Serie A Teams A Shame To Football

It's strange to think that no Italian team made it to the quarter finals of either the  Champions League or the Europa League. Uefa saw that the coefficients would not benefit some of the big leagues in the world and undoubtedly Serie A was that league.

When the decision came out for the winner of the Europa League to play in the Champions League,  Italian teams should have embraced it in the best of fashions and given it a great shot.

Roma did not believe they could win against Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo and after the first leg it was accepted that they were out and rightly so because you don't lose in Rome and expect to progress in Madrid.

Juventus have been the torch and face of Serie A in a Europe for the past two years but how could they blow up a two goal lead at the Allianz arena when they knew that Italy needs to progress in order to get more teams in the Champions League. They have disappointed the lovers of serie A and to loyal fans of the Italian game,they  have let us down.

Another point that should be made rests on Lazio, Fiorentina and Napoli.  At the start of the second round of the Europa League Italy had three commanding teams of the old seven sisters and they were all doing great. But  heading into the quarters and there is no Italian team meaning for the third year running, Serie A would play with three teams in the Champions league and as per the draw for the preliminary qualifications,  one team could be eliminated back to the Europa League.

Lazio, Fiorentina and Napoli have failed to carry the torch for the second tier competition in Europe.

The question is if Italian teams cannot compete in the Europa League then  how are their chances with regards to the Super elite Champions league?

Simply put they have let fans of Italian soccer down and a shame to football.

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Italian teams have become preposterous in some of their planning. Lovers of the Italian game simply cannot come to terms why Uefa under Michel Platini has come up with such a great idea that the winner of the Uefa Europa League would be given an automatic berth to the Uefa Champions League and Italian teams failed to capitalize on such a great opportunity when Fiorentina and SSC Napoli made it to the semi-finals of the competition last season.

This season seems to be a great season for the three teams carrying the flag of the Serie A thus Napoli, Fiorentina and SS Lazio. Napoli has been in scintillating form and Fiorentina seems to have finally found the ground to scoring goals and winning matches back to the days where Roberto Baggio and Gabriel Batistuta made Florence a place where beautiful women and football was sort after, but they would have to bounce back after the loss to Lech Poznan.

Italian Serie A must win the Europa League season in an season out although it might seem a daunting task, the last four competitions experienced in Europe being the Champions league and Europa league has seen La liga win them all, Barcelona and Madrid winning the champions leagues and Sevilla winning the Europa League back to back.

Where are the days of Claudio Gentile who were more interested in the pride of playing football, defending your team and the league at large? It seems the days of Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Franco Baresi, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Giuseppe Favalli would never be seen again because of the less dedication and urgency being meted out by current footballers in the Italian Serie A.  

Serie A shocked the footballing world by spending more money than other leagues which came as a surprise from the footballing world because of the new crude method of joint ownership of players where players are bought from next to nothing. But frankly how has the Italian Serie A benefitted from such sales. It is not looking good for a league with so much tactics, abundance in skilled managers and great former footballers to be experiencing such embarrassment in Europe. The FIGC should not be there waiting for things to improve because contemporary footballers are more interested in making money than playing football.

Cristiano Ronaldo has broken Raul’s record but he still wants to score more goals. Lionel Messi has won the Champions league four times and would still want to win, why, because there is what we call urgency and a desire to do more.

Serie A needs to up their game; players in Serie A should in no way use the league as a stepping stone to getting bigger deals at other clubs because the Italian Serie A is the most competitive league this season with middle table clubs occupying the greatest spots.

This season lovers of Italian football are keeping a close eye on all the teams playing in Europe and once again they cannot fail Italian football. Forza Italia, Forza Serie A, Forza Football.

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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.