Rome-based newspaper suggests that his debut will be made on October 18th against Chievo. Strootman had surgery to repair his knee ligament on March 18th earlier this year and inital reports suggested that Roma may decide to hold the the midfielder out until January for precautionary measures.