Had a letter published in this months magazine complaining about the lack of information on smaller teams in Italy. The Ed said that if anyone wants to see more coverage on Serie B and smaller teams they should send an e-mail to editorial@calcioitalia.co.uk and let him know. I personally think there is far too much coverage of the big team like Juve, Roma and Milan, I would much prefer to hear about some of the lesser known teams like Mantova and Cremonese. Anyone agree?
I agree that the coverage of the smaller teams is poor in the magazine - and on this website for that matter. Trying to get regular information about Fiorentina when they were in Serie C2B was almost impossible.
However, I suspect that the majority of people who buy the magazine are fans of either Juve, Milan or Inter and the magazine therefore caters for them for than any of the other teams.
I'll send an e-mail though. And I quite enjoy watching Serie B on Eurosport - more entertaining than La Liga!!
It more information on what is happening to the smaller teams. Like Foggia who a few years ago did really well in serie A with players like Signori, Biano and Shalimov but how are they doing now? Are they struggling financially have they just been bought over and the new owners trying to get them back to serie A? I don't know. What about Manyova who have come from nowhere to lead Serie B. What is their story? Who are their best players? Salernitana got relegated due to bankrupcy, how are they doing now? Have they been bought over or run by administrators? I just think every week there is pages and pages telling all about Milan star players but everyone knows about Cafu and Maldini as it is.
Yeh but Napoli are a big team. What about Venezia, Salernitana, Genoa and Perugia they all went bust and got relegated but they never appear in the magazine.
i would suspect that its pretty pointless sending an email to the magazine re this-look at the following months issues letters page-theyre pretty loathe to publish anything other than praise. The magazine is interested in juve,inter and milan only and is unfortunately aimed at a less mature market,its more shoot than world soccer;a great league is rather sadly very poorly served in the english language and unfortunately i think the bravo coverage is going the same way
We have taken the step this past issue of taking the Serie B results down to scores and scorers to give us more room in this section to cover Serie B stories and introduce a Serie C wrap-up as well. In the pipeline we have an interview with Torino owner Urbano Cairo in the next issue and are hoping to arrange an interview with Verona’s new Welsh international striker Craig Davies. It is unfortunate that we have not the space to regularly cover the smaller sides but to be fair we have carried extensive features on Torino’s summer revival, Verona’s 1985 Scudetto, Livorno’s Cristiano Lucarelli, Udinese’s Serse Cosmi and former Empoli boss Mario Somma in recent months. However, it is a simple fact that the vast majority of our readers are interested in the big Serie A clubs so we have to cater for that, which does mean the smaller sides often lose out. Nevertheless, thanks for your thoughts, we will take them into account at future planning meetings.
Steve Wilson Production Editor Calcio Italia
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I used to get the magazine too but to be honest by the time its printed its all old news.. especially for living here and alot of the time I have no idea where they get their info from... do any of the writers actually live over here (Italy)?!
i have to reply to steve wilson of calcio italia. Teams going to the wall,especially meoderately big ones like torino and genoa,is news and is relevant,these modern times are a great deal more unforgiving for overextended football clubs than the past and so bancruptcy could happen to almost any team. Calcio italia has almost totally ignored the events of the summer(see the reply in the magazine to D.Andersons letter) and this is unforgivable and the main reasion i no longer subscribe.
i have to reply to steve wilson of calcio italia. Teams going to the wall,especially meoderately big ones like torino and genoa,is news and is relevant,these modern times are a great deal more unforgiving for overextended football clubs than the past and so bancruptcy could happen to almost any team. Calcio italia has almost totally ignored the events of the summer(see the reply in the magazine to D.Andersons letter) and this is unforgivable and the main reasion i no longer subscribe. As for the excuse that there is no room,in the last few months it has had ;"viera watch"(what is the point of that?);lots of posters;a christmas boardgame;a year planner.How about something for the grown up readership?
Originally posted by Roma Girl: do any of the writers actually live over here (Italy)?!
I think one of them lives in Firenze (John Pitonzo, or something?), but he spent very little time talking about Fiorentina which I found a bit strange.
I think that they had quite a few contributors with Italian names (Campanale and Rinaldi), but that don't mean squat. There's a 35 year old 'Italian' woman (parents born: Napoli / she born: Acton) in my office, and last week I had to explain to her what pizza calzone is...
Originally posted by Mezz: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Roma Girl: do any of the writers actually live over here (Italy)?!
I think one of them lives in Firenze (John Pitonzo, or something?), but he spent very little time talking about Fiorentina which I found a bit strange. QUOTE] Why is that "strange"? Do journalists who live in London - or lets say Islington, to narrow it down a bit... - only talk about Arsenal? Do people who live in Manchester all support ManU(re)? Do Fiorentina supporters only come from Florence...?
Originally posted by Ivano: Why is that "strange"? Do journalists who live in London - or lets say Islington, to narrow it down a bit... - only talk about Arsenal? Do people who live in Manchester all support ManU(re)? Do Fiorentina supporters only come from Florence...?
Who said anything about a columnist only talking about one team? All I said was that the bloke spent very little time talking about Fiorentina, which I found unusual seeing as his column was called 'Postcard From Florence'.
Also, Florence is a one-team town, unlike London and Manchester, so fook knows where you're going with that...
Originally posted by Ivano: Why is that "strange"? Do journalists who live in London - or lets say Islington, to narrow it down a bit... - only talk about Arsenal? Do people who live in Manchester all support ManU(re)? Do Fiorentina supporters only come from Florence...?
Who said anything about a columnist only talking about one team? All I said was that the bloke spent very little time talking about Fiorentina, which I found unusual seeing as his column was called 'Postcard From Florence'.
Also, Florence is a one-team town, unlike London and Manchester, so fook knows where you're going with that...
I didn't say anything about a columnist talking about only one team ("so fook knows where you're going with that") I just said what was wrong with someone not writing about Fiorentina, even in a column called "Florence Postcard", not "FIORENTINA Postcard"...? The column is an engine for "wry thoughts" from the said John Pitonzo...
I think they could trim a bit of stuff out the magazine, there's quite a lot of stuff that really if you're interested in Calcio then you'll have found out about on FI website or whatever ages ago. Personally I'm never interested in the Azzurri coverage, but that's just cos I find international football pretty boring anyway, but I don't know why there is so much of it when there is not even a major tournament (finals) on.
