2007 Italian Serie A Season Begins This Weekend

Inter Milan rules Italy. Until somebody dethrones them this season of course.

Yep, the brand new 2007 Italian Serie A season begins this weekend and although the league is no longer the leaders in terms of high priced summer transfers, the Italian Serie A season still promises to be a rather exciting extravaganza (if you can really call soccer that...) to watch.

The league these days seem keen on exporting some of it's best players to different parts of the globe. Reggina sent Rolando Bianchi to Manchester City for $17 million while Luca Toni is getting ready to play for Bayern Munich after Fiorentina dealt him for $15 million.

Wait, there's more, Cristiano Lucarelli moved further east and signed for Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukraine. Livorno picked up a little over $12 million in that deal while Inter Milan sold World Cup winning left back Fabio Grosso to Lyon in France for $10 million.

Inter Milan will come in as the defending Italian champions after scoring 97 championship points the last time we had Italian football. They simply dominated the Italian Serie A then after they had a whopping 22 points lead over the rest of the pack.

Returning to the Italian Serie A is Juventus, the reigning Italian Serie B champions. It definitely looks like these guys have finally moved on from the ''Calciopoli scandal'' that relegated them to Serie B with a nine-point penalty.

Zdenek Grygera arrives on a Bosman transfer from Ajax and could prove to be a very astute acquisition. The same goes for Jorge Andrade (Deportivo la Coruña) who was considered one of the best center backs in the world before suffering a severe knee injury three months before the last World Cup.

Yep, I'm rooting for these guys to dethrone the current Italian giants. Besides, to me, their fans are the Raider nation of Italian football. Because they're weird.

Who will win the 2007 Italian Serie A season? AcesAce sportsbook has the odds.

Inter Milan EVEN +120

Juventus EVEN +450

AC Milan EVEN +180

AS Roma EVEN +850

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