Serie A - The 2007-08 season thread

Poor Rivas, hope he recovers and that this is not career threatening!

3rd time in a decade that one of our players has a heart condition... We either... I guess its a mixture of bad luck and poor medical checks before transfers.

Inter's Rivas has heart condition
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Inter defender Nelson Rivas has been diagnosed with a heart condition and could be out for at least a month while it is investigated further. The Colombian collapsed unconscious during a training session last week and was kept off the field as a precautionary measure. Today Inter confirmed tests highlighted a cardiac arrhythmia, but club doctor Professor Franco Combi played down reports it could be career-threatening. "The tests still need to be completed, but I think it was quite simply a fairly significant dystonia. A dystonia like for example what can happen to soldiers on parade. I think it's this. But as I just said, let's finish off the tests first,” commented Combi.

"Recovery time will be decided by the competent authorities, as foreseen by Italian law. It will then be a progressive recovery because he has been out for a while." The Italian laws on players with heart problems are extremely strict and there is the possibility that the authorities will not allow Rivas to continue as an athlete in the country. It is not new to Inter, who already in the past had Nwankwo Kanu and Khalilou Fadiga’s time at the club cut short by heart problems that had not been discovered before their transfers.

“For me, it's lypothymia, and lypothymia means just a blackout. We have completed the neurological tests now, and they're fine. We just need to finish off the small tests,” assured Combi. “I have only said that it's nothing serious. The diagnosis is not what was said on television. There's no serious pathology and there's nothing to worry about. We have to complete the tests now.

“There's no big risk for the player but it's right to complete the tests and do them calmly without putting too much pressure on him, because he was the first person to be worried, and he's much, much calmer now." In the wake of the tragic death of Sevilla star Antonio Puerta from a heart condition, football clubs are going to be extra careful when sudden blackouts like this occur.

I don't know much about the medical sciences, but I think heart conditions are not something that you can detect at a medical. It's something that should be monitored by a player's club during his teenage years, but often players who train with clubs lacking top class facilities (ie. most clubs in the world, esp. in the case of South American or African players) will never have such problems detected.

Agreed. But in some cases like the Fadiga one, it was a medical mistake - he has a hole in his heart or something like that, and that got detected immediately after we signed him in another medical

kas wrote:I don't know much about the medical sciences, but I think heart conditions are not something that you can detect at a medical. It's something that should be monitored by a player's club during his teenage years, but often players who train with clubs lacking top class facilities (ie. most clubs in the world, esp. in the case of South American or African players) will never have such problems detected.

a question about Tiago. When is he going to have a starting place ?
I saw that he played the whole 90 minutes during the 4-0 trash against Empoli a few days ago. He's a great player he should do well for Juventus

Roma-Inter underway. Inter keeper makes a double save, first from a Totti free kick then from the rebound shot.

What are the lineups?

And kas can you do me a favour and see if you know the name of the song for the vid I posted in the OT board. If you know, you can just PM it to me. Cheers.

Not sure, I'll check in a second.

Penalty for Inter, Ibrahimovic scores. I think it was given because Giuly blocked a header with his hands...he was sent off.

Ouch. 10 men already

Roma: Doni, Panucci, Mexes, Juan, Tonetto, De Rossi, Giuly, Mancini, Perrotta, Pizarro, Totti

Inter: Cesar, Maxwell, Cordoba, Samuel, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Cesar, Dacourt, Figo, Stankovic, Ibrahimovic

Guily sees red... Zlatan scores the resulting penalty. Good start for Inter.

It led to nothing in the end, but Totti just made one of the most amazing reverse passes I have ever seen...it was quite literally a 180 degree angle.

Roma equalise through Perotta after a mistake by one of the Inter defenders. This just got interesting!

Crespo comes in and immediatey makes an impact. 1-2 Inter

And 3-1 now for Inter. Deserved, I have to say, they've been the better team.

Roma come down to earth with a thud.

Mancio is doing good job actually. First he goes to the game with a defensive line-up. Roma start well and have Inter in the backfoot in first 10 min. Then Inter wake up and Guily decides to become a goalkeeper.

Now Mancio cranks up pressure in second half by bringing in Crespo. One man advantage is tough on Roma.

1-4 now, Roma are now collapsing all over.

4-1, Roma have caved in.

Its over. Inter are now top of the table. I have to say that the sending off was the key, though it was correct decision. Too bad we were

Some result for Inter - I thought Roma might win that one but a great result to send Inter top!

Wow 4-1, Bluenine will be happy.

I think Inter will win the league again this season.

I wonder how this will affect Roma for the big game on Tuesday?!

It's strange, I always liked inter from the Ruben Sosa days but now they are starting to win, my preference is shifting to Milan!

I guess being an Airdrie fan I just can't get used to supporting a winner team

Tbh, the game was spoiled by a red card so early in the game. Big mistake by Giuly.

Before then Roma had better of the play IMO. Inter certainly deserved to win, but then again any team playing against 10 men for almost 60 minutes should win.

airdrieunited wrote:It's strange, I always liked inter from the Ruben Sosa days but now they are starting to win, my preference is shifting to Milan!

I guess being an Airdrie fan I just can't get used to supporting a winner team

I knid of no what you mean, Inter used to be my fave Italian team mainly due to them having Ronaldo and because they always failed beautifuly and the more times it happened the more I seemed to like them.

These days they are dominating the league like Juve - who I never liked - used to. So I have gone off Inter, but (unfortunately) there arent any other teams that I like enough to transfer my suport to.

PS Ruben Sosa is/was such a great name, I used to love watching him play.

airdrieunited wrote:It's strange, I always liked inter from the Ruben Sosa days but now they are starting to win, my preference is shifting to Milan!

EXACT same i really don't like this Inter team, have no idea why. But when it was juventus milan and inter i always preferred inter

Roma 1-4 Inter highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbqAxsZX2Dk

Stupid red card for Giuly, he was never going to get away with it.

Sheffield gunner wrote:Roma 1-4 Inter highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbqAxsZX2Dk

Stupid red card for Giuly, he was never going to get away with it.

I dont know why Guily bothered it wasnt like it was the last 5 minutes.

I see Romas keeper is still $h!t , although with Kuzy in goal for us on Tuesday it will even things out

Great result, loved the game... luckily for us, Guily handed us the game on a platter. That should be a crushing blow to Roma's spirit, and hopefully ManU will make it a double whammy on tuesday!

Roma have managed 2 points from their last 3 games, and they are supposed to be the in form team... wonder what will happen when Inter hit form and Roma lose it

Inter on top of Serie A!! Fiorentina second after their 3-0 win!

The Table

1 Inter 14
2 Fiorentina 12
3 Roma 11
4 Juventus 10*
5 Napoli 10
6 Palermo 10
7 Udinese 10
8 Atalanta 9
9 Genoa 9
10 Sampdoria 8
11 Milan 7
12 Lazio 7
13 Cagliari 7
14 Parma 6
15 Catania 6
16 Empoli 5
17 Torino 4*
18 Siena 3
19 Reggina 3
20 Livorno 2
*Have played 1 game less

The Capocannonieri Race:
Ibrahimovic Inter 7 (2 pens)
Trezeguet Juventus 6
Totti Roma 4
Borriello Genoa 4 (1)
Mutu Fiorentina 4 (1)
Kaka Milan 4 (3)
Foggia Cagliari 4 (4)

Congrats bluey

Guily is an idiot