Rossoblu - A Cagliari Story

News from Stadio Sant'Ellia:




Today, Cagliari president, Massimo Cellino, announced that Ivo Pulga is no longer in charge of the first team. He said that a coach with a lack of ambition such as Ivo does not have any chance of working for his club.

Later he presented new team manager, Vincenzo Manini, a former italian international with a few Italy call ups. He did not manage any important clubs in hes' carrer, but he was very pleased that the club president trusted him.

Cagliari is a small team in Serie A. Their main objective, every year, is to avoid relegation and, if possible, be in the top half of the table.

Cagliari Calcio is a team founded in 1920, until last season played their home games at Stadio Sant'Ellia, but a fight with the local authorities and the club president made them give up on the stadium and build a new home in Quartu Saint'Elena, called IS Arena. Stadium capacity is 16200 seats, more than enough for the team.




Cagliari First Team:

Goalkeepers:

Michael Agazzi
Vlada Avramov
Riccardo Anedda

Defenders:

Lorenzo Ariaudo
Vincenzo Camilleri
Danilo Avelar
Davide Astori
Francesco Pisano
Luca Rossettini
Gabriele Perico

Midfielders:

Radja Nainggolan
Daniele Conti
Andrea Cossu
Sebastian Eriksson
Daniele Dessena
Pablo Cepellini
Federico Casarini

Forwards:

Mauricio Pinilla
Nene
Thiago Ribeiro
Marco Sau
Victor Ibarbo

Vincenzo Manini said in his first press conference that hie objective for the first season will be to finish in the first half of the table and build a team that can, in 2-3 years, fight for an European Place.

Next update will be pre-season and first halp of the season.

Pre-season and transfer updates:

Cagliari Reserves 4-2
Ternana 0-0
Juve Stabia 3-2
Fondi 3-1
Borussia Dortmund 0-2

Only onde defeat in friendly games, a good start overall.

Transfers made:



August update:

Coppa Italia:

Calgiari - Reggina 2-0 (Dessena, Pinilla)

Serie A:

Cagliari - Inter 2-1 (Thiago Ribeiro, Pinilla)

A great start of the season, a perfect game in when we came back from 1-0 to beat Inter 2-1.

September Update:

Parma - Cagliari 1-3 (Thiago Ribeiro 2, Albin Ekdal)

Cagliari - Udinese 0-1

Palermo - Cagliari 0-3 (Thiago Ribeiro, Andrea Cossu, Nene)

Cagliari - Atalanta 2-1 (Thiago Ribeiro 2, Pinilla)

Star player so far: Thiago Ribeiro

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A great start for us with only one defeat against Udinese at home, a game that we didn't desearve to lose.

October:

Catania - Cagliari 1-2 (Nene, Nainggolan)

Cagliari - AS Roma 3-0 (Pinilla, Nene, Ragatzu)

Genoa - Cagliari 1-2 (Pinilla)

Player of the month: Mauricio Pinilla

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November Update:

Cagliari - Torino 0-0

AC Milan - Cagliari 0-0

Cagliari - Siena 3-0 (Pinilla, Thiago Ribeiro, Nene)

Bologna - Cagliari 1-3 (Pinilla, Nainggolan, Nene)

TIM Cup:

Siena - Cagliari 3-1 AET (Dessena)

Player of the month: Mauricio Pinilla



Leaders of Seria A after 12 games.

December Update:

Chievo - Cagliari 1-0

Cagliari - Pescara 3-2 (Pinilla 2, Ceppelini)

Fiorentina - Cagliari 2-2 (Nainggolan, Pinilla)

Cagliari - Napoli 2-2 (Ceppelini, Pinilla)

Lazio - Cagliari 2-2 (Marco Sau 2)

Not a good period for us, only one win in 5 games, we conceded a lot of goals.

Again, player of the month: Mauricio Pinilla

January Games:

Cagliari - Sampdoria 2-0 (Tissone o.g., Thiago Ribeiro)

Juventus - Cagliari 2-3 (Pinilla 3)

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Fantastic game for us, Juventus lead 2-0 at half time, an incredible second half performance saw the rossoblu team come back and win 3-2, with the winning goal beeing scored in the 90th minute.

Inter - Calgiari 1-2 (Pinilla 2)

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Another fantastic game for Cagliari, winning at Giuseppe Meazza. People ar starting to take the Sardi club seriously, we are top of the league with AC Milan and Juventus behind us.

Cagliari - Parma 1-1 (Dessena)

Fantastic month for us, we came with two great wins in Turin and Milano.

Player of the month: Mauricio Pinilla.

February Update:

Udinese - Cagliari 4-2 (Cossu, Hertaux o.g.)

Cagliari - Palermo 0-2

Atalanta - Cagliari 1-1 (Stendardo o.g.)

Cagliari - Catania 0-0

We only got two points from 12, a bad period for the team, we expected more from these four games.

March:

AS Roma - Cagliari 0-1 (Pinilla)

Cagliari - Genoa 2-0 (Pinilla, Nene)

AC Torino - Cagliari 0-3 (Eriksson, Thiago Ribeiro, Ragatzu)

Cagliari - AC Milan 2-2 (Ariaudo, Perico)

Difficul game, we had to come from behind two times, bad we managed not to lose, and we maintain our position in the top 3 of the Serie A.

Siena - Cagliari 0-1 (Andrea Cossu)

We got our good form back, after a team meeting at the begining of the month.

Player of the month: Davide Astori



April Update:

Cagliari - Bologna 2-2 (Astori, Dessena)

Pescara - Cagliari 1-3 (Marco Sau 2, Eriksson)

Cagliari - Chievo 0-0

Cagliari - Fiorentina 4-1 (Neto o.g., Davide Astori, Thiago Ribeiro, Nainggolan)


Four games of the season and we are top of the table. We have some difficult games coming, with 2 away games at Napoli and Sampdoria and 2 home games with Lazio and Juventus. Las game of the season against Juventus might well be the game that decides the Serie A champions.

Player of the month: Davide Astori

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May update and the final of the season:

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Napoli, a team with no real objective for the final of the season:

Napoli - Cagliari 0-5 (0-5) (Sebastian Eriksson 16, Thiago Ribeiro 27, 37, Nainggolan 31, Forren 44)

Fantastic result!!! We were very motivated right from the start and were all over Napoli in the first 45 minutes.

Player of the match: Thiago Ribeiro

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Cagliari - Lazio 2-0 (1-0) (Sebastian Eriksson 45+1, Andrea Cossu 60)

Two games to go, we are top of the table, that looks like this:

1. Cagliari 74p
2. Juventus 71p
3. AC Milan 70p

A win in the next game at Sampdoria Genoa makes Cagliari favourites for the Serie A Championship!

Hope someone is following this, i will be back in a couple of hours with the season ending.

Nice one dude, Cagliari rarely get in to tha top half of any of my saves let alone challenge for the title!

Bring it back to the Saint Elia!!

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A must win game for Cagliari, a must not lose game for Sampdoria.

If Cagliari win, then they are favourites for the title, if Sampdoria doesn't lose they remain in Serie A next season.

Sampdoria - Cagliari 3-3 (3-1) (Pozzi 25, 38, Eder 43/ Eriksson 16, 85, Nene 83)

We came back from two behind to earn a draw. A dissapointing result for us, with Milan and Juve winning their games.

As it stands, the table looks like this:

1. Cagliari 75p
2. Juventus 74p
3. AC Milan 73p

A draw in the last home game against current champions, Juventus, means that Cagliari are Serie A champions.

Be right back with an exciting final day in Italian football.

Final day preview:

Title battle:

1. Cagliari 75p
2. Juventus 74p
3. AC Milan 73p

Cagliari - Juventus Torino

Cagliari has two results for champions, win or draw. Juventus needs a win for becoming champions.

If Cagliari lose and Milan win, the Sardi club can finish in 3rd position.

Ac Milan - Palermo

Milan has no chance of winning the title. They have a chance of reaching 2rd place if they win and Cagliari loses.

Relegation battle:

It is clear that Lazio or Fiorentina wil relegate, both teams cannot be saved from Serie B.

17. Pescara 36p
18. Lazio 35p
19. Fiorentina 34p
20. Siena 31p (relegated)

Pescara - Inter

If Pescara win they are saved, no matter what Lazio or Fiorentina do.

Napoli - Lazio

Lazio desperately need a win and hope that Inter win in Pescara.

Fiorentina - Sampdoria

The Violas' chances stand in two results, both Pescara and Lazio have to lose if they are to avoid relegation.

It's the most exciting final day in Serie A from 5th of may 2002, when Juve won the title winning in Udine and Inter losing in Roma at Lazio.

We will be having a special broadcast for the final day of Serie A with two episodes, title battle and relegation battle.

19th may 2013, a very busy final season day in Serie A.

A historic day for Cagliari, they cand win the title after 43 years.

Juventus can retain the title they won last season.

Start in the 38th day of the Serie A Championship 2012/2013:

Live from IS Arena in Quartu Saint'Elena: full stadium in Cagliari, with 5.000 Juve fans coming in the Sardinean city. Outsaid the stadium the club organized a special place for the fans with a huge Tv transmision for those that couldn't fit in the stadium. It is estimated that 50.000 fans are waching the game from there.

Our commentator from San Siro: 52.000 fans came to the game today, they are hoping that Cagliari loses and they avoid Champions League play-offs.

Live from Stadio Adriatico in Pescara: 20.000 fans filled the stadium. Difficult game for the dolphins, they need a win if they want to remain in Serie A and if they want home support, they surely have it.

We move to Stadio San Paolo: Hello from San Paolo, even if Napoli are not fighting for anything, 48.000 fans came to see their favourites in the final game of the season. 15.000 Lazio fans came a long way from Rome, to support their team.

Live from Florence: Hello from Stadio Artemio Franchi, only 23.000 fans came to this game. It a realy tense atmosphere here. There were some protest from the viola fans and we expect some more as we go on in to the game.

In a few minutes we will begin the final day in Serie A, stay tuned, we will be right back.

We are back with the kick off of the 38th day of Serie A:

Kick off all over Italy, only 90 minutes away from knowing who is champion and who relegates.

And we have out first goal, Roma take the lead against Chievo, Mattia Destro with the goal.

News from Turin, Atalanta have opened the scoring against AC Torino, own goal from Oghbona.

We have action from Renato Dall'Ara, 1-0 for Bologna against Parma, Pasquato, the goal scorer.

Now we go to Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa opens the scoring against Catania, Jara Martinez on 24th minute.

News from IS Arena, Juve has the first real chance of the game. Alessandro Matri misses the target from close range. That was a real chance for juve to take the lead. Instant reply from Cagliari, Eriksson with the chance, powerfull shot from the edge of the area, but Buffon saves. Things are realy heating up in Cagliari, with neighter team in control.

Any news from San Siro? Hello, not realy. Milan players look as if they ar on vacation, Palermo controling the game so far, but no real chances yet.

No important news from Pescara, Napoli or Florence as we end the first 30 minutes of the games.

Second goal in Bologna, 2-0 for the home team, Garics scoring the goal.

2-0 for Atalanta in Turin, Capelli scoring with a powerfull shot.

Second goal in Genoa and Rome, 2-0 for both home teams, an own goal from Andujar makes it 2-0 for Genoa against Catania and Mattia Destro makes the double for AS Roma against Chievo.

News in Siena, Siena take the lead with Udinese, 1-0, goal from Bolzoni.

Half time all over Italy, no goals in the important games.

We will be back with the second halfs after the brake.

Review of the first half and half time scores:

Cagliari - Juventus 0-0

Bologna - Parma 2-0 (Pasquato 23, Garics 31)

Fiorentina - Sampdoria 0-0

Genoa - Catana 2-0 (Martinez 24, Andujar o.g. 43)

AC Milan - Palermo 0-0

Napoli - Lazio 0-0

Pescara - Inter 0-0

AS Roma - Chievo 2-0 (Destro 11, 42)

Siena - Udinese 1-0 (Bolzoni 45+1)

Torino - Atalanta 0-2 (Oghbona o.g. 22, Cappeli 39)

No goals in all important games and no important goal chances, except for Cagliari and Juve. Stay tuned for the second half, in just a few minutes

And we're under way with the second half in Italy, the last half for the 2012/1013 season.

Action from Pescara: 5 minutes away into the second half and we have our first goal. Inter opens the scoring in Pescara, it's Alvarez with the goal. The forward escapes one on one with the keeper and scores. Nerves in Pescara! Back to you and another stadium.

Back to Pescara! Thank you, another goal, instant reply from Pescara, it's 1-1 and the dolphins are back in it. Bjarnason scoresc only one minute from Inters' goal. 16 yards placed shot into the corner and Pescara hopes again to avoid relegation.

Turin, goal in Turin! It's 1-2, AC Torino are back in the game, Torta scoring with a close range header.

Napoli, Napoli, goal in Napoli! 1-0 for Lazio. 15.000 fans explode with joy as the Biancocelesti are in the lead. Is Miroslav Klose who scores with a good finish from close range from a cross by Radu Stefan. As it stands Lazio are saved and Pescara relegate.

Florence plese! Thing are getting from bad to worse for Fiorentina as Juan Antonio has opened the scoring for Sampdoria. Viola fans exploded and are fighting with the stewards, they are trying to break onto the field. Play has stoped for the moment and players are in the dressing room.

Turin again! It's 2-2, AC Torino come back from 0-2 to equalize, same scorer, Torta.

Pescara please, goal in Pescara! Third goal in Pescara, it's Rodrigo Palacio who gives Inter the lead. A combination with Cassano leaves Palacio one on one with the keeper and it's 1-2. Pescara are in Serie B again.

IS Arena, please, goal in Cagliari! IS Arena and the fans square near the stadium are a voulcano. Cagliari has opened the scoring, it's 1-0 for the Sardi club. Sebastian Eriksson scores from close range, from a cross by Thiago Ribeiro. Juve have to work realy hard to come back in the title race, they need to score 2 times to win.

Pescara again! It's 2-2, Modesto score the equalizer for Pescara. They are back in the relegation fight again.

Goal in Napoli, Napoli please! Lazio fans don't look good at all. Napoli scores and it's 1-1. Edinson Cavani finishes a solo effort and silences the 15.000 fans from Rome. Lazio are in Serie B again.

We go now to San Siro: It looks like a vacantion game so far, 0-0 an neighter team is looking that they want to win. Wait a second.....it's 1-0. Goooooooooal Palermo, Dybala scores a superb goal from 30 yards, Abbiati had no chance. Milan players look very surprised by this goal. So AC Milan - Palermo 0-1 in the 69th minute!

20 minutes left from all games, be right back just after a short break.

We are back in action for the last 20 minute. (Even if nobody seams to be following

Goal in Napoli! Miroslav Klose makes the double, Lazio are in advantage and are saved from relegation.

Pescara, please! Gooooooooooooooooal, Pescara, Modesto scores again in the 85th minute and Pescara are in advantage, it's 3-2. Goal from a corner kick, Modesto rises above all Inter defenders and scores.

Cagliari, please! We have a goal and a very entertaining end for the game. Juve scores, it's 1-1. Brzagli scores from a corner kick by Pirlo. We have 5 minutes left of the game and Juve will surely want to score again.

We are entering extra time in all games and it seams that Cagliari are champions!

Goal in Cagliari! .................It's Juventus who scores again. Alessandro Matri scores from a terible mistake in the Cagliari defence. It's 2-1 Juventus in the 91st minute.

Whistles all over Italy, Juventus are champions of Italy again in a game that was not for those that have a weak heart.


Cagliari did not manage the miracle, they lost but the fans did not seam upset. They applauded the team as they did a tour of honor to salute the fans.

So, final result:

Cagliari - Juventus 1-2 (Eriksson 63/ Brzagli 86, Matri 90+1)

Bologna - Parma 4-1

Fiorentina - Sampdoria 0-2

Genoa - Catana 2-0 (Martinez 24, Andujar o.g. 43)

AC Milan - Palermo 0-1 (Dybala 69)

Napoli - Lazio 1-2

Pescara - Inter 3-2

AS Roma - Chievo 2-0 (Destro 11, 42)

Siena - Udinese 3-0

Torino - Atalanta 2-2

The table looks like this:



Next update will be with transfers and much more, if anyone is following!