Gazzetta Football Italia

[Spurger King]

Loved Sosa. Great player.

 

[only1waddle]

The often forgotten Pavel Nedved, one of the best players in Serie A from the last 20 years.

 

[nightgoat]

Batistuta - 168 goals in 269 Fiorentina 30 goals in 63 games for Roma

I was sat behind Batigol in a traffic jam when I went to Florence in '99.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

Loved Ruben Sosa, the socks, the tape, classic!!!

Also don't forget Zola and Fonseca, Early 90s Italian football was legendary. My Sundays growing up - Sunday league football in the morning, come home, shower, 2pm Italian football, then 4pm Super Sunday. Perfection!

 

[goughie1966]

And of course there was our very own Gazza who could play a bit

 

[Coyboy]

The Tiraumsu Sundae with a double macchiato was the best episode.

 

[nightgoat]

Loved Ruben Sosa, the socks, the tape, classic!!!

Also don't forget Zola and Fonseca, Early 90s Italian football was legendary. My Sundays growing up - Sunday league football in the morning, come home, shower, 2pm Italian football, then 4pm Super Sunday. Perfection!

Parma had a pretty good team back then, Zola, Asprilla, Dino Baggio, Brolin before he became fat and shit (i.e. went to Leeds), Fernando Couto, Buffon, Cannavaro...

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Anyone else remember this?

The height of Italian football in the 90s...Gazzetta Football Italia on Saturday mornings and then a live match every Sunday afternoon. Usually the Saturday show would have Gazza getting up to some kind of skullduggery like eating a giant Easter egg from the inside out haha.

Hosted by James Richardson it was a great show and during that period we had Gazza, Des Walker, David Platt (grimace) and Paul Ince all playing in Italy. Loads of the biggest names in football played there during that time – fat Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Maldini, Baggio, Baresi, Gullitt, Van Basten, Vialli, Ravanelli, Bierhoff, Davids, Zidane, Deschamps, Bergkamp. It's crazy when you think about it how big it was before all the scandals kicked in...

Obviously you had quite a few dull and defensive encounters, but you also had crazy games as well. Anyone remember George Weah running from his own penalty area before slotting it past the opposition's keeper?

Their transfer windows were always pretty extravagant as well. Clubs would often sign about 5-20 players (maybe they still do) every summer. I think I remember Juventus signing all of Sampdoria's forwards in one swoop (Harry would be proud).

The hiring and firing of managers would make Levy look impotent haha.

They made a few attempts at bringing it back on TV but it was never as good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Italia

I loved this program, watched it most weeks. Have really enjoyed watching James Richardson on BT Sport's European show at weekends.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

Hmmm

Getting ready to watch the coppa Italia final on Sky but it seems like there's crowd trouble, game was supposed to start about 10 mins ago but Hamsik is the only player out talking with the ultras or something.

What a mess and another blow to Italian football.