ROME: Just 12 months ago Italian football was being written off but when the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League is made today, three of the eight sides will be drawn from Serie A – not bad for a supposedly fading power in the game.
Last March, the failure of any Italian team to make the last eight of the Champions League for the second successive year led to much gloating across the continent and to a good deal of introspection in Italy.
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