Zampa-Madness

Records were meant to be broken and Zamparini’s actions over the past month did just that.  Writing for Football Italia, the situation regarding the tumultuous past few weeks is all explained: You’ll never understand the world of Maurizio Zamparini. It all started with the sacking of Zamparini’s longest contiguously tenured coach after 776 days on the […]

A Good Start

Abdelhamid El Kaoutari celebrates his match-winning goal for Palermo against Genoa

A 90th minute winner, a clean sheet, a solid display and the full three points is a great way to kick off the 2015-16 Serie A season. Palermo had not won their opening fixture since the 2011-12 season in the 4-3 thriller over Inter led by Devis Mangia. Ironically, the man coaching Inter at the time […]

Summer Snapshot

Palermo continue to prepare for the upcoming 2015-16 Serie A season under the watchful eye of Beppe Iachini.   The Rosanero are in phase two of preseason training, moving from their annual digs in Bad Kleinkerchheim, Austria to the mountainous commune of Temù in Brescia, Italy. There are plenty of new faces replacing those already departed […]

Law of the Ex

In Italy, there is an expectation that a team must not only win, but do so entertainingly. On Wednesday night, Palermo managed to win, but it was anything but entertaining – save for the winning goal and celebration that followed. All that matters, though, was that Beppe Iachini’s Palermo walked away from a relegation rival with […]