The Spot Kick Podcast is here! This week we discuss Jonno’s man crush, the weekend’s football results, the heated race for fourth in the Premiership, and Julien crowns Bayern the kings of Europe!
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The Spot Kick Podcast – Superbatov
This week Jonno and Julien go over their highlight of the weekend football, do a round up of results, and go in-depth with a profile on Liverpool’s newest manager: Brendan Rodgers.
Also we made puns.
Juventus On a Roll or Italian Football Stumbling?
Juventus have now extended their undefeated streak in the Serie A to 43 games, an incredible feat and one that deserves a lot of praise, but also one that places a lot of question marks on the standard of the Italian league. The amount of talented players that have come from and into this league over the last few years is remarkable, but it seems that the financial hardships that the nation is facing are starting to catch up to football. Italy has always been one of the best footballing nations in terms of keeping their homegrown talent in the country, albeit for one of the bigger clubs. But if something doesn’t change, we could see the best talent snatched away from Serie A, and have to witness it’s relegation into the 2nd tier of leagues.
What Del Piero Means for the A-League
If you’re not from Australia, you’ve probably never watched an A-League match in your life. Hell, I’m from Australia and I’ve hardly watched a match. After being raised watching the English Premier League, Champions League, World Cups, La Liga, and the like, watching an A-League match is like watching schoolboys play. I don’t like to criticise the A-league too much, as the financial backing for it is miniscule in comparison to the big leagues around the world, but let’s be honest, the quality of the league is really not great.
The fact that the biggest player to be brought in last season was Harry Kewell, who can’t even get an English club to sign him for cut wages, doesn’t give off the greatest image for the league. But lo and behold, almost out of nowhere, Sydney FC have managed to sign a true legend of the game, Alessandro Del Piero.
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