✍️ 𝕀𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕝𝕤: The Saints of Italian Football From Baresi’s 6️⃣ to Maradona’s 🔟, we explore the sacred ritual of retiring shirt numbers - devotion, brilliance and memory enshrined forever calcioengland.com/2025/12/31/i...

🇮🇹 𝕀𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝔽𝕠𝕠𝕥𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 Episode 2: Ever Heard of Alfa Romeo’s Football Club?

🆕✍️ We’re back from #VeneziaFC with the latest Calcio Travel Notes A match day at Stadio Penzo is unlike anywhere else in Italy - a stadium on the lagoon, a club with a rich history…and a ground living on borrowed time ⏰ Read here 👉 calcioengland.com/2025/11/23/c...

🇮🇹 Igor Protti rose from Serie C to Serie A - not once, but twice. His was a career defined by heart, courage & perseverance Today, he faces his greatest battle off the pitch calcioengland.com/2025/10/19/f...

⚠️ CFS Birthday Sale ⚠️ Classic Football Shirts are offering 20% off everything sitewide with code HAPPYBIRTHDAY 👉 fas.st/t/nb2EzNr3 #ad

🎟️🇮🇹 How much does it cost to watch Italian football in 2025/26? From San Siro to Sassuolo, we compare season ticket prices across Serie A - shining a light on new pricing strategies and revealing where you can watch football for just £6.64 per game calcioengland.com/2025/07/29/j...

🥃 2025, the summer of Italo Disco…and Sampdoria

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A hostage situation is unfolding in Washington DC

🗓️ The schedule for confirming Serie A kick-off dates and times has now been revealed ✈️ Time to get planning! calcioengland.com/2025/06/16/s...

🏟️ From La Stampa newspaper, May 1984, the runners & riders for Italia’90 World Cup venues Perugia and Ascoli were unfortunate to eventually miss out From discarded stadia to a phantom draw, the untold story of #Italia90… 👉 calcioengland.com/2025/06/08/i...

🇮🇹 Italia ‘90 kicked off on this day 35 years ago…but it didn’t start there It began 8 years earlier - with intrigue, scandal & backroom deals From Cameroon’s pre-tournament chaos to Baggio’s betrayal, this is the prelude to the Magic Nights 👉 calcioengland.com/2025/06/08/i...

On this day in 1984, Liverpool won the European Cup against AS Roma in Rome. For Roma, it was the start of a long unraveling and the beginning of the end for their great captain, Agostino Di Bartolomei. www.cultured.football/p/ciao-capit...

Who remembers Stefano Gioacchini? A young forward who signed for Coventry on loan from a Venezia in January 1999 He mustered 3 PL appearances from the bench before heading home to play for Serie B Cosenza

🆕✍️ Italy 1-2 Pontedera - the day the Azzurri were humbled by their fourth division opponents 30 years on, Pontedera used the iconic Gazzetta headline - 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗽 - to inspire their 24/25 shirt Full story👇 calcioengland.com/2025/05/24/i...

📉🧤Spare a thought for GK Alessio Cragno, once a regular in the Italian national squad, he’s had a rough few years… May 2021: Started for Italy v San Marino May 2022: Relegated (B) with Cagliari May 2024: Relegated (B) with Sassuolo May 2025: Relegated (C) with Sampdoria

🇮🇹 The view of Stadio Olimpico during last night’s Coppa Italia Finale The Italian Open Tennis competition is currently being held on the clay courts of Foro Italico

38 players used, 5 different goalkeepers, 4 coaches and €millions wasted in flawed recruitment tells the story of a wretched season for #Sampdoria Relegation to Serie C for the first time in the club’s history This lot deserve so much better

My guest article on @calcioengland.bsky.social revisits one of the greatest games of the 84/85 season. This game had everything! ✅ Appalling conditions ✅ Brazilian World legend ✅ 3-goal comeback ✅ Thrilling finale calcioengland.com/2025/05/06/v...

✍️ In this guest post spotlighting his new book, author @rickhough.bsky.social recounts a defining moment in Hellas Verona’s improbable journey to their historic Scudetto #hvfc /=\ 👉 calcioengland.com/2025/05/06/v...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Atalanta fans at Penydarren Park, Merthyr, September 1987

👟 @1913parmacalcio.bsky.social X Puma Unboxing of the Parma Super Team sneakers 🔥 ✅ Club crest on tongue & heel ✅ Insole inspired by the 1996/97 shirt ✅ Embossed Parmalat logo ✅ Retro club name inscription

🏟️ Stadio Olimpico, Rome 📅 1930s v today An awesome photo of the original 1932 design - basically just a sports field with grassy banks instead of terraces

The 1990s away sector at Venezia wasn’t for the faint-hearted 😵

🍿 Atalanta distributed their own branded popcorn at the premiere of their docu-film Una Vita Da Dea

1️⃣7️⃣ Marek Hamsik

🏟️ Stadio Olimpico, Rome (1957)

🏟️ Stadio Sinigaglia, Como Stunning on a sunny day…also stunning under moody skies

🙏 Basilica di Superga, the scene of Italian football’s greatest tragedy

📸 Pierluigi Casiraghi AC Monza 1988/89

📦 Our latest eBay pickup… 1986 Anglo-Italian Cup programme The edition of the tournament where rookie coach Marcello Lippi led Tuscan side Pontedera to a resounding 6-1 victory over Merthyr Tydfil

🏊‍♂️ Ajax’s Daniele Rugani sustained a cut to the head in tonight’s UEL game…so they whacked a swimming cap on it

𝕃𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟… Louis Thomas Buffon making his professional debut at 17

Gullit & Lombardo 🔵⚪️🔴⚫️⚪️🔵

🇩🇪 Thomas Berthold - spent two seasons with Verona in the late 1980s before winning the 1990 World Cup

In Serie B today, second place Pisa travel to third place Spezia. Victory for the Tuscans would stretch their margin to 9 points in the race for automatic promotion to Serie A. Defeat would slash it to just 3. Pisa are peddling some 👌 content over on Instagram - worth checking out

So, Roberto Baggio had a @watfordfc.bsky.social scarf on his bedroom wall when he was a lad Who knew?!

Sambenedettese meet Ancona in an Adriatic derby tomorrow. Victory for Samb will cement their lead at the top of Serie D (4th tier) This was the final training session ahead of the match… 😮

🅱️ No doubt about the match of the day in Serie B today…we’ll be locking in for live coverage of Sampdoria v Palermo at 4:15pm (UK) - free to view on Destination Calcio

🎁 Luciano Spalletti turns 66 today Rewinding two years, when my boy met him in Reggio Emilia. He was so generous with his time and even signed the photo “To my friend…”. A memory that’ll be cherished for a lifetime What a guy. Buon compleanno, Mister!

🏟️ Pisa’s Arena Garibaldi in 1930…the photo was taken *from* the Leaning Tower of Pisa

📸 One of my favourite photos taken during a visit to #Napoli this time last year It looks like the musician might be serenading El Diego You really can’t go more than a hundred paces without seeing an image of Maradona in the city

👟 After playing one match in them, my son decided that he didn’t like wearing black boots… So we customised them in the colours of his beloved #Sampdoria with Fabio Quagliarella detailing 🔵⚪️🔴⚫️⚪️🔵 BEFORE v AFTER:

🥅Serie C hotshot 🩹Devastating injury 🦅Soaring with Palermo 🏔️On top of the world 🏆🌎Luca Toni's rise to Azzurri glory is one that touches all levels of calcio. Italy has never had a more unlikely hero. ✍️ @calcioengland.bsky.social destinationcalcio.com/luca-toni-it...

🏟️ With #Pisa primed for promotion to Serie A, the club are working with the Municipality to avoid the usual summer stadium shenanigans faced by newly promoted teams Work is already underway to increase the capacity to the required 12,000 threshold

🏟️ Stadio San Paolo 📍 Napoli 📅 1960s

In Serie D, Casale travelled en masse to Alessandria for the local derby today The one-time Scudetto winners wore a special shirt for the meeting of two of the Quadrilatero d’Oro - a name referring to the super powers of the amateur era (Pro Vercelli & Novara being the others)

🏟️ When #Udinese’s Stadio Friuli first opened in 1976 they were yet to build the curva - a grassy bank occupied the space behind the goal

🇮🇹 Panini Calciatori Serie A 2024/25 Album & Stickers £1 per packet Albums £7 each Postage charged at cost (£1-£4 depending on size/value within UK) ✉️ Another batch just arrived, DM to order

⚫️🔵 Marcelo Brozovic’s customised Nike boots from 2021 #inter #intermilan #fcim