Sergey Shevchenko - about the most interesting topics of the upcoming season.

The Italian Championship begins today with the matches of Chievo - Juventus and Lazio - Napoli. Interest in Serie A is growing, the benefit of Italian club football is slowly but surely recovering from the crisis decade. The Apennines again go the stars, and the average level of the championship is much higher than 5-6 years ago. The new season promises to give a lot of fascinating stories. We picked up seven major intrigues affecting all parts of the table - from the first line to the fighters for survival.

Ronaldo in Juventus Now thanks to Cristiano the world will see the matches of Empoli - Juventus and Juventus - Frosinone. Perhaps the world will even like it (Empoli, without jokes, plays aesthetically attractive combination football, and midfielder Mihai Zayts will surprise not only with the name-surname). Ronaldo is the guarantor of the popularity of Serie A. The media catch every step: a funny photo where he measures biceps with Dibala, an amusing moment in training, when Rugani removed a small gate in front of him, the first sparring with Juventus doubles in the small Piedmont village of Villars-Peroza. It's scary to think about what will begin when the CR7 starts playing official matches and scores the first goal in Juve's T-shirt. Each of his outing on the field will become an intrigue, because from the Portuguese will wait for wonders like the very goal of "bisicleta" ("rovesciata", if we are in Italy) at the Juventus Stadium. How many will Cristiano score? Will he be the top scorer of Serie A? Defenders of which Italian team will still be able to contain it? Or Ronaldo does not get accustomed at all - maybe it's like that? Or start soloing in proud solitude, driving into his shadow the rest of the "bianconeri" led by Dibala? Anyway, we are waiting for a great show.

Return of Ancelotti One of the most titled mentors of the world returned to Serie A. Winning the championships in Italy, Spain, England and Germany, three Champions Cups - it's all him, Carlo Ancelotti. Now he headed Napoli, with whom he must challenge Juventus (where he also worked in 1999-2001). It's amazing how this alliance was formed at all. A risky bet from Neapolitan president De Laurentis - by inviting Ancelotti, he did not provide the team with eminent newcomers. "I'm your Cavani" - somehow in June, De Laurentiis responded to the fans, who demanded an increase in the line of attack. Moreover, after Maurizio Sarri in Chelsea left Zhorzhinho, playing the midfielder team. Can Ancelotti, accustomed to working in top clubs, give a result in a situation where he himself is Napoli's main transfer? Are his methods alive, or was the dismissal from Bavaria the beginning of the end of a brilliant coaching career? How will Napoli change, will the legacy of the phenomenal team of Maurizio Sarri survive? While the arrival of Ancelotti looks like a crazy experiment from the series "boiler in the refrigerator," but, perhaps, Papa Carlo has returned to show the children what the real golden age of Calco looks like?.

Transfers Monchi We already wrote about the work of the Spanish sports director. Transfers, which turns Roma, breathe life into the already not "dead" Kalchomercato. Selling leaders, focused search for a replacement for them, as well as signing young talents - part of the strategy of the Roman club, but how effective will Monci's activity in the future next season? Will not the gates freeze without Alisson? Will the midfield fail without Nainggolan? Will play Kristante and Kluivert Jr. - here's another mini-intrigue, because many fans grew up on the game of Patrick Kluivert. And Javier Pastore returned, who eight or nine years ago shone in Palermo. Maybe, in the end, someone will shoot, quite unobvious, like the Croatian centroclamp players Ante Chorich, who at his 21st year played more than a hundred matches for Dynamo Zagreb. So far, the Monchi transfers have been mixed with even Roma fans, but it's all the more interesting, is not it?.

Strengthening the Milanese grants Hope, cherished by fans of Serie A for many years already. The Italian league will revive when the Milanese grandees return to their previous level - a thought that has become banal. For a long time it did not work out. Unsuccessful coaching assignments, failed transfers, or - in the case of Milan - owners with a troubled biography. Now, however, the situation is changing for the better. Inter for the first time in six years, got into the Champions League, which made it possible to conduct a rich transfer campaign and look to the future with optimism. Milan, apparently, also recovers, the benefit of the "Rossoneri" is finally owned by serious people who even convinced Paolo Maldini nine years later to return to the club. The passage of Higuain definitely should strengthen the team, for a long time in Milan there were no top-scorers. Will the traditional leaders of the Italian championship return to their seats?.

"Kindergartens" Immediately several clubs from the middle and upper half of the table make an accented stake on youth. This is primarily about Atalanta, Sassuolo and Fiorentina. The average age of the application "violets" is 24 years old, this is the youngest league team. They included, for example, the 19-year-old Alban Lafont ("French Donnarumma"), goalkeeper of Toulouse, who made his debut in League 1, being a 16-year-old student. Sassuolo - a hotbed of talented young people, from the coming from Milan clubs Odgard and Locatelli to Brignola and Skamakki, who played this summer in the Italian national team U-19, reached the final of the Euro. Atalanta and her school do not need presentations at all. You can also highlight Genoa with its promising forwards: Kuame, Favilli and Pyatec - the Pole has already drawn a penalty in the match of the Cup of Italy. Who said that Serie A - the championship of veterans?.

The duel of the brothers Inzaghi And brother will go to his brother - literally. Coaching career Filippo Inzaghi evolved uneasy, but a successful work in Venice, he compensated for the failure in Milan (where he was at the wrong time in the wrong place) and deserved an invitation to Bologna. Now he will inevitably cross with Lazio, a team much more successful Simone Inzaghi. The fraternal duel will add peppercorns to these two matches, and in fact more plots are expected "Filippo vs. Milan" and "Filippo vs. Ancelotti".

New Parma She's with us again. The degenerated, cleaned by the filters of the three lower divisions and well-strengthened before the start of the championship - have not forgotten another guy like Gervinho? For fans of Parma any match of Serie A grows to the rank of an almost miraculous event. The example of Napoli with Fiorentina proves that even Parmesan, despite bankruptcy, can well wait for a decent future. Perhaps, a year or two later we will again get used to the line "Parma" in the Serie A table, it will seem to us that it has always been so, but no - the club played even in amateurs. Even Parma has a luxurious form, especially the third set - "black as ash, from which we rebelled".

Author: Sergey Shevchenko.