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Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Professional Football League), commonly known as La Liga and ... known as Primera División, is the professional football league in Spain. It is considered to be one of the best leagues in the world along with the English Premier League and the Italian Serie A. La Liga became the first league to do the European "double" since 1997. It is currently first in the UEFA Ranking of European leagues based on their performances in European competitions over a five-year period, ahead of Serie A in second and the Premier League in third. In professional football (soccer) leagues La Liga was third-highest, behind the Bundesliga in first and the Premier League in second.
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The Italian football season runs from September through to June. It culminates with the Coppa Italia final, which is equivalent to thr British FA Cup. Italy’s football obsession... reaches fever pitch when the World Cup takes place every four years. The football teams listed below belong to the Serie A (for year 2005-2006), which is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. It started in 1929, with the structure it has today. If one would like to make a Top5 of Italian football teams according to how many times they have been champions then it would be like:
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The Premier League is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the English Football League System. It is one of the world’s most watched sporting leagues, and the most lucrative football league. Based on the performance of the member clubs in European competitions over a five-year period, with the 2006/07 season results in consideration, the Premier League is unofficially ranked second behind Spain’s La Liga, but ahead of Italy’s Serie A in the UEFA Ranking of European Leagues .
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The publication in Italian newspapers last week of taped phone calls involving the Juventus director general, Luciano Moggi, has shaken Italian football to its foundations. The conversations appeared to lift the lid on a world of favours and behind-the-scenes deals between Moggi, Pierluigi Pairetto, head of the Italian referees' association and a member of Uefa's referees' commission, and Innocenzo Mazzini, the vice-president of the Italian Football Federation.
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Winning Serie A (officially known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the Italian football league system. It is widely regarded as one of the elite leagues of the footballing world. Historically, Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists. In total Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record of twenty-five different occasions, winning the title eleven times. And then to conquer the world!!!
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Gianluca Vialli is one of the most famous Italian footballers in the post-war era. He won league titles with Sampdoria and Juventus and captained Juventus to Champions’ League victory in 1996. At international level he won 59 caps for Italy, scoring 16 goals and leading them to the semi-finals of both the 1988 European Championship and the 1990 World Cup. As a manager, in two and a half seasons at Chelsea he won more trophies than any other manager in the history of the club, including the FA Cup, Cupwinners’ Cup and League Cup. He currently divides his time between London and Italy where he is the top analyst for Sky Italia’s Serie A and Champions’ League coverage.Gabriele Marcotti is the UK correspondent for Corriere dello Sport, and World Football columnist for The Times. He has ... written for the Financial Times, Sunday Herald, Daily Mail and La Stampa.
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