Lega Serie A – General Discussion

[RomaShield27]

One in three attend Serie A games
Friday May 31 2013 / http://www.football-italia.net/34803/on ... erie-games

A study has found that only one in three football fans in Italy attend games in Serie A, even as football remains the country’s most popular sport.

Carried out by Birra Moretti, the survey that asked 1000 people between the ages of 18 and 64, was intended to ascertain the general behaviour of sports fans in the peninsula.

Football was found to be the most loved sport, with 60 per cent of those asked following the sport, ahead of 57 per cent following Formula 1 and 55 per cent up for MotoGP. Tennis on 24 per cent, volleyball on 20 per cent and cycling on 19 per cent completed the top six.

However, despite football’s popularity, only 33 per cent confirmed that they go to watch games live at stadiums, at least occasionally.

The country is also split on where they believe is the best place to watch games, with 48 per cent seeing that home in front of the television makes for the better experience compared with 46 per cent preferring the stadiums.

Only 12 per cent of those surveyed described themselves as diehard supporters, never missing a game that their team plays and whenever they can attending the stadium. A majority 31 per cent indicated that they usually watch games at home on the sofa, instead of attending live.

Reasons for not attending games regularly were suggested as the cost of tickets, safety fears and laziness at the last minute due to bad weather.

[RomaShield27]

http://www.thehardtackle.com/2013/sassu ... s-serie-a/

[RomaShield27]

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_ ... turns-ugly

[Monsignor]

They really should reduce the league to 18 teams, for everyone's sake (well, except those 2 teams that would get relegated out of the blue).

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http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/14-08-201 ... 0036.shtml

[Messinterista]

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[RomaShield27]

Interesting report/analysis from passionemaglie.it on why merchandising and marketing in Serie A is not quite the same or as good as other big football leagues. They contacted every Serie A club, and highlights those which fall behind in terms of not even being able to buy the official jersey on their website.

http://www.passionemaglie.it/2013/09/me ... ni-seriea/

[RomaShield27]

Serie A attendance figures 2013/14, so far:

HIGHEST:
1) Inter 56,955
2) Napoli 45,158
3) Juve 38,477
4) Milan 37,810
5) Roma 36,258

LOWEST:
1) Cagliari 0*
2) Livorno 10,414
3) Chievo 10,958
4) Udinese 10,721*
5) Parma 11.326

*Cagliari no home stadio, games played in Trieste.
*Udinese's Stadio Friuli partially close due to renovation.

Highest attendance, all league: Inter v Juventus 79,343.

All figures from excellent stat site http://www.stadiapostcards.com

[DCGweez]

Europa league draws:

taly’s Europa League ties: Swansea v Napoli, Juventus v Trabzonspor, Lazio v Ludogorets, Esbjerg v Fiorentina.

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And Juve to play Fiorentina if they both get through those initial ties.

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I see that SKY have picked up the rights to the Coppa Italia this year and are showing Roma v Juve tomorrow.

Wonder if this is them dipping a toe in the water ahead of perhaps looking to get Serie A coverage in the future?

Certainly the potential for SKY to suddenly take an interest in things they've been ignoring since BT have got rights for the next few years of CL games.

[RomaShield27]

Yep, I seen that a few days ok. I was shocked when I seen it, I thought it must have been a mistake.

I think it must be a reaction to BT and the manner in which they are taking over. BT's coverage of European football has been great; not just Italy, but Germany and France as well. Plus with BT showing more and more Premiershit games, as well as getting the rights for the Champions League in a few years, I think its making Sky realise they have to get in on the act and show more stuff.

But I say fuck Sky. For years they ignored Serie A (they did show it for a season or two back in the early 90's i think) when it was available and going from channel to channel after Channel 4 stopped showing it, and just stuck with English and Spanish football. Now they have competition, and a channel who are making a very good go of it they want to get back into it. Fuck that. I won't watch it on Sky (cos i don't have it, but if I did i still wouldn't). BT is the future.

More on it here http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthre ... p=70869465

[RomaShield27]

Watched Roma-Juventus coverage on Sky Sports 3 (UK) ...

"Not historically the biggest rivals these two"

"Roma have only 3 Italians in their starting lineup" (Totti + De Rossi + De Sanctis + Florenzi started)

"Nainggolan is on loan from Cagliari, the club from Sicily"

"Totti's 'international team-mate, Bonucci"

"Mattia Destro coming on" (when Pjanic was)

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Pjanic, apparently, is also more of an out-and-out winger than Florenzi...

[DavidP]

those two were hilarious at first, got boring after a while though. i wish michael owen had done the commenting, he's one of the few british pundits i listen to. puts everything so concisely, puts so much meaning into every word that you just want to keep hearing him talk when the game is done. just the other day he dropped this nugget: "football isn't rocket science, just run around a bit!"

[Messinterista]

[Messinterista]

Tavecchio: 18-team Serie A and…

Carlo Tavecchio is determined to push through reforms in Italian football including squad limits and a return to an 18-team Serie A.

The President of the Italian Football Federation chaired a second Federal Council in Rome today and afterwards updated the Press on his intentions.

One key change is a plan to reduce Serie A to 18 teams, Serie B to between 18 and 20 teams, and to also push the Lega Pro ‘to as few teams as possible’, in what the 71-year-old described as ‘the mother of all battles’.

“It's useless that we go around in circles for years and not do anything concrete,” Tavecchio has commented.

“The logic behind reducing the amount of professional teams is in the facts. In this way our resources will be better shared. It's useless to hide the fact that our financial situation isn't pretty.

“This is the dominating theme - a revised Serie A, Serie B and Lega Pro.

“And the timing on this? During the next three years.”

The reason behind reducing the number of players in each club’s squads is also to cut down on costs, but Tavecchio wants to ensure that Italian players are given space as well.

In the new 25-man proposed limit, a minimum of four players will need to have come up through the team's academy, and four others developed nationally.

“The squad reductions will gradually come into effect starting next season,” Tavecchio explained.

“In two or three years, clubs will have to abide by these new regulations in order to control costs and as a way of valuing Italian players who come up through the academy systems.

“It's going to come gradually. But already the teams that participate in European competitions have to abide by this same setup.”

Source: http://www.football-italia.net/55824/ta ... d%E2%80%A6

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Hopefully this isn't just talk.