Inter and Juventus, grate candidates to win scudetto

Inter, that is looking for its fifth consecutive league title and the Juventus, visibly improved and already settled in the first division after having ascended from the Series B two seasons ago are clear aspirants to win the next scudetto of the season 2009/10, that starts this weekend.

The Inter clearly, in the second season with the Portuguese coach José Mourinho, is the strongest team in Italy, with four consecutive scudettos and a terrific team, perhaps even stronger than in former seasons, so as much that its captain, the Argentinean veteran Javier Zanetti declared that this is the best he integrated since the season 1994/95.

Though the Inter transferred its biggest star, the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to Barcelona and for a fortune (45 millions Euros), it benefited a lot with the arrival from the Catalonian team of the frightful Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o, to whom was added, from the Genoa, also a very good attacker the Argentine Diego Milito, as well as the Brazilian Midfielder Thiago Motta and particularly the defense will be enforced with the incorporation of the Brazilian Lucio, from the Bayern Munich, and it was awaiting in the last moment that the also creative Dutch Wesley Sneijder from the Real Madrid will be also added..

Those who understand the football only relieve that the Juventus, “The old lady” of the calcio is in condition to fight the Inter for the title based on the last season team, to which also will be added the creative Brazilian Diego, coming from the German Werder Bremen and who formerly shone in the Porto and in the Santos, meanwhile in the defense outstands the return of the captain of the Italian team world champion in 2006, Fabio Cannavaro, and the registration of the Uruguayan Martín Cáceres, from Barcelona, as well as the arrival of the very good midfielder of the Brazilian team , Felipe Melo, from the Florentina.

The “Juve” will make the debut with its ex defender Ciro Ferrara, and this represents a incognita as to his rendering. Ferrara will substitute Claudio Ranieri, with what the family Agnelli, owner of the club, awaits a jump of quality in the team meanwhile is surrounded by succession problems.

There is such dispute for this season between the Inter and the Juventus, that the contest starts with a polemic between the coaches Mourinho and Marcello Lippi, because the latter, in charge of the Italian team, dared to say that this scudetto will be won by those of Torino, and that is why he was qualified as ¡”not too intelligent” by his colleague of the Milan team.

But resides these two candidates, without any doubt, this season of football starts with a feeling of low quality and clearly under the leagues such as the English or Spanish and with the approach every time more notable of the German league.

The explanation may be found in the scarce credibility in the structure of the Italian football directives due to cases of corruption as the calciópoli, and the minor possibility in good players investments adding to the withdrawal of stars such as Ibrahimovic, Aquilani, and specially Kaká, and the retirement of other renown cracks as Pavel Nedved or Paolo Maldini.

The fall in decadency of the third powerful team of the league the Milan, also has its influence in this feeling in descend. Besides of the transfer of Kaka to the Real Madrid, of Sevchenko, and of the retirement of Maldini, it should be taken into account that another of the registered stars of the last season, as Ronaldinho, did not render as expected and the average of age of the team is too high and neither counts with the coach of the last years, Carlo Ancelotti, emigrated to the Chelsea, replaced by the inexperienced Leonardo, ex player and lately sport director of the entity.

The incorporations of the Brazilian Thiago Silva, in the defense, and of the Dutch goaler of the Real Madrid, Klaas Huntelaar, are the most outstanding of the red blacks but does not seem to be enough to fight for the title this time.

The other team that seems in descend and that formerly animated the championships is the Roma, always conducted by Luciano Spaletti and with the base of a team that few seasons ago generated satisfaction among their fans. The expectation is centered as always and what will generate their captain and maximum star, Francesco Totti, and if the attacker Vucinic, and seems interesting the registration of the young Guberti, but there are doubts with the departure of Aquilani and Panucci.

The Roma resides is in negotiating process that could mean next week, the sale of the stock shares packets, from the family Sensi to the Russian magnate Mijael Projorov, now the greatest fortune of Russia with 9500 millions of Dollars and who counts with the support of the first Minister, Vladimir Putin, to purchase the Italian company in 330 millions of Euros.

In change, there appear strongly teams that formerly were in a position in mid of the list and could profit eventually with the participation of the greatest teams in European contests. Since the Udinese, with the base of Chilean Players (Alexis Sánchez, Fabián Orellana y Mauricio Isla), the Fiorentina, the Sampdoria, Lazio, with the registering of the Argentine forwarder Julio Cruz and the Brazilian Eliseu, and had just won over Inter the Supercopa italiana in Pekín (2-1), up to the Nápoli, with the arrival of Qiagliarella, Cigarini and Zuñiga. And the Genoa, that registered nine players among whom outstand the Argentinean attackers Rodrigo Palacio and Hernán Crespo.

Moreover the names, the fact that each of the teams seams to desire to count with a creative player (Totti, Diego, Ronaldinho, Sneijder, Alexis Sánchez, Cassano) is auspicious in the search to recover a place that the Italian football was losing in the last years.