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AS Roma - The Giallorossi

Chrisky — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:43:45 +0800

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Associazione Sportiva Roma - The Giallorossi

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a short summary of the history of AS Roma (taken from Wikipedia) :

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25th September 1927 - the 1st ever AS Roma team that play in the league.
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Paolo Maldini Farewell Thread

Chrisky — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:55:33 +0800

as you most probably know, Paolo Maldini is *finally* retiring. The home league game against Roma this coming sunday will be his last in San Siro, while away against Fiorentina on 31 May will be his last ever official game.

- started his career with the AC youth team, and never look back since.
- initially a rightback, Maldini is right-footed.
- league debut : against Udinese, 30/1/1985.
- took over from the legendary Franco Baresi as the Rossoneri captain in 1997.
- been to 8 Champions League Final, and won 5 of them.
- 900 official appearances for AC Milan.

Honours

Winner:
Serie A: 1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-04
Coppa Italia: 2002-03
Supercoppa Italiana: 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004
UEFA Champions League: 1988-89, 1989-90, 1993-94, 2002-03, 2006-07
UEFA Super Cup: 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003 2007
Intercontinental Cup: 1989, 1990
FIFA Club World Cup: 2007

Runner-up:
Serie A: 1989–90, 1990–91, 2004–05
Coppa Italia: 1989–90, 1997–98
Supercoppa Italiana: 1996, 1999, 2003
UEFA Champions League: 1992–93, 1994–95, 2004–05
UEFA Super Cup: 1993
Intercontinental Cup: 1993, 1994, 2003

National team
FIFA World Cup 1990: 3rd Place
FIFA World Cup 1994: Runner-up
UEFA Euro 1988: 3rd Place
UEFA Euro 2000: Runner-up

Individual
Under-21 European Footballer of the Year: 1989
FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament: 1994
UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1996, 2000
UEFA Champions League Final Man of the Match: 2003
Serie A Defender of the Year: 2004
FIFA 100
UEFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2005
FIFPro World XI: 2005
UEFA Champions League Best Defender: 2007
Italy captain: 1994-2002
Italy all-time caps: 126

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1 of the greatest players of all time. Maldini deserved every single praise that you can think of. I cant believe the day is finally coming that there will be no 'Maldini' on the teamsheet for AC.

I wish him all the best, and thank him for all the great memory that he brought to every football lovers.

Grazie Paolo ! Grande il Capitano !!!

The Superga Disaster, 4th May 1949

Chrisky — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:12:33 +0800

* yesterday 4/5 was the 60th anniversary of the Superga disaster. initially i posted these in the Serie A thread, but as i read up more and more abt the disaster, i realized that its virtually unknown to much of the poeple out there. i believe that for whoever that is a fan of the beautiful game, should have the chance to get to know more abt 1 of the most tragic events to not just the Italian calcio, but the football world as a whole, as well as the interesting story of the Il Grande Torino.

* all the information that i gonna post next are gathered and collected from various sources (credits to all of them), and edited by myself. feel free to point out and correct me for any mistakes or wrong info that i made.

The Superga Air Disaster

4 May 1949, the plane - a Fiat G.212 - carrying the almost entire Torino A.C. football club team, including staffs and coachs, as well as some journalists, took off from Barcelona. The Torino team had been to Lisbon upon invitation to play in a farewell match against Benfica for the retirement of their captain, Jose Ferreira. The plane made a stop at Barcelona to refuel, and proceed to took off for Turin at 14:50 local time.

It was a cloudy and foggy wednesday, and eye-visibility was low. Upon reaching the Turin airport, the plane lost its course, and by local time 17:04, it crashed into the Basilica of Superga, which situated on the hill of Superga. There were a total of 31 persons on the plane, 27 passengers with 4 crew. There were no survivors.

Out of the 31 victims, 18 of them were the member of the 1st team of 'Il Grande Torino' - 'The Great Torino' - which was the most dominating and conquering club team in Euro at that time. They were leading the league by 16 points with 4 games left to play, having already won the championship 4 times in a row before this. It was destined that they will win it again that season and make it their 5th consercutive title.

After the disaster, Torino was left with virtually no senior members on the roster. They went on to play the remaining 4 matches with the Primavera (youth) team, who as the matter of fact, were now their 1st team. Out of respect, their opponents - Genoa, Palermo, Sampdoria, and Fiorentina - all fields their own respectively Primavera teams too for the games. The young Torino did well, and won all the remaining matches, took the title which was rightfully theirs.

The news shocked the nation, that parliament was immediately suspended. Rumours had it that a woman commit suicide upon hearing the news. 500,000 people turned up for the players' funerals. The Italian football federation even went as far as refused to let the national team to travel by plane to Brazil for the 1950 World Cup.

Torino never ever again able to back on its feet fully and regain the glory of the great 'Il Grande Torino' days again. They were relegated to Serie B by 1959, and although they did rise up and won the title again for 1 last time in 1976. Now in 2009, as I was typing this, they are fighting for survival in Serie A with just 4 games left.

Il Grande Torino

It all began when Ferruccio Novo took over as the club president in 1939, just right when the world were about to be plunged into the chaos of WW2. A free and modern thinker of his time, Novo had eyes like eagle of finding the right man for the right job. He brought in Franco Ossola, Guglielmo Gabbeto, Ezio Loik and some others who went on to become the core the now legendary team. But the most important buy that Novo had made, is no doubt the captain and the greatest of them all, Valentino Mazzola.

until today, Mazzola remains as the symbol of Il Grande Torino, their greatest captain and player, and holding some still standing club records. He is regarded by many as 1 of the greatest players of all time, as well as being dubbed as the "1st ever modern all-round player", some years before Johan Cruyff and his 'Total Footbal'. Played mostly as a trequartista (2nd forward), he can shoot and tackle equally outstandingly, as well as inspirational and motivtional for his team. Mazzola was famously remembered that whenever the team is not playing up to his standard, he would rolled up the sleeves of his shirt over his elbows as a signal of his dissatisfaction, and proceed to lead the charge himself. He was only 30 when he died. His legacy lives on by his son, Alessandro, who is a legend on his own as part of the La Grande Inter team that dominate the 60s.

Il Grande Torino was first taught of the WM formation by Andras Kuttik, the Hungarian manager who lead the team in 1940. The WM formation, pioneered by Herbert Chapman of Arsenal in 1925, was a revolutionary tactic at that time. Torino players adapted to the tactic well, and that became their regular formation throughout the domination period.

Il Grande Torino had set many still-standing record for Serie A. They won the league 4 times in a row from 1942-43 to 1947-48 (1943-44 and 1944-45 were interrupted by war), and the title of 1948-49, when the disaster struck, made it to be 5 consecutive champions. It is still a Serie A record today. During this period, they had never lost a league game at home - 93 matches, 83 wins and 10 draws, and only on 2 occassions they failed to score any goal. Again, this is another record that still stands today. In total of those 5 years, Il Grando Torino scored 471 goals and conceded only 163 goals, including 125 alone in the 1947-48 season. This is a totally undeniable outstanding achievement no matter how you look at it.

the Azzurri at that time was literally the Il Grande Torino team with blue kit, with most of the time consisted of 8 or 9 Torino players. In 1947, 10 Il Grande Torino players started for the Azzurri in a friendly match against the legendary Ferenc Puskas' Hungary. They won the match 3 - 2.

No one will ever know how far Il Grande Torino, or Italian football, can go if the Superga disaster didn't happen. Will Juventus ever be as successful as now if their local rival did not suffer this devastating event ? or maybe the great Real Madrid side on the 50s would find themselves a matching competitor since the introduction of European Cup ? how about the Azzurri with all the talents of Mazzola and co. ? whats left now to us, are just some 'what if' that will never able to be answered. But for now, Il Grande Torino had already achieve immortality in the history book, and they will always be remembered, as 1 of the greatest club team that ever play the beautiful game.

some good read about Superga disaster :

The Immortals - Channel4

Crash that toppled an Italian giant - Times Online

For those who know Chinese & play Dota

Chrisky — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:36:47 +0800

Swear Jar

Chrisky — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:21:31 +0800

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pure genius.

"I'm so proud of you mother f**kers, suckers."

FIFA World Player of the Year

Chrisky — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:36:23 +0800

the full list of 30 candidates :

Italy: Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Gennaro Gattuso, Alessandro Nesta, Andrea Pirlo

Argentina: Lionel Messi, Juan Roman Riquelme, Carlos Tevez

Brazil: Juninho, Kaka, Ronaldinho

Cameroon: Samuel Eto'o

Czech Republic: Petr Cech

England: Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, John Terry

France: Thierry Henry, Franck Ribery, Lilian Thuram, Patrick Vieira

Germany: Miroslav Klose, Philipp Lahm

Ghana: Michael Essien

Holland: Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Ivory Coast: Didier Drogba

Mexico: Rafael Marquez

Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo, Deco

Spain: Fernando Torres

alrite seriously, this list is a joke n disgrace. No Totti ? No Ibra ? No Carragher ? No Villa ? n WTF hav those like Marquez, Eto'o n Torress done to get into it ?

FIFA is shitter than i thought. how worthless this award can get nowsadays.

How Divorces Happen...

Chrisky — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:17:46 +0800

i didnt find this joke here, so here it goes... my apology if its a repost.

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A husband and wife are sitting quietly in bed reading when the wife
looks over at him and asks the question....

WIFE: "What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?"

HUSBAND: "Definitely not!"

WIFE: "Why not? Don't you like being married?"

HUSBAND: "Of course I do."

WIFE: "Then why wouldn't you remarry?"

HUSBAND: "Okay, okay, I'd get married again."

WIFE: "You would?" (with a hurt look)

HUSBAND: (makes audible groan)

WIFE: "Would you live in our house?"

HUSBAND: "Sure, it's a great house."

WIFE: "Would you sleep with her in our bed?"

HUSBAND: "Where else would we sleep?"

WIFE: "Would you let her drive my car?"

HUSBAND: "Probably, it is almost new."

WIFE: "Would you replace my pictures with hers?"

HUSBAND: "That would seem like the proper thing to do."

WIFE: "Would you give her my jewellery?"

HUSBAND: "No, I'm sure she'd want her own."

WIFE: "Would she use my golf clubs?"

HUSBAND: "No, she's left-handed."

WIFE: -- silence --

HUSBAND: "oh fark."

AS Roma - The Giallorossi Thread

Chrisky — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:38:38 +0800

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Associazione Sportiva Roma - The Giallorossi

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a short summary of the history of AS Roma (taken from Wikipedia) :

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25th September 1927 - the 1st ever AS Roma team that play in the league.
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The World's Top Ten Creative Players

Chrisky — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:32:04 +0800

Changing Platform (mobo & chipset)

Chrisky — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:41:11 +0800

alrite, i previously got a AM2 rig, using a VIA chipset mobo. juz got myself a C2D n a LGA775 Abit IB9 mobo which is P965 chipset.

the problem now is that i migrate my pata harddisk which hav Windows installed to the 775 mobo, n it juz wouldn't boot up. everything is fine from power up to the bios, n i can get to the windows logo loading screen, but thats the furthest i can get. everytime i'll get a blue screen of death n the system immediately restart itself. n the loop keep going on n on... in 1 occassion i was able to stop the blue screen, n it said something like error cause by 'change of hardware / controller' bla bla bla...

i re-install my harddisk back to the AM2 rig, n the windows boot up flawlessly. so i guess this really hav something to do wif the mobo / chipset. i googled around, n found no useful solution / info.

FYI, my Windows was installed using the AM2 sepc in the 1st place.

anyone hav any idea on this issue ? what can i do to make my existing system to cope wif the new hardware ?

thx in advance.

p/s : not sure should post this in hardware or software section, but since its like more to hardware issue... anyway if mod think otherwise, feel free to move this. thx.

Tmn Rekreasi Air Panas (TRAP) @ Sg Klah, Sungkai

Chrisky — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:26:41 +0800

hav u guys heard of the Tmn Rekreasi Air Panas (TRAP) hotspring in Sungkai ? well i juz went there 2 days ago... n its a nice place worth visiting.

for juz rm5, u can relax urself in the hotspring water that's good for ur health. its really feel great when u dip urself in the pool, or walk around the 'healthy walkway' (those walkway with egg shaped stones... what u cal that ah ? ) flowing with hot water. u can even boil some eggs there for ur picnic.

if u going by group, u can book those individual pools that cost rm25 for an hour. good if u wanna hav some privacy, like mayb bath naked...

n apart from from the 'hot' pools, there is a 'cool' themepark-like pool for u to chill out too. although u hav to pay extra for it...

direction :
around 1.5 hour drive from KL. Juz use the highway toward Ipoh, n u'll see an exit of 'Sungkai'. After the toll, turn left by the traffic light. u'll see small signboards along the way to direct u to there. juz keep ur eyes for the word 'TRAP'.

for those who never been to there yet, give it a try !

*due to my digicam ran out of battery, i didn't manage to snap any pic. too bad.

"Serie A is boring n too defensive-minded"

Chrisky — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:47:30 +0800

lol this is a question that i hav in my head for quite some times... here we go...

i guess for many of u guys here, the things that come into ur mind when speaking of Serie A or Italian football is that they are "boring", "lack of fast pace attacking", "too defensive-minded", bla bla bla...

i find it to be very amusing that whenever some Serie A matches turn out to b a goal fest or thriller, people wil come n say "wah, Serie A also got such attacking football ah?". n this happened tons of times to me, especially when Roma trashed their opponent 7-0 in a league game 2 weeks ago.

is it true that Serie A is really that 'boring' n 'lack of attacking' ? well of coz as u may know, i'm a die-hard fan of AS Roma n Serie A. i do follow Serie A closely - not juz read some report from website or papers. I watched Serie A games regularly for almost every week. n of coz, i do watched a lot EPL too. La Liga not that much, as i usually pick those big names clashes. n being to b as unbias n neutral as possible, I honestly don't think that EPL n Serie A is that far away in term of excitement.

i know a lot of people tend to brand Serie A as "defensive football". well is that true ? taken out some times, i had collected some statistic of the number of goal scored for both Serie A n EPL, for the past 5 seasons.

Serie A :
2001/02 - 806*
2002/03 - 789*
2003/04 - 816*
2004/05 - 960
2005/06 - 991

*Serie A only hav 18 teams til 03/04. it changed into 20 since 04/05.

EPL
2001/02 - 1000
2002/03 - 1000
2003/04 - 965
2004/05 - 975
2005/06 - 944

so lets see here. the grand total of Serie A's stats is 4362 goals, while EPL's is 4931. now here looks like EPL is far better, right ? but dont forget that Serie A only hav 18 teams for 01/02 to 03/04. therefore the number of matches play is juz 306 per season, compare to EPL's 380.

so in the end, the average goal scored for Serie A for that 5 season is approx. 2.58 goals per match, while EPL's is approx. 2.60 goals per match. well, is the gap really justified the claim of Serie A being "too defensive-minded" ? of coz the stats wouldn't prove anything concrete, but its a point to consider anyway.

Serie A hav some of the world's best attacking talents such as Kaka, Totti, Figo, Toni, etc. n there are also those who are relatively unknow to people who dont follow Serie A, such as like Lucarelli, Di Natale, Di Michele n Bonazzoli. These guys are on par with Crouch, Darren Bent, Saha, etc, if not better. honestly i can't agree wif such thing as "Serie A doesn't hav great attacking plays".

one reason that i believe for Serie A being branded as 'boring' is bcoz of the limited covarges available here. n seriously, those that on Astro are terrible. Its not the game itself, but the commentators. damn those guys know nuts abt Serie A, n the way they talk can really make me fall asleep. n for unknown reason, they tend to 'cover up' the live sounds of the games, so u'll hardly hear the cheerings n shoutings out there. well if u happen to watch it thru some foregin channels, it will b a huge different experience.

lol sorry for the terriblely long post. well i hope u guys can come n share ur thoughts n opinions, like what u really think of Serie A football.

EDITED : to avoid any possible bash or flame or whatever, plz note that I'm NOT trying to argue that Serie A is better than EPL or La Liga or whatever. The point here is that : is Serie A really 'boring, defensive-minded, lack of attacking play" as it hav be branded by many ?

[video] Thai Marie France ad

Chrisky — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:27:42 +0800

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well sorry if its a repost.

Korean Clock Lady

Chrisky — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:28:08 +0800

juz get the file n listen to it.

edited : shit, the link i put is not working, wait i fix it.

edited again : Link

e-Arena : featuring O2Jam & Survival Project !

Chrisky — Wed, 24 May 2006 16:50:54 +0800

hello LYN gamers ! any1 here know abt the e-Arena tournament from e-Games ?

well in case u wonder 'what the heck is e-Arena ?!'...

"e-Arena is a games league provided by e-Games to enable players to challenge each other in the various competitive games of their liking. There will be ladders of different games that players can join. It is very much like a gladiator ring for players to pit and fight with one another. Winner of a challenge will eventually rose up in the ladder, n earn Reward Point in the process... the more u play, the more win u get, the higher chance of u to win great prizes !"

More info HERE...

the next season of e-Arena will starts on 29/5/06, and run til 24/7/06... this new season will feature 2 games : O2Jam and Survival Project (SP). So if u play these 2 games, come join in !

The prizes for the new season will be more attractive than the last one...

u'll get the chance to win RM1000 cash !

also by collecting Reward Points throughout the season, u may be able to redeem real great prizes like a Xbox 360, PSP, and various kind of computer gadgets ! Check out the Prizes List, click HERE !

so guys, plz do check it out - Click HERE now !