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Juventus confirms Ciro Ferrara as coach

Juventus has hired Ciro Ferrara as its coach after he guided the Italian league power for the last two games of the season

Diego moving from Werder Bremen to Juventus

Werder Bremen midfielder Diego is moving to Juventus, the Bundesliga club confirmed Tuesday.

Juventus fires coach Claudio Ranieri

Juventus has fired coach Claudio Ranieri following a disappointing season in the Italian league.

Former Midfielder to Coach Juventus

Juventus, the Serie A soccer power at the center of the Italy match-fixing scandal, hired former midfielder Didier Deschamps as coach Monday.

Juventus suffer set back against Cagliari
Source: International Herald Tribune

Juventus' hopes of catching Serie A league leaders Inter Milan suffered a major blow on Saturday when it lost 3-2 at home to Cagliari.

Serie A: Chiellini One Week Away from Returning to Help Juve's Injury Problems
Source: worldfootballpostulant.com

Center back Giorgio Chiellini, out with a knee since the middle of August, is hoping to return next week when Juve faces Zenit St. Petersburg to open Champions League group play.

Moggi: Italy Still Corrupt
Source: goal.com

Former Juventus transfer guru Luciano Moggi insists that Calciopoli has not cleaned up the Italian game, and says that the corrupt figures who want to control Calcio are still able to do so. He also said that those who drove him out of the game were just jealous of his success.

Muscat relishes Juve symbolism
Source: The Age

Melbourne Victory skipper Kevin Muscat has led out a team in an FA Cup final, played in the English Premier League and for Scottish Premier League giant Rangers. So he is not likely to suffer too much from nerves when Victory takes on Juventus at Telstra Dome on Friday night.

Juventus star set for Dome
Source: Australian News Network

Former European Footballer of the Year Pavel Nedved has shelved retirement plans, ensuring he will be in the Juventus touring party when it plays Melbourne Victory at the end of the month.

Victory sets up Juventus clash
Source: The Age

Melbourne Victory is set to take on Italian giant Juventus in a big-money friendly at the end of May at the Telstra Dome.

Serie A: Juve-Parma postponed

A Parma fan, 27 year-old Metteo Bagnaresi, was run over by a bus being driven by a Juventus supporter. Although the official line is that it was a tragic accident, there were fears of reprisals and crowd trouble.

Serie A: It's tough at the top

In midweek Roma lost the Derby match against Lazio 3-2 and Inter could only manage a 1-1 draw away to Genoa. This left Roma seven points behind.

Roma keep up the pressure

Roma travelled to the Stadio San Paolo today determined not to do what Inter did last week and lose to Napoli. With Inter winning on Saturday evening it was probably a case of win this or say goodbye to any hopes of the Scudetto.

Serie A: Title race hots up after Inter's first defeat

At the Stadio San Paolo in Napoli Inter suffered their first defeat of the season this evening and, with Roma thrashing Parma 4-0 yesterday that means that Inter's lead is now reduced to just six points.

Roma close the gap on Inter

With Juventus losing on Saturday evening to Reggina, this was Roma's chance to widen the gap between themselves and Juve who were breathing down their necks, just one place and one point behind them in third place.

Roma edge closer after difficult win

Playing at home, at the Stadio Olimpico, Roma made heavy weather of beating Palermo, a side who have failed to live up to their promise of last season.

Inter win, somehow

Parma haven't won away to Inter since 1999, so nobody was expecting them to do well on this foggy night in Milan. Inter played their new acquisition from Athletico Madrid: Nuno Maniche and Parma had former Livorno striker Lucarelli on the bench.

Inter surge ahead by seven before they take on the World champs

This evening at the Stadio Sant'Elia Inter edged past lowly Cagliari with two second half goals that leave them seven points clear at the top of Serie A.

Inter extend their lead

Inter took Torino to the cleaners at the San Siro this afternoon, and with Roma only managing a draw Inter now have a five point lead at the top of Serie A.

Inter and Roma set the pace again

In a top of the table match, Inter came out winners 0-2 on their trip to play Fiorentina with Ibrahimovic laying on both their goals.

Five goals for Juventus and Inter retain their lead.

I've been away for a few days so this will have to be a quick review of this week's Serie A.

Soccer: murder charge in fan death
Source: ansa.it

A policeman who shot an Italian soccer fan dead on Sunday is now facing murder charges, the policeman's lawyer said Thursday.

Inter and Lazio game cancelled after soccer shooting leaves fan dead

This morning a Lazio football fan was shot dead by police during a clash between rival supporters at a Motorway service area on the A1, near to Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy.

Inter slip up, but only Roma take advantage

At the Stadio Barbera Dejan Stankovic was stretchered off and Inter faltered, failing to score, although they hit Palermo's crossbar. With Inter slipping-up it was down to the chasing pack to make sure that they won their games.

Serie A: Milan find form at last

The European champions AC Milan have been finding it difficult to find form in this year's Serie A. This evening they travelled to Rome to take on Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico. Suffering from something of a goal drought Milan really needed to find form.

Serie A: Inter power ahead

The game of the week was played on Saturday evening between Roma and Inter. Both teams were unbeaten going into this game, although Roma had only managed to draw their last two games.

Serie A - Wednesday's Results and Table

There was a full set of games in Serie A this evening with a few surprises. At the end of the evening we have Roma and Inter on 11 points. Roma could only manage a 2-2 draw against Fiorentina; Mancini and Giuly scored for Roma, Gamberini and Mutu (penalty) for Fiorentina.

A great advert for Italian football

This weekend saw the first game between two of the big four teams in Serie A. Roma, on full points and with a clean sheet, played host to Juventus.

Azzurri hero sinks Juve

In a tight game in which three shots from Alessandro Del Piero found the woodwork, rather than the net, it was a goal by Antonio Di Natale that presented Udinese with a surprise win in Turin this afternoon.