Category: Serie B 2019-2020

Meet Spezia, The Serie A Debutant Who Already Won The Italian Title

Italian Football, Serie A, Serie A 2020-2021, Serie B, Serie B 2019-2020, Spezia
The participant roster for the Serie A 2020-21 is now complete as Spezia grabbed the last promotion spot overcoming Frosinone at the end of a tense double-leg playoff Final. This will be the first time that Spezia’s Aquile are featured in the Serie A, despite having a more than centennial history and even boasting an Italian title of some sort. How is that even possible?
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Filippo and Simone Inzaghi, a Tale of Two Coaching Brothers

Benevento, Lazio, Serie A, Serie A 2019-2020, Serie B, Serie B 2019-2020
Italian football has had it’s a fair share of footballing families, including the Maldini, the Baresi, the Cannavaro, and the Inzaghi. All of the above-mentioned made a name for themselves, but only the latter made history by becoming the first two coaching brothers - Simone at Lazio and Filippo at Benevento - to sit atop both the Serie A and B concurrently.
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