Sunday January 11th, 2009

9:00am/et LIVE
Fiorentina vs. Lecce
2:30pm/et LIVE
Roma vs. Milan


Fanatics Kickback

Every once in a while it’s good to see a referee have enough humility to ask for help from his assistants and admit to having made a mistake. The situation occurred in the 2nd half of the Reggina-Lecce game today...

Alf De Blasis – Soccer Fanatic



Response to: Let Lippi Restore Pride to Azzurri

Alf your comments as always are insightful and well thought out. I agree the EURO was a disaster for Italy and Donadoni should be replaced with Lippi. They were lucky to even make it to the quarters, Lippi will restore the pride in the Azzuri jersey…

Comment from: Sylvester



YEAR WINNER SCORE RUNNER UP LOCATION
1998 Internazionale 3–0 Lazio Paris, France
1999 Parma 3–0 Marseille Moscow, Russia
2000 Galatasaray 0–0 Arsenal Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Liverpool 5–4 Alavés Dortmund, Germany
2002 Feyenoord 3–2 Borussia Dortmund Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003 Porto 3–2 Celtic Seville, Spain
2004 Valencia 2–0 Marseille Gothenburg, Sweden
2005 CSKA Moscow 3–1 Sporting CP Lisbon, Portugal
2006 Sevilla 4–0 Middlesbrough Eindhoven, Netherlands
2007 Sevilla 2–2 Espanyol Glasgow, Scotland
2008 Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 Rangers Manchester, England

KEY
Champion won after extra time
Champion won after extra time in a penalty shootout
Champion won after Golden goal extra time

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Winners By Country
Country Winners Runners-Up
     Italy 9 6
     Germany 6 7
    England 6 4
    Spain 5 4
    Netherlands 4 2
    Russia 2 0
    Sweeden 2 0
    Belgium 1 2
    Portugal 1 2
    Turkey 1 0
    France 0 4
    Scotland 0 3
    Austria 0 1
    Yugoslavia 0 1
    Hungary 0 1