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Italy is a nation renowned for its classical romanticism, lovely historical destinations, wonderful cuisine and the boisterous, lively and at time rowdy nature of its professional football league. The Italian Serie A, which is also officially known as the Lega Calcio Serie, is the country's professional football league and is considered in the highest level of the nation's football league system.

The Serie A is universally regarded as one of the best, and most exciting football leagues in the planet. The Italian pro football league has also been renowned to produce the largest number of European Cup finalists, wherein twenty-five Serie A clubs have reached the finals of the competition, winning the title eleven times.

The Planet's Famous Football Clubs

The Italian Seria A League is home to some of the planet's famous football clubs. Among them are AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Roma, Turin, Parma, Bologna, Fiorentina, Genoa, Lazio, and others.

How Italian Teams Rate In European Pro Football

Italy is regularly rated as among the most flamboyant football nations in the continent, as well as being among the top-three European countries in terms of club football ratings. The Serie A league has top four teams who generally qualify for the UEFA Champion's League. The league's top two teams directly qualify to the group phase, while the third and fourth placed clubs qualify at the third round of the competition, and also need to win a two-legged knockout tie so that they could enter the group phase.

The Triumphs and Tragedy of Italian Football

As football is considered to be the most popular sport in the nation, the country has been renowned for producing some of the world's biggest and brightest marquee players. However, the Serie A league also has its share of pitfalls and scandals. In1948-49, tragedy struck the league when a plane crash claimed the lives of the whole Torino football team.

In addition, recent match-fixing scandals during the 2005/2006 season were revealed, resulting in the investigation, arrest and trial of several Series A teams and personnels. Despite the setbacks, the Serie A continues to thrive as one of the world's best professional football leagues, and continues to maintain its fair share of die-hard fans not only in Europe, but around the world as well. Fans can keep their eyes glued to the leagues action, on cable television or on a number of Web-based live football sites that offer game reviews, football highlights and live streaming video.

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Disappointment, disbelief and great personal loss the summary of my emotions, of the day that was Saturday the 1st of July 2006, the day Brazil was knocked out of the greatest show on earth and a tragedy that would change my life significantly. There are some things in life that we least expect, yet they surprise us by happening. Brazil, the best team, favorites and defending champions, were knocked out by their old nemesis and 1998 World Cup Champions France. Happened in 1986, 1998 and 2006, Platini in 1986 and later Zidane in 1998 and again in 2006.

Zidane will always be remembered for his 1998 World Cup Final against Brazil and even more so for his head butt against Italy in 2006. The Brazilian's will always resent "Zizou" for showing Brazil the door and the French supporters will rue his headbutt. A single player had the ability to keep the best team at bay, not once but twice. Everybody thought he was finished but he showed his critics, "Form is temporary, class is permanent!" Unfortunately for Zidane he got too big for his head. One of the greatest comebacks in football was marred by one act of rage.

A day of great loss to my family and me, the unbelievable was happening around us. England had been knocked out, yet again not with their stars not playing close to their potential or for that matter the worth of the salaries they get in the Premier League. Brazil and France were very evenly matched; I had a feeling one mistake or one act of brilliance could be the result of the match. Still in shock as life for my family and me would never be the same, I was driving listening to the commentary on the radio and heard Henry had scored for France. There was already enough disbelief on my mind but my hands went up in disappointment as I knew that that was the end of the road for Brazil.

End of the road, ironic is the only way that my emotions could be described as it was also the end of the road for a Brazilian fan in shock of their loss to France and the end of an era for my family. Though being worried about football was the last thing that made sense at such trying times, I suppose it served as a way to express the shock and disappointment.

The end of an era signals the beginning of a new one and the rise of Italy from the football match fixing scandal in 1982 and now in 2006 where clubs like Juventus and Lazio were relegated as a punishment to the second division to win the World Cup after their triumph in 1982 and utter disappointment in the missed penalty of Baggio in the 1994, Totti in 2006 heralded a new era for the Italians showing great tenacity in the face of adversity.

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In this day and age, the NFL is cracking down on celebrations like never before. Whether you love them or hate them, players celebrating is just a part of the game and has always been that way. Sure, we all love the classy Barry-Sanders-toss-the-ball-to-the-ref sort of thing, but sometimes watching a good ol' Terrell Owens or Chad Johnson doing their crazy antics is great entertainment and can make football enjoyable to watch.

With the NFL's greedy tentacles stretching every crevice of American society to suck in more and more casual fans, you'd think the NFL would want to enhance entertainment value, rather than reduce it. But alas, refs are now inclined to throw flags for virtually any celebration, especially one done with teammates. Just the other day T.O. was flagged for doing a celebration where he pretended to start a race in the Olympics, no doubt imitating popular track star Usain Bolt. He was subsequently fined 15 yards for "unsportsmanlike conduct". I ask you, what is so "unsportsmanlike" about that? It's not like he's taunting the other team, which he did (ironically against Dallas when he was with San Francisco) by standing on the Dallas star at midfield and spreading his arms wide.

In my opinion, that is the stuff that needs to get flagged, not the celebrations that are made for humor and to get people excited. I tell you this, back when Chad Johnson was pulling all sorts of things out of his bag of tricks, people honestly looked forward to watching Bengals games just to see what he would do next. It's things like that which make the game fun for everyone, including those who aren't as die hard of fans as the rest of us.

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