its almost embarrassing the response by Football Italia on-line least the recognize the hatrick against Pisa now.... interesting article from the guardian newspaper over here in the UK http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/09/04/livewire_lavezzi_sparks_napoli.html
i could really give a toss what they think...good or bad. the media bias is always going to be toward the big 3 because they've got the most fans abroad. but if teams like napoli, roma, lazio, fiorentina, genoa etc can start earning regular births into the CL and do well there and do well in eufa then that'll be revenge enough. (i realize roma have already done a great deal of what i said all the squads need to achieve.) at the end of the day, i really don't care what the press have to say about napoli. and hey, JJF, you were right. I went back and watched the Juve-Cagliari match. That ref was just horrible. Chiellini didn't deserve the pk and it was rescinded. the other pk call was just a joke as the cagliari player flopped over worse than cristiano ronaldo...to be fair iaquinta did the same thing against livorno the week before. the ref was simply horrible in the match and you rightly won the match. boy, i can't wait to play juve.
Alright I didn't need a half naked pic lol. Thanks. And I'm guessing the black guy is Zalayeta? Waits for racist claims...
Good article, "Lavezzi had just orchestrated the biggest Serie A upset since the San Siro tea lady told Ronaldo she was out of Garibaldis."... was a bit of a James Richardson sounding rip off though.
For a team that was in the 3rd divison just last year, I think they have already proven that the lower divisions in Italy are pretty tough. I'm counting about 12 of the same players who were with the club in the C1 14 months ago. that is a pretty big amount of players. Rosa della prima squadra 2005-2206 Portieri Matteo Gianello Gennaro Iezzo Fabio Virgili Difensori Andrea Briotti Andrea Cupi David Giubilato Gianluca Grava Luca Lacrimini Ruben Maldonado Elio Nigro Tommaso Romito Mirko Savini Centrocampisti Nicolas Amodio Mariano Bogliacino Marco Capparella Gaetano Fontana Francesco Montervino Cataldo Montesanto Ivano Trotta Luigi Vitale Attaccanti Emanuele Calaiò Gaetano Grieco Aniello Nappi Inacio Pià Roberto Sosa 2007-2008 1 GK Gennaro Iezzo 2 DF Gianluca Grava 3 DF Erminio Rullo 4 MF Francesco Montervino (Captain) 5 MF Fabio Gatti 6 DF Rubén Maldonado 7 FW Ezequiel Lavezzi 8 MF Manuele Blasi 9 FW Roberto Sosa 11 FW Emanuele Calaiò 12 GK Biagio Del Giudice 14 DF György Garics 16 DF Andrea Cupi 17 MF Marek Hamšík 18 MF Mariano Bogliacino 19 DF Mirko Savini 20 MF Roberto De Zerbi 21 DF Maurizio Domizzi 22 GK Matteo Gianello 23 MF Walter Gargano 24 MF Samuele Dalla Bona 25 FW Marcelo Zalayeta 27 MF Marco Capparella 28 DF Paolo Cannavaro 55 DF Tommaso Romito 96 DF Matteo Contini
Look for #7. He's the one who scored the 3rd goal off the sweet cut back. [youtube]z7Upxb7U2EY[/youtube]
I don't want to start a next game thread yet, but is any else worried/pissed about the international duties of Gargano, Hamsik, Garycks, and Maldonado? Just when things are going well...
Now maybe this is just me, but I think it's cool. Yes there's the injury risk which is the worst scenario but I think more often than not, playing international competition does more good than harm. I think it raises the level of play of those capped players and gives them tremendous experience. Now watch Gargano break his leg in South Africa and I'll be bitching up a storm.
not even a month into the season and look at what hes done from wiki First Season, 2007–08 Very early on he made an impact for the club, scoring a hat-trick in a 3–1 victory over Pisa in the Coppa Italia at the Stadio San Paolo; this was the first hat-trick by a Napoli player in fourteen years.[7] The first league goal Lavezzi scored for Napoli, came during a 5–0 victory against Udinese on 2 September 2007. After the match he was described in reports as "inspirational",[8] with the media proclaiming "Napoli's star is born".[8] The Neapolitan club hadn't won a league match by such a large margin since 1988, when Diego Maradona was at the club.[9]
yea they are wrong. Napoli last won 5-0 at home in 1993 when Fonseca was on the team. I think that was actually the last hat trick before Lavezzi's in the Coppa game v Pisa. I might be wrong about that, but im sure we beat Reggiana 5-0 in '93.
I believe we are talking about away games and not home games. The last time that Napoli scored five goals in an away game was with Juve, we won 5-3. What a game. I think was 1990, when we won the second scudetto.
remember watching this game in napoli at a friends house at 13 6-0 it was masdive it was when i fell in love with napoli