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Mourinho wins Serie A with InterInter Milan retained their Serie A title with three games to spare last season. Under new coach Jose Mourinho, Inter won a fourth consecutive title, the 17th in their history to move level with city rivals Milan as Serie A's second most successful side behind Juventus. Mourinho has now won titles with Porto, Chelsea and Inter. Juventus finished second thanks to their better record over Milan. Milan clinched the third automatic UEFA Champions League place after comfortably winning 2-0 at fourth-placed Fiorentina in the last round of Serie A matches. Fiorentina could have snatched third spot with a win, which would have put them level with Milan but with a better head-to-head record, but instead they will have to settle for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers this term. The match also represented Milan captain Paolo Maldini's last match before retiring after 902 matches for the club in 24 seasons. Genoa have arguably played the most attractive football in Serie A last term and were only one point from earning a first ever UEFA Champions League berth. Sixth-placed Roma joined Genoa and city rivals and Italian Cup winners Lazio in the Europa League this season.
At the bottom, Torino needed to win and hope relegation rivals Bologna dropped points to avoid joining Reggina and Lecce in Serie B next season. But Bologna beat Catania 3-1 in the last round to finish in the 17th place, while Torino became the third and final team to be relegated from Serie A when it lost 3-2 at Roma. Livorno have returned to Serie A after a one-year absence by beating Brescia in the Serie B play-off final. They secured promotion alongside Parma and Serie B champions Bari.
This table shows the overall number of titles since 1896 for each club in Italian Serie A and their league standings in the last five seasons. Jose Mourinho extends Inter deal, Ibrahimovic and Eto'o swap shirtsCoach Jose Mourinho has agreed a new three-year contract with Inter Milan worth a €9.5m a year which, in all probability, makes him the highest-paid man in football. Another significant move for the Italian champions this summer was the Eto'o-Ibrahimovic swap. Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o moved to Inter from Barcelona and Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic went the other way in a swap deal worth more than €66m. With Eto'o being valued at €20m, Barcelona announced they were paying a separate €46m fee for Ibrahimovic, 27, the top goal scorer in Italy last season with 25 goals for champions Inter. Eto'o, 29, scored 30 league goals for Barcelona last term. Ferrara confirmed as Juventus coachCiro Ferrara has been confirmed as Juventus coach after agreeing a contract that will keep him at the Bianconeri helm until 2011. The former Italy defender was appointed to replace Claudio Ranieri for the last two games of last season and victories against Siena and Lazio gave the Turin club second place in the league and automatic qualification for the UEFA Champions League group stage. The 42-year-old was part of Italy's technical staff in their triumphant 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign and had been working in the Juve academy prior to his elevation to the senior side. This page is introduction to the 2009/2010 Italian Serie A season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Italy page. Ancelotti To Chelsea, Leonardo new Milan coachCarlo Ancelotti's eight-year tenure at Milan has ended with the coach terminating his contract a year early by mutual consent after sealing their return to the UEFA Champions League group stage. Ancelotti has agreed a three-year contract with Chelsea and Milan vice president Adriano Galliani announced club director and former player will be the new coach this season. Ancelotti is a former Milan player who steered the club to win two UEFA Champions League titles, one Serie A championship and a Club World Cup. Brazilian Leonardo, 39, is also a former player of Milan, from 1997 to 2001. Milan also sold Brazil playmaker Kaka to Real Madrig for around €68m.
The final standings for the 2007/2008 Serie A season. Lazio unveil new coach BallardiniLazio have named Davide Ballardini as their new coach on a two-year contract. The 45-year-old succeeds Delio Rossi, whose four-year stint at the Rome club ended in June when he quit after winning the Italian Cup but finishing a disappointing 10th in Serie A. Ballardini led Palermo to an eighth-place finish last term but refused to stay on in Sicily after falling out with chairman Maurizio Zamparini, who brought in former Catania coach Walter Zenga to replace him. Atzori named Zenga successorCatania have signed coach Gianluca Atzori to replace Walter Zenga, who moved on to the other Sicily club Palermo. Atzori, 38, has agreed a two-year contract after a good past season at the helm of lower-division Ravenna. He was also assistant coach at Catania in 2007/08. Zenga, who has kept Catania in Serie A for the past two campaigns, had been linked with Lazio in the Italian press. But he has made the switch to Catania's Sicilian rivals Palermo. Atalanta appoint Angelo GregucciAtalanta have appointed Angelo Gregucci as their new coach. The 44-year-old succeeds Luigi Del Neri, who left the Nerazzurri at the end of the 2008/09 campaign in order to take over at Sampdoria. Gregucci began his coaching career in 2000 as assistant boss to Roberto Mancini at Fiorentina, and he has since moved on to take full control of Venezia, Salernitana, Lecce and Vicenza. Inter favourites for "scudetto"Inter seem to have stayed around the same level as last season despite losing Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Juventus are the only team that appear likely to challenge the Italian champions this season. The question is whether they can actually do this. Milan will have to deal with losing Kaka to Real Madrid. They will need Ronaldinho to find his form of recent years if they are going to want to take the Serie A crown. The three newcomers in the 2009/10 Serie A, Bari, Parma and Livorno, along with a number of teams who narrowly escaped relegation last season, are expected to battle it out to avoid a bottom-three finish this campaign.
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key players (transfer market value)Atalanta BergamoGoalkeeper Andrea Consigli (€3.2m); Defense: Thomas Manfredini (€3m), Gyorgy Garics (€2.5m), Gianpaolo Bellini (€2.3m); Midfield: Adriano Ferreira Pinto (€6.5m), Tiberio Guarente (€4m), Edgar Barreto (€3.5m), Cristiano Doni (€3.5m), Jaime Andres Valdes Zapata (€3m); Forward: Robert Acquafresca (€10m), Simone Tiribocchi (€3.5m). BariGoalkeeper Jean Francois Gillet (€1m); Defense: Alessandro Parisi (€1.5m), Andrea Ranocchia (€1m), Andrea Masiello (€0.9m); Midfield: Matteo Paro (€2m), Filippo Carobbio (€1.5m), Daniele De Vezze (€1.5m), Salvatore Masiello (€1.5m); Forward: Barreto (€3.5m), Riccardo Meggiorini (€3m), Antonio Langella (€1.8m). BolognaGoalkeeper Emiliano Viviano (€4m); Defense: Andrea Raggi (€2.8m), Daniele Portanova (€2.8m), Miguel Britos (€2m), Evangelos Moras (€1.6m); Midfield: Gaby Mudingayi (€4m), Francesco Valiani (€2.5m), Roberto Guana (€2.2m), Luca Vigiani (€2m); Forward: Marco Di Vaio (€5.5m), Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (€3.3m). CagliariGoalkeeper Federico Marchetti (€6m); Defense: Francesco Pisano (€3m), Lino Marzoratti (€3m), Michele Canini (€3m), Carlos Javier Matheu (€2.2m); Midfield: Daniele Conti (€4.5m), Andrea Cossu (€3.5m), Davide Biondini (€2.7m); Forward: Nene (€6m), Jeda (€3.8m), Alessandro Matri (€3m). Catania CalcioGoalkeeper Mariano Gonzalo Andujar (€3.5m); Defense: Matias Agustin Silvestre (€3.3m), Alessandro Potenza (€1.7m), Alessandro Potenza (€1.7m); Midfield: Pablo Barrientos (€4.2m), Pablo Martin Ledesma (€3.5m), Gennaro Delvecchio (€3m), Marco Biagianti (€3m), Ezequiel Alejo Carboni (€1.8m); Forward: Giuseppe Mascara (€6m), Jorge Martinez (€3m). Chievo VeronaGoalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino (€2.2m); Defense: Andrea Mantovani (€2m), Mario Yepes (€1.5m), Nicholas Sebastian Frey (€1.4m); Midfield: Simone Bentivoglio (€2.5m), Luca Ariatti (€2m), Giampiero Pinzi (€1.8m), Luca Rigoni (€1.5m); Forward: Sergio Pellissier (€7m), Pablo Granoche (€2.8m), Erjon Bogdani (€1.6m). FiorentinaGoalkeeper Sebastien Frey (€15m); Defense: Alessandro Gamberini (€13m), Juan Vargas (€9m), Manuel Pasqual (€6.5m); Midfield: Riccardo Montolivo (€14.5m), Stevan Jovetic (€9.5m), Zdravko Kuzmanovic (€9.5m), Mario Alberto Santana (€7.5m), Marco Donadel (€6.5m); Forward: Adrian Mutu (€25m), Alberto Gilardino (€18m). GenoaGoalkeeper Marco Amelia (€9.5m); Defense: Domenico Criscito (€8m), Emiliano Moretti (€8m), Salvatore Bocchetti (€5m); Midfield: Alberto Zapater (€8m), Houssine Kharja (€5.5m), Giandomenico Mesto (€5.5m); Forward: Sergio Floccari (€11m), Rodrigo Sebastian Palacio (€9.5m), Raffaele Palladino (€6m), Giuseppe Sculli (€4.5m). Inter MilanGoalkeeper Julio Cesar (€23m); Defense: Maicon (€29m), Cristian Chivu (€21m), Lucio (€18m), Walter Samuel (€14m); Midfield: Esteban Cambiasso (€29m), Sulley Ali Muntari (€17m), Ricardo Quaresma (€16m), Dejan Stankovic (€14m); Forward: Samuel Eto'o (€35m), Diego Milito (€20m). JuventusGoalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (€30.5m); Defense: Giorgio Chiellini (€20.5m), Nicola Legrottaglie (€9m); Midfield: Diego (€29m), Felipe Melo (€19m), Mohamed Sissoko (€16m), Mauro Camoranesi (€12m); Forward: Amauri (€18.5m), David Trezeguet (€17m), Vincenzo Iaquinta (€15m), Alessandro Del Piero (€14m). LazioGoalkeeper Albano Benjamin Bizzarri (€3.5m); Defense: Stephan Lichtsteiner (€7.5m), Aleksandar Kolarov (€5m), Lorenzo De Silvestri (€3.2m); Midfield: Cristian Daniel Ledesma (€9.5m), Pasquale Foggia (€7.5m), Stefano Mauri (€5.5m), Eliseu (€5.5m); Forward: Goran Pandev (€16m), Mauro Matias Zarate (€15m), Tommaso Rocchi (€9.5m). LivornoGoalkeeper Francesco Benussi (€1m); Defense: Dario Knezevic (€2m), Mirko Pieri (€1.2m), Marcos Plinio Diniz Paixao (€0.8m); Midfield: Davide Moro (€2.7m), Martin Bergvold (€1.6m), Nico Pulzetti (€1.5m), Antonio Candreva (€0.9m); Forward: Francesco Tavano (€6m), Alessandro Diamanti (€4.5m), Cristiano Lucarelli (€3m). MilanGoalkeeper Christian Abbiati (€6.5m); Defense: Alessandro Nesta (€13.5m), Gianluca Zambrotta (€10m), Thiago Silva (€9m); Midfield: Ronaldinho (€28.5m), Andrea Pirlo (€25m), Gennaro Gattuso (€19m), Mathieu Flamini (€13.5m), Massimo Ambrosini (€11m); Forward: Pato (€27.5m), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (€20m). NapoliGoalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis (€5.5m); Defense: Camilo Zuniga (€6m), Fabiano Santacroce (€5.5m), Hugo Armando Campagnaro (€4m); Midfield: Marek Hamsik (€15.5m), Christian Maggio (€8.5m), Luca Cigarini (€8m), Walter Gargano (€5.5m); Forward: Ezequiel Ivan Lavezzi (€16.5m), Fabio Quagliarella (€14m), German Gustavo Denis (€6.5m). PalermoGoalkeeper Rubinho (€6m); Defense: Simon Kjaer (€4m), Mattia Cassani (€3.8m), Federico Balzaretti (€3.5m), Cesare Bovo (€3.5m); Midfield: Fabio Henrique Simplicio (€9.5m), Antonio Nocerino (€8m), Javier Pastore (€5.5m), Fabio Liverani (€5m); Forward: Edison Cavani (€10.5m), Fabrizio Miccoli (€8m). ParmaGoalkeeper Antonio Mirante (€2m); Defense: Hernan Pablo Dellafiore (€3.2m), Christian Panucci (€3m), Pablo Ezequiel Fontanello (€3m); Midfield: Daniele Galloppa (€5m), McDonald Mariga (€4.5m), Stefano Morrone (€3.2m); Forward: Valeri Bojinov (€6m), Alberto Paloschi (€3.8m), Davide Lanzafame (€3.5m), Julio Cesar de Leon (€3.5m). RomaGoalkeeper Doni (€11.5m); Defense: Philippe Mexes (€19m), Juan (€18m), John Arne Riise (€10.5m); Midfield: Daniele De Rossi (€35m), David Pizarro (€14m), Julio Baptista (€14m), Matteo Brighi (€13m), Taddei (€11m); Forward: Mirko Vucinic (€18.5m), Francesco Totti (€17.5m). SampdoriaGoalkeeper Luca Castellazzi (€3.5m); Defense: Stefano Lucchini (€3.5m), Luciano Zauri (€3m), Pietro Accardi (€2.5m), Daniele Gastaldello (€2.3m); Midfield: Angelo Palombo (€10m), Paolo Sammarco (€5.5m), Daniele Mannini (€4m), Daniele Dessena (€4m); Forward: Antonio Cassano (€17m), Giampaolo Pazzini (€11m). SienaGoalkeeper Gianluca Curci (€4.5m); Defense: Aleandro Rosi (€1.5m), Goncalo Brandao (€1.5m), Cristiano Del Grosso (€1.2m); Midfield: Paul Constantin Codrea (€2m), Mato Jajalo (€1.5m), Simone Vergassola (€1.5m); Forward: Massimo Maccarone (€3.7m), Michele Paolucci (€3.5m), Abdelkader Ghezzal (€2.5m), Reginaldo (€2m). UdineseGoalkeeper Samir Handanovic (€7m); Defense: Cristian Zapata (€12.5m), Felipe (€6m), Andrea Coda (€4m); Midfield: Gaetano D'Agostino (€14m), Gokhan Inler (€9m), Mauricio Isla (€5m); Forward: Antonio Di Natale (€15m), Alexis Sanchez (€6.5m), Simone Pepe (€5.5m), Antonio Floro Flores (€5.5m). |
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