Juventus and Serie A have confirmed the transfer of Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli to Serie A rivals Juventus, making him the third most expensive footballer of all-time.
The reported fee of £75.3 million (€94m) makes Higuain the most expensive signing in the history of Serie A. Higuain’s 36 Serie A goals last campaign enabled Napoli to finish second in the division.
The International Champions Cup (ICC) is upon us! While the safe money is on Leicester City to win the competition which “revolutionized the international soccer landscape”, Australia’s Melbourne Victory and Italy’s Juventus took to the Melbourne Cricket Ground to stake their own claims on winning the competition’s historic fourth edition.
No one told Carlos Blanco that it was a meaningless preseason game — the guy apparently lives for the ICC.
The Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah bore witness to one of the most audacious game-winning backheel goals the sport has ever seen. In fact, it might be the only one the sport has ever seen.
With the friendly match between MLS’s Real Salt Lake and Serie A’s Inter Milan tied at 1-1 in stoppage-time, Inter’s Stevan Jovetic pulled of an absurd piece of skill to decide the match.
If a football match takes place in Italy and no one is around to see it, does it actually happen? Lazio started selling season tickets on Monday, but their ticket offices remained an apparent ghost town throughout the day as they sold only 11 season tickets by the day’s end.
AS Roma’s preseason has gotten off to a flyer after they comprehensively defeated Italian semi-pro side AC Pinzolo 16-0. Edin Dzeko, Mohamed Salah, Diego Perotti and Juan Iturbe were among those who got in on the scoring action.
If you didn’t score in this match, AS Roma have most likely put you up for sale in the transfer window. Seriously though, it’s not often that you see a 16-0 scoreline pop up on your Twitter feed. Sixteen!
Back in January, it appeared as though the writing was on the wall with regards to Francesco Totti’s professional career. His wife, Ilary Blasi, confirmed that Totti’s thoughts had turned away from football.
In the southeastern Roman neighborhood of Quadraro, Atletico Diritti play their home matches under the shadow of the Felice Aqueduct. The aqueduct was completed in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V, bringing water back to the hills of Rome, which had been waterless and sparsely inhabited since the sixth century.
By 1589, the aqueduct was filling no less than twenty-seven public fountains. As the aqueduct provided for the people of Rome, so Atletico Diritti hopes to provide for the migrants, refugees, prisoners and former prisoners in the area.
Paulo Dybala lit Serie A on fire this year. The young Argentine was purchased for €32 million, and those who had kept tabs on him wondered if that transfer fee would end up being laughed at in the years to come, and for all the right reasons.
Simply put, Dybala is incredibly talented; another short forward the class of which Argentina has made its name producing. Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi, and of course Lionel Messi have made their mark on the best leagues in the world, and Dybala seems to be destined to do the same.
This year has been sensational for the slightly-not-as-good-as-Messi-and-Ronaldo group of strikers. Zlatan set Ligue 1's single-season scoring record. Luis Suarez had the best season of his career on the way to becoming La Liga's leading scorer. Harry Kane won the golden boot in the Premier League. Robert Lewandowski ripped Gernamy apart. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ripped Germany apart. Chicharito Ripped Germany apart.