Tag: Lazio

DT Exclusive: Why Marcelo Bielsa quit Lazio after two days

The enigmatic Marcelo Bielsa quit as Lazio manager just two days after the club officially announced his arrival. This obviously did not please Lazio, as they are now threatening legal action against the Argentine even though they promptly announced Simone Inzaghi (Pippo’s younger brother) would replace him.

For his part, Bielsa says “After four weeks working together with you, we could not sign any of the seven additions in the work program expressly approved by the President Claudio Lotito.” He adds that the club agreed to sign at least four of those players by July 5, but that didn’t happen, either. “For my style of work we needed to have these players arrive in a timely manner to train,” he concludes.

This, however, was not the offense that sent Bielsa over the edge. The following is a transcript of the conversation that ended his 48-hour reign.

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DTotD: Felipe Melo kicks Lazio player in the ear, gets sent off

Felipe Melo, who you might remember as the man who used Arjen Robben as a doormat during the 2010 World Cup, is still finding creative ways to assault people with his feet after all these years. During Inter’s Serie A match against Lazio, Melo was shown a straight red for proving that he could use Lucas Biglia’s shoulder as a foot rest.

(BeIn Sports)
(BeIn Sports)

Inter lost 2-1.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

Lazio keeper injures himself celebrating goal

Everything was going so well for Lazio keeper Federico Marchetti in Monday’s match against Sampdoria. He was working on a clean sheet late in the second half when Alessandro Matri scored to put Lazio up 1-0. Thrilled by this turn of events, Marchetti sprinted out of his area to try and celebrate with his teammates, but something went wrong. Very, very wrong.

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Disgruntled Lazio fans bring 10 bags of manure to training ground

Upset that Lazio haven’t won a league match since October, fans dropped off 10 bags of manure at the club’s training ground. Are they convinced that helping the players train on a better fertilized pitch will help them win? No, they had a different use in mind for all that manure.

From Football Italia:

Ten bags of manure were dumped outside the training ground, accompanied by a banner reading: “You want to make us drown in [expletive]. But first we want to make you eat it.”

A second banner insulted Lotito, with the fans also signing songs decrying the Aquile President.

This protest follows Roma fans’ training ground delivery of carrots last week (because their team played like scared rabbits, you see). Who knew the people of Rome turn so agricultural when they get angry?

Lazio’s eagle mascot attacked by a crow in mid-air before Serie A match

(REUTERS/Max Rossi)
(REUTERS/Max Rossi)

As omens go, seeing a crow attack your mascot in mid-air before a match is the type of thing that would make you want to send everyone home immediately and try again another day. But Lazio must have been feeling brave, since they went ahead with their match against Chievo Verona even after a crow attacked their eagle mascot, Olimpia, above the Stadio Olimpico.

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Francesco Totti scores record-breaking derby goal, takes selfie with his phone

Francesco Totti is a 38-year-old man, but for a few moments during Sunday’s Rome derby, he was a teenager again. The Roma captain scored twice in the second half to come back from a 2-0 deficit against Lazio and his 64th-minute equalizer was a stunner of a flying karate kick volley at the far post. He then celebrated by taking a selfie with his own phone in front of the Roma fans of the Curva Sud.

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