Tag: SSC Naples
SSC Napoli: Maradona’s heirs are champions – Sport
Diego Maradona’s heirs are Italian football champions again after 33 years: SSC Napoli won the long-awaited Scudetto on Thursday evening with a hard-fought 1-1 (0-1) win at Udinese Calcio. Napoli,…
Naples in Serie A: A Sunday like a thriller – Sport
It could have been so beautiful, the apotheosis at home in Naples. Prayed for, longed for, endured for so long. Naples could have been Italian football champions on Sunday. Should.…
AC Milan in the Champions League: And then Leão turns on the light – Sport
Rain in Naples – that was an ominous harbinger, a meteorological brew of gloom, at least metaphorically. At the beginning they sang “O sole mio”, the anthem of the south,…
Champions League: Napoli desperate for Milan and Giroud
Champions AC Milan have prevailed in the Italian Champions League quarter-finals and are in the last four of the premier class for the first time in 16 years. The seven-time…
Italy derby in the Champions League: A devil as a dragon slayer – Sport
In this spring of little footballing miracles, one sometimes gets the impression that the Italians are satisfied with their participation in the Champions League. As if you could just freeze…
Champions League: Real Madrid confidently defeat Chelsea 2-0 – Sport
Defending champions Real Madrid are again on course for the semi-finals in the Champions League. With Toni Kroos in the starting XI, the Spanish record champions defeated Chelsea 2-0 (1-0)…
Beating Napoli supporters: Eruption in Curva B – Sport
Since they have been waiting in Naples for 33 years for the apotheosis, the football at least, the third championship title in the history of their Società Sportiva Calcio, the…
Pressure to perform in sport: Millionarios are people too – sport
comment by Thomas Hahn The adventure of German ex-world champion Jürgen Klinsmann as South Korean national coach began with the usual bumps. 2-2 v Colombia, 1-2 v Uruguay. Half as…
Comment Eintracht Frankfurt: power struggle threatens progress – sport
comment by Phillip Selldorf On the day that the Frankfurt team was preparing for their evening encounter with Naples, which was marred by riots, two top Eintracht officials met at…
Champions League: Frankfurt loses – but that’s only a minor matter – sport
So what the Neapolitans had feared has happened, and with great force: the game, which was supposed to be a very special one for Frankfurt Eintracht, a small football miracle…