Month: December 2007

Genoa played the most bad match since the arrival of Mr. Gasperini 18 months ago. Against number last in the standings, Siena the Rossoblu-team lost the match during the first 23 minutes in which Siena scored three times.

 

In the rest of the 67 minutes Genoa was the team with the ball and we got a lot of corners (14-3), but goalkeeper Manninger of Siena never was in big troubles. Only in the 89th minute he was without any chance when Figueroa scored his first goal after a combination with our best man: Marco Borriello. 

             

Yes, it’s Marco di Vaio        (clap, clap, clap, clap)

Marco di Vaio is great        (clap, clap, clap, clap)

he’s the proud of Genoa     (clap, clap, clap, clap)

he’s scoring every game

                                   

It doesn’t matter in which team Marco di Vaio plays, the 31 years ago in Rome born striker scores everywhere. In his career he played with Lazio (3 goals), Verona (1), Bari (3), Salernitana (33), Parma (41), Juventus (18), Valencia (11), Monaco (8) and with the Italian national-team (2 goals in 14 games). Since january 2007 Marco plays with Genoa and in his first half-year he already scored 9 goals which brought Genoa back in Serie A after 12 years. This season he already scored against Cagliari and more goals are coming. Outside the field you can always find him together with our other player of Rome: Manuel Coppola. Let’s hope the two of them stay for many years with Genoa.

 Also in Holland Marco di Vaio is very popular. Dutch Serie-A striker Kevin Bobson (born in Amsterdam, raised in the youth of Ajax and now playing with Willem II in the south of Holland) named his son after our friendly striker: Divaio. So the goals will continue in the future by Divaio Bobson. 

Again Mr. Gasperini surprised everybody with his line-up. He put Papa Waigo and Di Vaio in the team on the positions of Leon and Sculli. He also chose Milanetto and not Coppola in midfield, while Scarpi had to substitute infortunate Rubinho. After a first half without goals it was Marco Borriello that opened the score 2 minutes after the break. The happiness lasted only 8 minutes when Lanna scored the equalizer: 1-1.  Both teams had opportunities to score the winning goal, but after all a draw was the right result.

Tomorrow-evening at 20.30 hours the friends of Genoa and Torino play against each other in the Olympic stadium of Torino. Despite the fact that it is forbidden to Genoa-fans to visit the match, around 500 are expected inbetween their Granata-friends. The team of Mr. Gasperini will be certainly different of last weeks. Three of our regulary line-up midfielders (Paro, Juric and Danilo) are banned because of their 4th yellow card last week. Every week it is a suprise which eleven Genoani start the match, but let’s try for tomorrow: Rubinho; Bega, Bovo, Lucarelli; Rossi, Konko, Coppola (Milanetto), Fabiano; Leon; Borriello and Figueroa.