Author: Hans

Genoa played the most bad match since the arrival of Mr. Gasperini 18 months ago. Against number last in the standings, Siena the Rossoblu-team lost the match during the first 23 minutes in which Siena scored three times.

 

In the rest of the 67 minutes Genoa was the team with the ball and we got a lot of corners (14-3), but goalkeeper Manninger of Siena never was in big troubles. Only in the 89th minute he was without any chance when Figueroa scored his first goal after a combination with our best man: Marco Borriello. 

             

Yes, it’s Marco di Vaio        (clap, clap, clap, clap)

Marco di Vaio is great        (clap, clap, clap, clap)

he’s the proud of Genoa     (clap, clap, clap, clap)

he’s scoring every game

                                   

It doesn’t matter in which team Marco di Vaio plays, the 31 years ago in Rome born striker scores everywhere. In his career he played with Lazio (3 goals), Verona (1), Bari (3), Salernitana (33), Parma (41), Juventus (18), Valencia (11), Monaco (8) and with the Italian national-team (2 goals in 14 games). Since january 2007 Marco plays with Genoa and in his first half-year he already scored 9 goals which brought Genoa back in Serie A after 12 years. This season he already scored against Cagliari and more goals are coming. Outside the field you can always find him together with our other player of Rome: Manuel Coppola. Let’s hope the two of them stay for many years with Genoa.

 Also in Holland Marco di Vaio is very popular. Dutch Serie-A striker Kevin Bobson (born in Amsterdam, raised in the youth of Ajax and now playing with Willem II in the south of Holland) named his son after our friendly striker: Divaio. So the goals will continue in the future by Divaio Bobson. 

Again Mr. Gasperini surprised everybody with his line-up. He put Papa Waigo and Di Vaio in the team on the positions of Leon and Sculli. He also chose Milanetto and not Coppola in midfield, while Scarpi had to substitute infortunate Rubinho. After a first half without goals it was Marco Borriello that opened the score 2 minutes after the break. The happiness lasted only 8 minutes when Lanna scored the equalizer: 1-1.  Both teams had opportunities to score the winning goal, but after all a draw was the right result.

Tomorrow-evening at 20.30 hours the friends of Genoa and Torino play against each other in the Olympic stadium of Torino. Despite the fact that it is forbidden to Genoa-fans to visit the match, around 500 are expected inbetween their Granata-friends. The team of Mr. Gasperini will be certainly different of last weeks. Three of our regulary line-up midfielders (Paro, Juric and Danilo) are banned because of their 4th yellow card last week. Every week it is a suprise which eleven Genoani start the match, but let’s try for tomorrow: Rubinho; Bega, Bovo, Lucarelli; Rossi, Konko, Coppola (Milanetto), Fabiano; Leon; Borriello and Figueroa.

For the first time this season Mr. Gasperini can use all his players. It surely will be a problem to choose the players that have to watch the match in the tribune.  With Roma it is very doubtful of their star Francesco Totti can play or not. The symbol of Roma is injured for weeks and has done everything to be ready for the big match against Genoa, but we hope that he has to wait another week for his come-back. 

    

Learning English, playing Football
Il Genoa ha organizzato per i propri tesserati un corso di inglese a Villa Rostan

“I speak english”. Oh, yes. Si comincia così, ma da qualche parte si doveva pur iniziare. La notizia è che il Genoa ha messo a disposizione della squadra, ma anche di chi lavora in sede, un insegnante d’inglese per imparare i primi rudimenti, o semplicemente rinfrescare quella che è considerata la lingua franca per eccellenza. Come a ribadire che il calcio è importante, ma lo è anche lo studio. E così i vertici dirigenziali del Grifone, nell’ambito di un progetto di sviluppo e potenziamento articolato in varie direzioni, hanno offerto questa possibilità che è stata raccolta con entusiasmo. La prima lezione ha visto tornare sui banchi un buon numero di tesserati tra giocatori e staff tecnico. Da lassù sir James Richardson Spensley, c’è da giurarci, approverà soddisfatto. Un modo per tenere in allenamento la mente. Nel pieno rispetto della tradizione del club più inglese d’Italia.

This message was yesterday on the official internet-site of Genoa C.F.C. and today in the newspapers. Of course the players and employees have to understand the English language, because otherwise they can not read this International fansite. Also the webmasters of this website have to improve their English language because this week we found in both Sunderland and Genoa-supporter Andy Nichol our newest member. Welcome Andy !  

From this week we start a new item to let the Genoa-fans outside Italy know more of the Rossoblu players. We start with our captain and Genoa Club Amsterdam player of the year 2004-2005: Marco Rossi.

                                                     

 

                                                            

Marco is born on the 1st of April 1978 in Seravezza, which is in North-west Toscany in the regio Lucca. Marco started his professional career in Serie B in the season 1995-1996 with Lucchese, the team of the city of Lucca. After 3 years he moved to the south of Italy to play in Serie A with Salernitana. The second year in Salerno Rossi had to play in Serie B because the team relegated in his first year. This fact let him decide to return to Toscany and Serie A with Fiorentina. After 2 years in Serie A in the summer of 2002 the purple team was bankrupt and Italian Football Association let the team start again under the name Florentia Viola in Serie C-2. Marco again did not want to play outside Serie A, so he was happy that president Enrico Preziosi of the promoted team in Serie A: Como bought him. At the end of his first season in Como, president Enrico Preziosi moved to Genoa in Serie B and he took Marco with him.

In his first year (2003-2004) with Genoa, Marco played 38 games and scored 8 goals, a lot as midfielder in Italy. In the summer of 2004 Enrico Preziosi and Marco had some problems with the new contract of Marco, so our red midfielder only played in the second half of the season when the problems were solved. Marco played 16 fantastic matches and scored 3 goals, always when the Dutch members of Genoa Club Amsterdam were present in the stadium. Because of this fact and also because Marco stayed with Genoa in the season 2005-2006 in Serie C-1 after the punishment of the Italian Football Association because of the match Genoa-Venezia we chose him as Genoa Club Amsterdam Genoano of the season 2004-2005.

In Serie C-1 Marco again scored 3 times in 33 matches and after the play-offs against Salernitana and Monza the red an blue team was back in Serie B. Last season Genoa and Marco (together with substitutes Alessio Scarpi and Cristian Stellini) promoted for the third time in a row, bringing us back in Serie A after 12 long years. Genoa’s trainer Mr. Gasperini changed fast and offensive midfielder Marco into an allround player that can play on every position at the right side of the field. This year Marco is also the captain of our team, while he already was the second captain behind Stellini last year.