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According to the Corriere di Bologna, the felsinei will make a move on Montreal Impact youngster Jérémy Gagnon-Laparé. The 19 year old has been followed closely by Canada's senior team coach Benito Floro. The axis Montreal-Bologna begins to take shape, leveraging Joey Saputo's ownership of both clubs.

Scarborough's Jonathan De Guzmán is set to don the azzurro of SSC Napoli shirt, according to Sky Italy 's Gianluca Di Marzio. The Canadian-born midfielder is expected to be in the parthenopean capital tomorrow where he will take the ritual medical examination before being presented officially by Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentiis. Napoli paid a reported €8M to Spanish club Villarreal to avail themselves of the Canadian who plays for the Netherlands. The 26-year-old midfielder was brought in by the club to serve mainly as a replacement for Valon Behrami, who left for German side Hamburg in late July for €4.5 million. De Guzmán will be reunited with former teammate Michu, with whom he played at Swansea City. In 53 matches that he played for the yellow submarines, De Guzmàn scored 5 goals and provided 6 assists.

Mississauga, Ontario native Robert Stillo has been called up to the Canadian national team in occasion of the friendlies against Bulgaria and Moldova. Robert gained promotion into Serie B  and won the Lega Pro Supercup  with AC Perugia this season. Canada will play Bulgaria on May 23, and Moldova on May 27, Canada Soccer reports. Both friendlies will take place in Austria.  Here is the complete list of call ups:  GK- Milan Borjan | unattached / sans club GK- Roberto Stillo | ITA / A.C. Perugia GK- Ricky Gomes | POR / Uniao Mentemor D- Nik Ledgerwood | GER / MSV Duisburg D- Jeremy Gagnon-Laparé | CAN / Impact de Montréal D- Andre Hainault | GER / FC Aalen D- Adam Straith | GER / Wehen Wiesbaden D- Daniel Stanese | GER / FC Augusburg II D- Tyler Pasher | FIN / Kemi Kings D- Manjrekar James | HUN / PMFC Matias D- David Edgar | ENG / Burnley FC D- Luca Gasparotto | SCO / Glasgow Rangers M- Julian de Guzman | GRE / Skoda Xanthi M- Pedro Pacheco | ...

According to Canadian Newswire , BeIN Sport has partnered with Ethnic Channels Group to launch into the Canadian television market. The move comes after two seasons without English-language Serie A. With BeIN Sport Italian soccer lovers will be able to once again access exclusive English-language coverage of Serie A and Coppa Italia ; as well as other competitions that the channel covers such as Spain's La Liga and Copa del Rey, Ligue 1, CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifying, Copa America, and England's Football League. More information on this exciting initiative will be released soon with respect to specific channel(s) that will carry BeIN Sport's broadcasts. CatenaccioNA will keep you up-to-date on developments.

Buonasera quasi a tutti! (Good evening to almost everybody!) is the loud and proud salute of Magica Roma Club Toronto president Vito Caressa, as he enters 90o Minuto Sports Bar .  He was extending his warm greetings to fellow AS Roma fans, and probably not to patrons of rivaling teams. These, shortly after his boisterous entrance proceed to greet him with questions about his recent return from Italy (where he watched Roma home games against Napoli and Chievo) and give him friendly ribbings about officiating errors that his beloved AS Roma benefited from. Caressa responds.  The easy pray is an AC Milan fan, whose team is reeling from poor form. The AC Milan fan reminds Caressa about the rossoneri 's rich trophy case: "we are 7 times European Champions and have 18 scudetti". "Yes, but all of that is over", replies Caressa, reminding the milanista of Pro Vercelli, "they too won 7 scudetti, but are now in oblivion. You'll end up the same".  F...