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About Stefano Ursolini

The son of a leading Florentine art dealer, Stefano initially worked in the Uffizi Gallery. He went into journalism and soon became a popular stringer writing on Tuscan wines, art and football. Stefano lives with his partner Umberto in the Santa Croce quarter of Florence. A dedicated supporter of AC Fiorentina his elegant articles on the Viola as well as the Serie A have earned him an appreciative global audience. More Posts

Italy out … but only just

Germany finally beat Italy in a tournament but it couldn’t have been closer. The azzurri were without Daniele de Rossi and Candreva in midfield already missing Claudio Marchisio  and Marino Verrati. Germany paid them the highest compliment with a matching 5-3-2 dropping Julima Draxler. The [...]

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Italy triumph

We were not that optimistic going into the Euros. We lacked our best midfielder Claudio Marchisio, aside from our Fiorentina’s youthful talent Bernardeschi the azzurri had no creativity in the midfield. We call such players registas the same word for a film producer. They usually wear the [...]

June 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I was in London recently for an Art fair and decided to take the short rail journey to Brighton to meet up with Alan and Ivan. We had an interesting conversation along the lines that supporting your team is about management of expectations. Ivan, for example, after a season in which Brighton spent [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day Two

Yesterday I joined the group as a lecturer alongside Martin Gayford. I had one eye on time in view of Tottenham v Fioretina. Signor Roberto as I call Bob Tickler told me to watch out for a silver  haired bouffant type who fancied himself as an Michelangelo expert. “Stef, he warned [...]

February 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina 1 Spurs 1

I was discussing the game earlier in the week with John Pargiter. Both teams are going for a Champions League position and in the case of Spurs the FA Cup too, so I was unsure how seriously they would treat this Europa League competition. I liked the description of it by one Fiorentina blogger as [...]

February 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Fiorentina beat Inter 2-1 and are fourth. It was an important victory to keep alive our aspirations to achieve a Champions League position. It reflects the decline of Italian football and that we only now have 3 Champions League places in serie a. Inter scored first, then Borja Valero equalised [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Like the Premier League the top of the sere a is tight with Napoli leading, Juve second, Fiorentina third and Inter fourth. After a couple of defeats to Lazio and Milan, Fiorentina put their season on track with a solid win over Torino last Sunday morning ( 2-0). We have strengthened the squad with [...]

January 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Juventus 3 Fiorentina 1

The one fixture that Fioretnina want to win is this one. It goes back to 1980 when the scudetto went to the last game. Juve were at Catanzaro, Fiorentina at Cagliari. Juve were awarded a penalty converted by Liam  Brady and Fiorentina refused one. Fast forward to the sale of Roberto Baggio from us [...]

December 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Homage to Batistuta

A friend of mine in England sent me this link, which I am happy to share with you, on Fiorentina’s greatest player, Gabriel Batistuta – known as Batigiol. See here  for Rob Smyth’s piece on the website of  The Guardian – GABRIEL BATISTUTA To qualify as the greatest you [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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