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Daily Record
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Sampdoria in relegation reprieve after bombshell Serie B twist hands former Scudetto winners a lifeline
Sampdoria were relegated to Italy's third tier for the first time in 79 years earlier this week - but that could be about to change Former Serie A powerhouses Sampdoria suffered the ignominy of becoming one of the few former Scudetto winners to drop to Italy's third tier when they were relegated from Serie B earlier this week. But in a a bombshell development that can be considered quite normal in Italian football, the Genoese club are now set to be handed the chance to retain their status in the second division. After a dismal campaign which saw them win just eight of their 38 league matches, I Blucerchiati were sent down to Serie C for the first time in 79 years - despite the return of club legends Alberico Evani and Attilo Lombardo in the coaching department to try to spark a late revival. Sampdoria famously won the Serie A title back in 1991 with a side that boasted world class talents including ex Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini, the late Gianluca Vialli and future Dundee player/manager Ivano Bonetti, reaching the final of the European Cup in the following season where they lost out to Barcelona. But the club has been on the decline in recent years and were relegated back to Serie B at the end of the 2022/23 season after 11 years in the top-flight. And while their misery was poised to continue, problems elsewhere in the league are set to give them a lifeline to avoid a second relegation in three seasons. Sampdoria finished the season in 18th place on 41 points - with the bottom three sides in the 20-team league automatically going down - just below Frosinone and Salernitana in 16th and 17th position respectively, with those two teams facing off in a two-legged relegation-play off to determine who stays in the division. But it has now been all but confirmed that 15th place Brescia - who finished the season on 43 points will be hit with a four point deduction for unpaid player wages that will see them drop below Sampdoria and be relegated to the third tier. In turn, that will mean that Frosinone will be guaranteed safety by moving up to 15th position, leaving Salertinana and Samp to battle it out to retain their Serie B status. The news will be welcomed by some Italian football fans in the UK, who grew up watching Sampdoria on Channel 4's weekly show Football Italia, which ran from 1992 to 2004. The popular programme - which was hosted by James Richardson - attracted more than three million viewers in its pomp. As well as showing the highlights from each game, also included interviews and famous skits from some of the biggest names in Serie A at the time, such as Paul Gascoigne, Roberto Baggio and Paul Ince.
The Age
15-05-2025
- The Age
Port guide: Genoa, Italy
This article is part of Traveller's ultimate guide to cruise ports. See all stories. This Italian city has long been overlooked but has been getting increasing attention for its history, culture and fine setting. Could it be Italy's next big destination? Who goes there It seems cruise passengers have already cottoned on to the attractions of Genoa, since it receives 1.7 million cruise tourists annually. The northern Italian port is favoured by larger ships; small luxury ships anchor off Portofino 50 kilometres down the coast. Celebrity, Costa, Cunard, P&O Cruises UK, Princess and Royal Caribbean are among lines that visit on Mediterranean cruises. MSC homeports ships here. Sail on in The city, named one of the best in travel for 2025 by Lonely Planet, provides an exciting arrival. In centuries past, those on their Grand Tour raved about Genoa's blue bay and hillsides on which lemon trees grew. Today, harbour and hills are packed with industrial infrastructure and buildings, but the setting is still theatrical, and you can almost feel the city's buzz from the sea. Berth rites Ships dock either at Ponte dei Mille or Ponte Andrea Doria quays, which are adjacent to each other in Genoa's harbour. The terminal is a splendid 1930s building that looks like a mini-palazzo. There are good transport connections by taxi, metro (Principe station) and local bus, but you can walk to the city centre in 20 minutes. Going ashore Porto Antico, the old harbour along from the cruise terminal, has one of Europe's largest aquariums, which is adjacent to the eye-catching Genoa Biosphere, nicknamed La Bolla or The Bubble, a huge spherical glasshouse containing plants, birds and insects. Then head into the old-town core for magnificent architecture including the Moorish-influenced San Lorenzo Cathedral. If you're going to pick one museum, make it Galata Museo del Mare, which relates the incredible history of this former maritime power and has a full-scale reproduction of a Genoese galley.
Sydney Morning Herald
15-05-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Port guide: Genoa, Italy
This article is part of Traveller's ultimate guide to cruise ports. See all stories. This Italian city has long been overlooked but has been getting increasing attention for its history, culture and fine setting. Could it be Italy's next big destination? Who goes there It seems cruise passengers have already cottoned on to the attractions of Genoa, since it receives 1.7 million cruise tourists annually. The northern Italian port is favoured by larger ships; small luxury ships anchor off Portofino 50 kilometres down the coast. Celebrity, Costa, Cunard, P&O Cruises UK, Princess and Royal Caribbean are among lines that visit on Mediterranean cruises. MSC homeports ships here. Sail on in The city, named one of the best in travel for 2025 by Lonely Planet, provides an exciting arrival. In centuries past, those on their Grand Tour raved about Genoa's blue bay and hillsides on which lemon trees grew. Today, harbour and hills are packed with industrial infrastructure and buildings, but the setting is still theatrical, and you can almost feel the city's buzz from the sea. Berth rites Ships dock either at Ponte dei Mille or Ponte Andrea Doria quays, which are adjacent to each other in Genoa's harbour. The terminal is a splendid 1930s building that looks like a mini-palazzo. There are good transport connections by taxi, metro (Principe station) and local bus, but you can walk to the city centre in 20 minutes. Going ashore Porto Antico, the old harbour along from the cruise terminal, has one of Europe's largest aquariums, which is adjacent to the eye-catching Genoa Biosphere, nicknamed La Bolla or The Bubble, a huge spherical glasshouse containing plants, birds and insects. Then head into the old-town core for magnificent architecture including the Moorish-influenced San Lorenzo Cathedral. If you're going to pick one museum, make it Galata Museo del Mare, which relates the incredible history of this former maritime power and has a full-scale reproduction of a Genoese galley.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🚨 Drama in Genoa: Sampdoria relegated to third tier for the first time
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. The heart of Genoa's blucerchiato stopped tonight with Sampdoria's relegation to Serie C in the unified Serie B matchday. The Genoese club, one of the most successful in Italian football during the 1990s, will play in the Third Division for the first time in its couldn't win away against Juve Stabia and, due to other results, is in Serie C along with Cittadella and Cosenza. Another historic club, Salernitana, earned another chance to fight for survival (as did Frosinone) in the playoff. In the playoff zone, Cesena outperformed Palermo and secured the seventh place. La #Sampdoria retrocede in #SerieC — Nicolò Schira (@NicoSchira) May 13, 2025 Promoted to Serie A: Sassuolo and Pisa. Promotion playoff: Spezia (3rd), Cremonese (4th), Juve Stabia (5th), Catanzaro (6th), Cesena (7th), and Palermo (8th). Relegation playoff: Frosinone and Salernitana. Relegation: Sampdoria, Cittadella, Cosenza. 📸 Simone Arveda - 2023 Getty Images
Epoch Times
02-05-2025
- Epoch Times
How the Age of European Imperialism Began in the Late 1400s
Commentary By the late 15th century, European marine technology had advanced to the point that long ocean-going voyages were possible. Ships stout enough to withstand the perils of the Atlantic had been designed, new arrangements of lateen and square sails meant harnessing the wind more effectively, and navigational skills and aids such as the compass and astrolabe had permitted sailing into waters far from familiar coastlines. This enabled nation states on the Atlantic coast to invest in exploration whose purpose was to find a sea-route to Asia and its trade riches. The country that achieved this might thus cut out Mediterranean middlemen like Venice and Genoa and avoid dealing with hostile Islamic powers. Portugal was first to take up this challenge, and undertook a series of expeditions down the dangerous and unexplored coast of Africa, compiling maps and charts of the winds, and establishing bases. In 1488, ships led by Bartolomeu Dias finally passed the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the southern tip of the continent. Within a decade, Vasco da Gama would go farther, sailing north to reach India, upsetting centuries-old trading patterns. The Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus had attempted to interest the Portuguese in a scheme to reach the Indies, not via Africa but by a westerly route. Scientific advisers in Lisbon, however, realized that Columbus had seriously erred in his estimation of the length of such a journey and sent him packing. He found a more sympathetic hearing from Isabella, the Queen of Castile, the leading Spanish power. Together, Isabella and Columbus negotiated a deal that would provide him with a small fleet, a cut of the profits from his voyage, and the grand title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea. In August 1492, Columbus set sail toward the west and eventually blundered into hitherto-unknown islands, convinced that he had reached the outskirts of Japan. This serendipitous miscalculation proved to be the discovery of the Americas, from which the Spanish would reap golden dividends. Related Stories 4/18/2025 4/4/2025 Portrait of Pope Alexander VI. Public Domain In order to prevent rival claims to new territories from disturbing the peace of nations, Pope Alexander VI, a Spaniard of the Borgia clan, issued the 1493 bull Inter caetera which praised the achievements of Columbus and bolstered Spanish pretensions. 'Among other works well pleasing to the Divine Majesty and cherished of our heart, this assuredly ranks highest, that in our times especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself,' the papal bull stated. 'We … assign to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, … all islands and mainlands found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole, namely the north, to the Antarctic pole, namely the south, … the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south from any of the islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde.' The Portuguese were unhappy with this rather vague division of the globe and saw that it not only precluded their hopes of eventually claiming rights in India but also violated earlier treaties that had given them all lands south of the Canary Islands. King John II warned the Spanish that he was prepared to go to war over this issue and that he was preparing to send an armada to seize whatever lands Columbus had found. The Spanish were willing to negotiate and ignore, or at least amend, Alexander VI's papal bull; the result was the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. This agreement followed the notion of a north-south line down the Atlantic Ocean but moved the demarcation to the west, giving Portugal territory to the east and Spain the lands to the west (and incidentally nipping off the bulge on the east coast of South America which the Portuguese would colonize as Brazil). More papal decrees and treaties would be necessary before an agreement in 1529 solved most of the Spanish-Portuguese bickering. With these agreements, the age of globalism and European imperialism had begun. Other European nations tended to ignore these rulings altogether—England, France, and the Netherlands would succeed in muscling in on the territories allocated to Spain and Portugal—and, of course, the native states of the Americas, Africa, and Asia were given no say in the matter. Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
