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Kwadwo Asamoah

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Kwadwo "Kojo" Asamoah,; born 9 December 1988 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who last played as a left midfielder, left wing-back or as an offensive central midfielder for Italian club Juventus. He began his professional career with Italian club Udinese in 2008; his consistent performances earned him a transfer to Juventus in 2012, where, with his energy, versatility, and technical skills, he played a key role in helping the club to six consecutive Serie A titles between 2013 and 2018, among other titles. At international level, he has represented Ghana in four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, and two FIFA World Cups. Asamoah was awarded CAF Most Promising African Player in 2010 and named Ghana Player of the Year twice consecutively for 2012 and 2013. In 2013, Asamoah was ranked as the 27th best footballer in the world by Bloomberg. [1]

86 relations: AC Bellinzona, Accra, ACF Fiorentina, Africa Cup of Nations, Antonio Conte, Ashanti Region, Association football, Baba Yara Stadium, Bamako, BBC Sport, Bloomberg L.P., CAF Team of the Year, Claude Le Roy, Co-ownership (football), Coppa Italia, Cross (football), Daily Mail, Defender (association football), Earth, Empoli F.C., FIFA, FIFA World Cup, Genoa C.F.C., Ghana, Ghana Football Association, Ghana national football team, Ghana Player of the Year, Juventus F.C., Kaaseman F.C., Kumasi, Lega Nazionale Professionisti, Liberty Professionals F.C., Mali, Mauricio Isla, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Victory FC, Midfielder, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Parma Calcio 1913, Port Elizabeth, S.P.A.L. 2013, S.S. Lazio, S.S.C. Napoli, Serie A, Serie A Team of the Year, Sly Tetteh, South Africa, Stade du 26 Mars, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Supercoppa Italiana, ..., Torino F.C., U.S. Città di Palermo, Udinese Calcio, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, 2008–09 Serie A, 2009–10 Serie A, 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Third Round, 2010–11 Serie A, 2011–12 Serie A, 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, 2012 Supercoppa Italiana, 2012–13 Serie A, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Group B, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations knockout stage, 2013 Supercoppa Italiana, 2013–14 Serie A, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round, 2014–15 Coppa Italia, 2014–15 Serie A, 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, 2015 Coppa Italia Final, 2015 Supercoppa Italiana, 2015–16 Coppa Italia, 2015–16 Serie A, 2016 International Champions Cup, 2016–17 Coppa Italia, 2016–17 Serie A, 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, 2017–18 Coppa Italia, 2017–18 Serie A. Expand index (36 more) »

AC Bellinzona

AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona.

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Accra

Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, covering an area of with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million.

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ACF Fiorentina

ACF Fiorentina S.p.A., commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina, is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany.

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Africa Cup of Nations

The Total Africa Cup of Nations, officially CAN (Coupe d'Afrique des Nations), also referred to as African Cup of Nations, or AFCON, is the main international association football competition in Africa.

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Antonio Conte

Antonio Conte (born 31 July 1969) is an Italian professional football manager and former player.

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Ashanti Region

The Ashanti Region is located in south Ghana and is third largest of 10 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 per cent of the total land area of Ghana.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Baba Yara Stadium

Baba Yara Sports Stadium (also Kumasi Sports Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kumasi, Ashanti.

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Bamako

Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a population of 1.8 million (2009 census, provisional).

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is a department of the BBC North division providing national sports coverage for BBC Television, radio and online.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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CAF Team of the Year

The CAF Team of the Year is an annual football award given by the Confederation of African Football during the CAF Awards.

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Claude Le Roy

Claude Marie François Le Roy (born 6 February 1948) is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Senegal and Ghana national teams.

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Co-ownership (football)

Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club.

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Coppa Italia

The Coppa Italia (Italian for Italy Cup; officially known as TIM Cup because of its sponsorship) is an Italian football annual cup competition.

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Cross (football)

In association football, a cross is a medium- to-long-range pass from a wide area of the field towards the centre of the field near the opponent's goal.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Defender (association football)

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Empoli F.C.

Empoli Football Club is an Italian professional football club based in Empoli, in the Metropolitan City of Florence.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is an association which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer.

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FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

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Genoa C.F.C.

Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa, is a professional Italian football and cricket club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Ghana Football Association

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) was the governing body of association football in Ghana from 1957 to 2018, based in Kumasi.

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Ghana national football team

The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in international association football and has done so since the 1950s.

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Ghana Player of the Year

Ghana Player of the Year (or Ghanaian Footballer of the Year) is an annual award from Football Association of Ghana in recognition of excellence to the best Ghanaian professional association footballer of the year.

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Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (from iuventūs, "youth"), colloquially known as Juve, is a professional Italian football club in Turin, Piedmont.

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Kaaseman F.C.

Kaaseman F.C. is a Ghanaian football club based in Sefwi-Kaase, Ghana.

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Kumasi

Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie and usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana.

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Lega Nazionale Professionisti

The Lega Nazionale Professionisti (Italian for National League of Professionals), commonly known as Lega Calcio (Football League), was the governing body that ran the two highest football divisions in Italy, namely Serie A and Serie B, from 1946 to 2010.

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Liberty Professionals F.C.

Liberty Professionals Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Dansoman, Accra.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Mauricio Isla

Mauricio Aníbal Isla Isla (born 12 June 1988) is a Chilean footballer who plays for Turkish Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Chile national team.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melbourne Victory FC

Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position.

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Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium

The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is a 46,000-seater stadium in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Parma Calcio 1913

Parma Calcio 1913 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Parma, is an Italian football club based in the city of Parma that currently competes in Serie A. Founded as Parma Football Club in December 1913, the club plays its home matches in the 22,352-seat Stadio Ennio Tardini, often referred to as simply Il Tardini, from 1923.

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Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth or The Bay (iBhayi; Die Baai) is one of the largest cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town.

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S.P.A.L. 2013

S.P.A.L. 2013, commonly referred to as SPAL, an acronym for Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor, is a professional Italian football club, based in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna.

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S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity.

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S.S.C. Napoli

Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples, Campania.

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Serie A

Serie A, also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Coppa Campioni d'Italia.

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Serie A Team of the Year

The Serie A Team of the Year AIC (in Italian: Squadra dell’anno AIC) is an annual award given to a set of 11 footballers in the top tier of Italian football, the Serie A, who are seen to be the best eleven players of the calendar season.

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Sly Tetteh

Alhaji Ibrahim Sly Tetteh (died 3 September 2011) was a Ghanaian former footballer who was the President of Liberty Professionals.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Stade du 26 Mars

Stade du 26 Mars is located in the southern neighborhoods of Bamako, Mali.

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Stephan Lichtsteiner

Stephan Lichtsteiner (born 16 January 1984) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays for English club Arsenal and the Switzerland national team.

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Supercoppa Italiana

The Supercoppa Italiana (Italian for Italian Super Cup) is an annual football competition usually held the week before the season begins in Italy.

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Torino F.C.

Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that plays in Serie A. Founded as Foot-Ball Club Torino in 1906, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league titles, including five consecutive league titles at the time of the Grande Torino, widely recognised as one of the strongest teams of the 1940s.

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U.S. Città di Palermo

Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo, commonly referred to as Palermo, is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily, playing in Serie B. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Palermitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its current form in 1987, and is the top-ranked football club from the island of Sicily.

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Udinese Calcio

Udinese Calcio (known simply as Udinese) is an Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and currently plays in the Serie A. Founded in 1896, Udinese is the second oldest club in Italy, after Genoa.

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs.

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UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs.

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2008 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated to the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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2008–09 Serie A

The 2008–09 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the seventy-seventh season since its establishment.

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2009–10 Serie A

The 2009–10 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the seventy-eighth season since its establishment.

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2010 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football championship of Africa (CAF).

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2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams.

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2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Third Round

This page provides the summaries of the CAF Third Round matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.

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2010–11 Serie A

The 2010–11 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season since its establishment, the first under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 28 August 2010 and ended on 22 May 2011.

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2011–12 Serie A

The 2011–12 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the eightieth season since its establishment, and the second under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 3 September 2011 and ended on 13 May 2012.

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2012 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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2012 Supercoppa Italiana

The 2012 TIM Supercoppa Italiana Final was the 25th edition of the Supercoppa, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia competitions.

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2012–13 Serie A

The 2012–13 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 81st season since its establishment and the 3rd since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 25 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013.

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2013 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations South Africa 2013 for sponsorship reasons, held from 19 January to 10 February 2013, was the 29th Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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2013 Africa Cup of Nations Group B

Group B of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations ran from 20 January until 28 January.

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2013 Africa Cup of Nations knockout stage

The knockout stage of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations ran from 2 February, and ended with the final on 10 February.

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2013 Supercoppa Italiana

The 2013 TIM Supercoppa Italiana Final was the 26th edition of the Supercoppa, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia competitions.

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2013–14 Serie A

The 2013–14 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 112th season of top-tier Italian football, the 82nd in a round-robin tournament, and the 4th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. The season began on 24 August 2013 and concluded on 18 May 2014.

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2014 FIFA World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA.

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2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round

This page provides the summaries of the CAF Second Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

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2014–15 Coppa Italia

The 2014–15 Coppa Italia, also known as TIM Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 68th edition of the national cup in Italian football.

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2014–15 Serie A

The 2014–15 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 113th season of top-tier Italian football, the 83rd in a round-robin tournament, and the fifth since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 30 August 2014.

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2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League was the 60th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 23rd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

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2015 Coppa Italia Final

The 2015 Coppa Italia Final decided the winner of the 2014–15 Coppa Italia, the 68th season of Italy's main football cup.

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2015 Supercoppa Italiana

The 2015 Supercoppa Italiana was the 28th edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, Italian football supercup.

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2015–16 Coppa Italia

The 2015–16 Coppa Italia, also known as TIM Cup for sponsorship reasons was the 69th edition of the national cup in Italian football.

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2015–16 Serie A

The 2015–16 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 114th season of top-tier Italian football, the 84th in a round-robin tournament, and the 6th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. Juventus were the defending champions.

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2016 International Champions Cup

The 2016 International Champions Cup (or ICC) was a series of friendly association football tournaments that began on 22 July and ended on 13 August 2016.

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2016–17 Coppa Italia

The 2016–17 Coppa Italia, also known as TIM Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 70th edition of the national cup in Italian football.

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2016–17 Serie A

The 2016–17 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 115th season of top-tier Italian football, the 85th in a round-robin tournament, and the 7th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. Juventus were the defending champions.

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2016–17 UEFA Champions League

The 2016–17 UEFA Champions League was the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

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2017–18 Coppa Italia

The 2017–18 Coppa Italia, also known as TIM Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 71st edition of the national cup in Italian football.

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2017–18 Serie A

The 2017–18 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 116th season of top-tier Italian football, the 86th in a round-robin tournament and the 8th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. Juventus were the six-time defending champions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwadwo_Asamoah

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