08-29-2012, 02:52 AM
(08-28-2012, 10:37 PM)Acmir Wrote: And that's why I hate teams like Udinese, which are ruining the image of Serie A, reaching Champions League qualification and then selling all their best players, failing to qualify for Champions League against the mighty Braga. Because of teams like these Serie A will have only two participants in the Champions League. Bravo
Serie A was stricken with disease after calicopoli. It meant a power vacuum, sucking in bad teams taking our (formerly 4) CL spots.The replacement teams that took Juve's place were bad and that resulted in serie A being downgraded to 3 CL spots. The desease festered in Serie A's crumbling stadia. And finally Milan unplugged the cord by selling Ibra - the last serie A superstar. They even went so far as to nail the coffin with the sale of Thiago Silva. Serie A is indeed dead. I really can't believe how quickly this all happened.
People who watch sports long enough will tell you things are cyclical; that Serie A will rise again. Not in today's media world. The brand name of Barca, RM and the entire premiership has made serie A into the ugly little sister of football. And those competitors have all the momentum to obliterate us (serie A) off the map.
Our only hope now is to sell our souls to foreign oil money and hope to convert from our current "sellers-team" mentality, into a team that has the backing to want, and be able, to win.
How did it come to this?