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Mario Balotelli has “improved in relation to previous years” despite a difficult start to the season, according to Nice teammate Dante. Balotelli, who arrived two weeks late and reportedly overweight for preseason training, has been limited to just three league appearances. Dante publicly criticised Balotelli’s display in the defeat at Montpellier just over a week
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Massimiliano Allegri was happy with Juventus’ 3-1 win over Napoli, but admits the team must improve to secure the Serie A title this season. ESPN FC’s Mina Rzouki & Paolo Bandini feel Juventus’ success against Napoli is a credit to Cristiano Ronaldo’s growing comfort with Mario Mandzukic. Outgoing Juventus general manager Beppe Marotta has said
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Giuseppe Rossi has been reprimanded but not banned for failing a doping test last May. The former Manchester United forward tested positive for a banned substance in a random test following Genoa’s clash with Benevento on May 12. At a hearing of the Italian National Anti-Doping Organisation’s (NADO) tribunal on Monday, he was ordered to
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Change is coming to Football Federation Australia, with pro-reform forces claiming victory at the end of a two-year struggle for power of the sport. Steven Lowy’s tenure as chairman — and his family’s 15-year hold on the Australian football — is set to end with the acceptance of constitutional changes at Tuesday’s extraordinary general meeting
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Watford forward Isaac Success is one of 24 players named in the latest Nigeria squad ahead of this month’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Libya. Success’ recent good form, which has seen him feature in all seven of the Hornets’ league games so far, as well as scoring two goals in the Carabao
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