Hey guys, Forza Futbol is back. This week we cover the best of Serie A and La Liga, we tackle listener emails, and we ask the question, “Is the Azzurri ready for a Cassano call up?” We also review the past week games, talk transfer news and compare and contrast the Domestic Cups in Europe.

You can listen at www.forzafutbol.com, itunes, myspace or www.forzafutbol.podbean.com.  Enjoy and let us know what you think!

  

Welcome to Forza Futbol, a better lens at Serie A and La Liga, on today’s show we cover the best of Round 20 in Spain and Round 19 in Italy. Best of all, we have an extended segment thanking you our faithful listeners.

You can find us on itunes, myspace or www.forzafutbol.podbean.com.

On this the first episode where the three of us are together for the first time in the new year, we discuss our hopes and wishes for 2008, the last week in Spain and Italy, and the stunning debut by a Hobbit named Pato.

Listen to us at www.forzafutbol.podbean.com, itunes, or our myspace site.

Let us know what you think! Email us at forzafutbol@forzafutbol.com or post on our message board at www.forzafutbol.com.  You know you wanna.

Today on Forza Futbol. we have David Goldblatt as our special guest. He’s the author of “The Ball is Round”, a social history of the Beautiful Game, and of the Dorian Kiernsdley, Soccer Yearbooks.

Listen to a brilliant historical perspective on the beautiful game with a particular emphasis on La Liga and Serie A.

Go to www.forzafutbol.podbean.com for this brilliant interview.

Enjoy!

Today we welcome Tim Vickery, co-host for the World Football phone-in and podcast on the BBC World Service, and their South American correspondent covering the best of South American football. He gives us a rare insight into the players that have crossed the Atlantic and have impacted the leagues we cover the most - La Liga and Serie A and he spotlights those players that are ready for the limelight.

Check it out at www.forzafutbol.podbean.com, itunes, or www.myspace.com\forzafutbol!

 

Enjoy! 

I don’t normally give pub to the podcast much here on the blog, if you don’t know my friends Hannah, Elisa and I put out a weekly show covering Spain and Italy, except with real human interaction and very little snarky commentary, well just a little, since I am the guy holding the microphone so it does get a little stoopid once in awhile.

That said, I wanted to say that this is a special occasion, one of our fav journalists Guillem Balague brings a much needed bit of class and integrity to our podcast, and gives us some real insight into Spain and La Liga, oh and he does talk a little about Liverpool and Rafa Benitez (he did write that book about them winning the Champions League and everything), but I do manage to ask him about more than Hillsborough or Heysel. There is more to football than England ya know.

Go to www.forzafutbol.podbean.com, itunes, or our myspace for the interview.

Mando from FF

We are back to our original format as Forza Futbol where we talk about La Liga and Serie A in the same show. To hear this weeks episode you can download it via iTunes, just search for Forza Futbol or go to http://forzafutbol.podbean.com/. This week we discussed Capello to England, we discuss the African Cup of Nations impact on La Liga and we talked about Empoli's goal happy Nicola Pozzi.   There's a trivia contest with a book giveaway, so listen up!  And check out our message boards at www.forzafutbol.com.  Let's talk footy!