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Ciro Immobile’s 13 goals for Lazio in all competitions this season are bettered only by Lionel Messi across Europe’s top five leagues. Photograph: Filippo Venezia/EPA
by Paolo Bandini | Oct 12, 2017 | Sports
London — There was a time when Italians might have been insulted by the suggestion of theirs being the third-best football league in Europe. Serie A was always il campionato più bello del mondo – the most beautiful championship in the world. How else to describe a...
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Milan players celebrate after Cristián Zapata equalised with the last kick of the match to earn a 2-2 draw in the San Siro derby with Inter. Photograph: Flavio Lo Scalzo/AP
by Paolo Bandini | May 4, 2017 | Sports
“Closing.” That English word has dominated the Italian sports pages for more than two years now: seven letters that became a shorthand for the day when Silvio Berlusconi would sell Milan. A good many people doubted it would ever arrive. The man they call Il...
