Serie A 2007-08 Totally Explained

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The 2007-08 Serie A football season is the seventy-sixth since its establishment, and started on August 26, 2007 and ended on 18 May 2008. Internazionale successfully defended the championship on the final day of the season, finishing first with 85 point, three ahead of AS Roma.

Events

Plusvalenze investigation

Inquiries are being conducted by the CO.VI.SOC. (Italian football's financial watchdogs) into the finances of four Serie A clubs (Internazionale, Milan, Sampdoria, and Reggina) who stand accused of falsely inflating player values - a practice known as plusvalenze in Italian - in order to qualify financially for the 2005-06 Serie A campaign. If the allegations prove true, penalties could range from fines to point deductions, relegation to Serie B, and even the stripping of Internazionale's 2005-06 scudetto (which was actually stripped from Juventus as a result of the Calciopoli scandal before being awarded to Internazionale).

Lazio fan killed by police

In the morning of November 11, 2007 26-year old Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri, a DJ from Rome, was killed, apparently by a policeman, after the police had clashed with Juventus ultras on the A1 Motorway service station of Badia al Pino in Arezzo. Early reports suggested that a stray bullet from a gun, set to distract the group of ultras, hit the Lazio fan in the neck as he sat in a car and killed him.
Sandri's death was later shown to have been caused by a tragic error by a policeman who allegedly didn't recognize him as a football fan. Prosecutors then opted initially to open an inquiry into manslaughter against the policeman.

2007-2008 teams

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2006-2007 season
Atalanta B.C.	Bergamo	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	26,393	8th in Serie A
Cagliari Calcio	Cagliari	Stadio Sant'Elia	23,486	16th in Serie A
Calcio Catania	Catania	Stadio Angelo Massimino	23,420	13th in Serie A
Empoli F.C.	Empoli	Stadio Carlo Castellani	19,795	7th in Serie A
ACF Fiorentina	Florence	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence	47,282	6th in Serie A
Genoa C.F.C.	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris (Marassi)	36,685	3rd in Serie B
F.C. Internazionale Milano	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)	82,955	Serie A Champions
Juventus F.C.	Turin	Stadio Delle Alpi	69,000	Serie B Champions
S.S. Lazio	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	82,307	3rd in Serie A
A.S. Livorno Calcio	Livorno	Stadio Armando Picchi	19,238	11th in Serie A
A.C. Milan	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)	82,955	4th in Serie A
S.S.C. Napoli	Naples	Stadio San Paolo	60,240	2nd in Serie B
U.S. Città di Palermo	Palermo	Stadio Renzo Barbera	37,242	5th in Serie A
Parma F.C.	Parma	Stadio Ennio Tardini	27,906	12th in Serie A
Reggina Calcio	Reggio Calabria	Stadio Oreste Granillo	27,454	14th in Serie A
A.S. Roma	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	82,307	2nd in Serie A
U.C. Sampdoria	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris (Marassi)	36,685	9th in Serie A
A.C. Siena	Siena	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Siena	15,373	15th in Serie A
Torino F.C.	Turin	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	27,168	17th in Serie A
Udinese Calcio	Udine	Stadio Friuli	41,652	10th in Serie A

League table

Serie A 2007-08 Winners
Internazionale 16th Title

2007-2008 results table

Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top. updated to games played May 17, 2008

Top goalscorers

Only players with at least 10 goals Updated to games played May 17, 2008

21 goals

Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)

20 goals

David Trezeguet (Juventus)

19 goals

Marco Borriello (Genoa)

17 goals

Antonio Di Natale (Udinese)

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale)

Adrian Mutu (Fiorentina)

15 goals

Amauri (Palermo)

Kaká (Milan)

14 goals

Goran Pandev (Lazio)

Tommaso Rocchi (Lazio)

Francesco Totti (Roma)

13 goals

Julio Ricardo Cruz (Internazionale)

Massimo Maccarone (Siena)

12 goals

Claudio Bellucci (Sampdoria)

Cristiano Doni (Atalanta)

Fabio Quagliarella (Udinese)

11 goals

Filippo Inzaghi (Milan)

10 goals

Robert Acquafresca (Cagliari)

Nicola Amoruso (Reggina)

Antonio Cassano (Sampdoria)

Francesco Tavano (Livorno)

Coaches

Club	Head coach	From	To
Atalanta
Cagliari



Empoli


Genoa
Internazionale
Juventus
Lazio


Napoli
Palermo






Sampdoria
Siena
Siena

2007-08 events

Atalanta: on June 9, 2007 Luigi Del Neri was announced as new head coach following Stefano Colantuono's departure to Palermo. However, Giampaolo, still linked to Cagliari by a contract, turned down the opportunity to return. The next day, the club announced that it had rejected Sonetti's resignation. Sonetti was ultimately sacked only a few days later, on December 27, following a crushing 5–1 loss to Fiorentina, and replaced by Davide Ballardini, who served as Cagliari head coach in the early weeks of the 2005–06 season. However, on June 27 Verona announced they were not giving Ficcadenti permission to leave the club and move to Reggina. On July 1, Reggina finally announced on their website to have appointed Ficcadenti as coach, after he successfully rescinded his contract with Verona. However Mandorlini was sacked on November 12, after a 2–3 home loss to Livorno which left the team in last place, and Beretta accepted to return at Siena.

Torino: on June 6, 2007 former Sampdoria boss Walter Novellino was announced head coach for the new season, replacing Gianni De Biasi. On April 16, 2008, following a string of disappointing results that left the granata only four points ahead the relegation zone, leading to heavy criticisms from the supporting fanbase, Torino president Urbano Cairo chose to sack Novellino and reappoint De Biasi, a fan favourite, as head coach.

Udinese: on June 5, 2007 former Catania boss Pasquale Marino was officially unveiled as new head coach.

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