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Serie A Year in Preview

01:59 PM ET 08.20

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Serie A is set to begin a year in transition this weekend. In fact, this may be the last year for the Italian Serie A, as the league is set to break away from the lower leagues and reformat the competition into something more resembling the structure for Barclay's Premier League. A rebranding, complete with a new name, is almost certain to happen.On the pitch, there will be transition as well. Inter is transitioning away from their reliance on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, having sold him to Barcelona over the summer. Juventus and Milan are both transitioning to new coaches with…

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Serie A Year in Review

08:02 PM ET 07.16

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Failures in both major European club competitions, coupled with a Scudetto race that seemed over before it started, led many to call this a down year in the Serie A. Add in the media???s tendency to overreact to everything and people are questioning whether Serie A can ever return to the glory days when it was unquestionably the best league in the world. Still, even amidst the doom and gloom, the seeds for a successful renaissance were planted this past season.Inter walked away with another Scudetto this year, easily, as both Milan and Juventus lacked the consistency to challenge…

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What's In A Team's Colors?

07:27 PM ET 05.27

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Six points and a chance at a league title apparently.After the end of a phenomenal Champions League final, my anticipation for next year's Champions League had already started. So I started checking a few sites to establish who had qualified from what countries. I came across a very interesting point deduction suffered by a Romanian team.FC Timisoara has had six points deducted from their total this year due to a problem with their team name and team colors. The dispute centers around which team in Romanian owns the rights to the name, logo, colors, and records of the old…

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