Intro to Signor

I’ve decided to start this blog to put out the view of Serie A from that of a fan. I’ve been following the league since I was a boy, and quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing people who don’t/can’t even watch the league in its fullness spout off about Italian football when all they can base their opinion on is the biased spews of an old bastard that nuthugs Everton and highlights they happen to catch. How can they even give an informed opinion? Well, they can’t and that’s where I come in.

I’ve come to inform about a league I follow as if it were the Bible itself and I’ll admit, I am a little biased, and don’t tend to water down my opinion. So, for sheer bluntness and strong opinions about everything, you’ve come to the right place.

I’ll set up a system with player of the week and a featured Serie A youth. I feel it’s quite important to honour those that have done a phenomenal job that week, but to also promote the Serie A youth who are sometimes overshadowed by what I call the “FPL” (Foreign Players League) and its overrated young players. You’ll probably learn throughout this blog that I cannot stand English football and everything it represents. I am for the No al Calcio Moderno Movement. I do not believe in making everyone sit down. I do not believe in overpriced seats and making football less a sport and more a pokemon card game for billionaires. I do not believe in players being overpaid and making more money in one year than most people will make in their entire lifetime.  The FPL represents that. It denies the home-grown youth their dreams whilst bolstering the dreams of foreigners. It takes away from the identity of a club. A club should represent its area and in intenational competition, its country. Instead, we have the French and Spanish national teams being represented in “English” clubs. Anyways, I’m getting sidetracked and this isn’t about FPL and how it’s killing English football and soon world football.

Our first player of the week will be based on last matchday in both domestic and international competition.  That player is Alessando Del Piero, or Alessandro the Great as I like to call him.

Finding a refreshment in form, Alex has taken the Old Lady out of the pot of loss and into the pot of goals.

For all those that thought he was too old, Del Piero has come back and proven otherwise. With three freekicks resulting in goals within a week time-span, how could I not feature him as our first Player of the Week? The guy is a living legend. So many people wrote Juventus off with the loss of Gigi Buffon to injury and some uninspiring results, but Del Piero once again comes to the head of the pack, defeating Real Madrid twice, and working a number over Chievo that left them reeling. To make it better, he scored the freekick against Chievo on his birthday. Talks of a contract extension are in place and if he can keep up his current form, if not get better, his Ballon d’Or dream might just be realised.

This weeks Feature Serie A Youth is Mauro Zarate. Since bursting onto the Italian scene, this kid has been making a name for himself bagging a tonne of goals almost immediately, however, sometimes his skill makes his ego get the best of him.

Lazio starlet Zarate has brought a new spirit of Scudetto hopes to the Biancocelesti

Bursting onto the Italian scene only this season, Zarate is the third top scorer in Serie A with  7 goals in 11 games. His pace and poaching abilities has brought Lazio to a Champions League spot in the table so far this season. Though he’s noted as sometimes being a bit of a ball hog, there’s no denying that this boy has the potential to take Lazio to the top as well as possibly wreak havoc in the UEFA Champions League next season. After a less than stunning season last year, Lazio have emerged with this new starlet as a side to be feared once again and don’t be surprised if you see the bigger clubs trying to get this young Argentine to put pen to paper if Lazio don’t seize the opportunity to sign him at the end of the season.