Serie A has long been a proving ground for defensive grit, tactical discipline and individual brilliance. But behind every title run or historic campaign stands a captain who held it all together.

When Diego Maradona arrived in Naples in 1984, he did not just sign for a football club. He became the centre of a cultural shift, the figurehead of a working-class city long dismissed by the rest of ...

Plenty of eyebrows were raised in both England and Italy when Napoli swooped in for out of favour Manchester United Academy graduate Scott McTominay back in the summer of 2024, but their decision to ...

Origins and Principles of Catenaccio The term Catenaccio, meaning “door-bolt”, captured the essence of the system: to lock down the defence and frustrate the opposition. It was not originally an ...

Transfer windows often see Italian Serie A sides linked with exciting potential talent from the varying European leagues and English divisions and the Scottish Premiership are usually no different, ...

Fans of football in every European country are very used to players going to ground, and often sustaining serious, and long term, injuries after challenges, tackles and fouls, but thankfully a player ...

In more recent season’s the Italian Serie A has seen some big, and well known, names arrive from the English Premier League and if the current January transfer window rumour mill is to be believed, ...

Italian Serie A fans are in for a treat as it has now been confirmed that the hugely controversial, and incredibly talented, Mario Balotelli will again return home as he has signed a new contract with ...

The October international break may now be over, but with January and the re-opening of the transfer window continuing to edge nearer, there are still some interesting player links being made on the ...

34 year old Polish international goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is a very well known name in both the English and the Italian domestic games, and across his four club career he has certainly tasted good ...

With the 2024 summer transfer window slowly edging towards deadline day, it is being claimed on the rumour mill this week that Arsenal and manager Mikel Arteta are planning a rather unexpected move ...

Following on from their great period of dominance in Italy’s Serie A campaign in recent years under gaffer Massimiliano Allegri, racking up multiple successive Scudetto’s, Juventus’ struggles in more ...