JUVENTUS AND AS ROMA CANNOT FAIL ITALIAN FOOTBALL IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

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It has been five seasons since Italian Football last won the Uefa Champions League, it hasn’t been easy as Serie A was once the ultimate but it fell down in recent times but the 2015/16 Serie A promises a lot of hope but we all live to see if performances of Serie A clubs would be anything to write home about.

With the Milan Clubs winning the last three trophies for Italian football back in 2003 and 2007 for AC MILAN and 2010 for INTER MILAN, it seems Italy’s representatives just go out there to be a part of it instead of taking the trophy to the home of football tactics.

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The relapse of the two Milan clubs who managed 8^th and 10^th last season and with third place Lazio winning the first leg but losing out to Bayer04 Leverkusen in the second leg means that Italians could not equalize to make it 3-3 between themselves and Germany. The whole of Italy from Milan to Sicily lies on them and the players who ply their trade for such clubs should know that they represent a great deal part of the seven sisters with only two standing.

Juventus FC did well last season having played in the Uefa Champions Final but lost to FC Barcelona and after that game lost their touch as the core of the team Arturo Vidal, Andrea Pirlo and Carlos Tevez have all move on and Gianluigi Buffon and Barzagli with some of the squad ageing. The introduction of Cuadrado, Mandzukic and Dybala would prove vital as the season progress. Europe should not be mistaken for the National league therefore Juventus FC, the heart of Serie A should do well and contribute all they can to first of all advance the group stage and carry on successfully from there. Their game against Manchester City would be watched by a lot of people but City have played five games, scored 11 goals and considered none, with 100% record whiles on the other hand, Juventus

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faces stiff competition from Florence and Milan. Massimiliano Allegri has benefitted from his time at Milan and the experience he has gotten from five years in the Champions league having played in the final at the last edition makes him a top notch manager who should assemble a great squad who would put the National Flag on the map.

AS ROMA seem to have found the perfect rhythm and squad to help them in both the league and the Champions League. The acquisitions of particularly Edin Dzeko from Manchester City is one of the highlights of the signings in Serie A as he can help them progress with his experience in different leagues having also played and won the Bundesliga for Wolfsburg. With the age and experience of Francesco Totti  and the evergreen and dependable Daniele De Rossi, one of the two torches is in the hands of the Capital Club and Italians would be supporting no matter what in order to see the country at the pinnacle of world football.

Juventus Fc and AS Roma would shine because they don’t have any option. The other teams and fans should do well and support the two teams so that their performances would effect on the league positively.

WILL LAZIO EQUALIZE TO MAKE IT 3-3 BETWEEN ITALY AND GERMANY IN UCL

Lazio won again against Bologna to extend the taste of victory to two wins out of two. Having won the first game of the Uefa Champions League tie against Bayer04 Leverkusen, Lazio’s win would be a massive boost and a strong psychological build-up towards facing the match.

       The weekend would soon elapse and the second legs of the Uefa Champions League would come to life and Lazio would play Bayer04 Leverkusen again. There are so many things up for grabs as Lazio would seek to make it 3-3 for Italian football so that Italian football would be represented by Juventus, Roma and Lazio, German football would be represented by Bayern Munich, Schalke and Wolfsburg.

        Lucas Biglia, Mauri and Antonio Candreva would be seeing to make it to the group stages of the Uefa Champions League proper. Bayer04 Leverkusen were no mean tasks last time round at the Estadio Olympico in Rome and would not be a mean side playing at home and having the twelfth man on the pitch.

         Whatever comes out of this game, an equalizer that makes it three all for Italian and German football from Lazio would see the Champions league lighten up with enough competition from across Europe and not centred around Spanish and English football. A win by a wide margin would see Bayer04 Leverkusen and Germany extend their representatives to four and make it 4-2.

         Both teams should prepare well and give fans the game that would thrill them and make it the tie of the qualifying phase aside from Valencia and AS Monaco.

WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT DIEGO MARADONA: THE STRONG PSYCHOLOGICAL BASE

There are footballers who would get injured and that would be the end of the road for them. Diego Armando Maradona has shown that despite the injuries, the hate and the controversies he went through, he remained the same and just played football.

In the history of football there are players who are extremely talented like Lionel Messi but Diego like Ronaldinho was given skills that he used to play football. Michel Platini said, "Whatever I did with a ball, he did with an orange". Diego Armando Maradona  fell in love with the playing style of the other maestro being Ronaldinho because he saw someone who was not left-footed like the way he was but someone who was gifted with football and the skills that sets him out to entertain and dazzle the world. 

 People who have sustained long-term injuries can attest to the fact of not being themselves after the injuries as has happened to many players. Abou Diaby's career has hit the rocks because of injuries and Radamel Falcao seems to have forgotten how to position himself just to have a goalscoring opportunity because of the injury he suffered prior to the 2014 World Cup which saw him miss the amazing tournament. 

Having sustained the injuries that catapulted some of his early pains in life, Maradona never let some of the players he faced in the 80’s terrorize him because he was Diego. He played against some of the most tantalizing defensive midfielders and defenders who cared more about the result of the game and what people were going to say to them in the community more than the money and the fame they were receiving as a result of football. Defenders are Franco Baresi, Bruno Pasquale, Alessandro Costacurta all had daunting task of tearing down the man. In a match against AC Milan in the late 80’s, a young Maldini was tracking him down but to avail. The sights of Diego served as a guide and a spectacle which made Paolo Maldini the defender he became because Diego was simply the best and the tactics he used in just staying close to him made attacking midfielders and strikers of his generation seem like children.

 In football, there seems to be a tag that revolves around some of the massive footballers who has ever graced the game and Italy seemed to be the destination for some of the different characters and Diego Maradona was no different. He was no saint and had his own problems and personal demons he dealt with. But he fought against all the media speculations and criticisms just to play the game he knew best and still remains the number one footballer who has ever graced the green grass. People get injured and their careers come to an end, injuries turn world class players into mediocre footballers but Diego has battled with life and has won, adding the most prestigious trophy in the game to his honours in the form of the 1986 World Cup held in Mexico.   

Diego Armando Maradona has shown that in life you should and must be prepared to move on without love, despite the negative reviews about his footballing life as well as his personal life he is still regarded by many who are lovers of the football world which includes the author as the greatest ever who has graced the occasion. People waste their talent, others are just criticized and it gets to them, but he was not at peace with a great part of the media but still sailed and still remains numero uno. Gracias Diego.