Gianfranco Zola: Last News

Premier League season, the race for the elusive final Champions League spot went right down to the wire.Chelsea and Liverpool went head-to-head at Stamford Bridge in what was dubbed 'the £20million match'.It was a winner takes all affair which would have seen one side qualify for the Champions League and the other settle for a place in the UEFA Cup.But goals from Marcel Desailly and Jesper Gronkjaer cancelled out Semi Hypia’s opener for Liverpool to send the West Londoners into the Champions League.A couple of months later, Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea for around £140m, and Daily Star Sport considers the Blues’ first team which sealed their place in the Champions League. Carlo Cudicini was still Chelsea’s undisputed No.1 goalkeeper at the time, while a back four of Mario Melchiot, William Gallas, Marcel Desailly, and Celestine Babayaro held down the fort.

Erling Haaland's incredible debut season for Manchester City has seen the striker earn the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year award.

West Ham have signed more dud strikers than most people have had hot dinners - but German flop Savio Nsereko might just be the pick of the whole rotten bunch. Signed as a replacement for Craig Bellamy following his move to Manchester City in January 2009, Savio joined the Hammers to great fanfare in a £7million deal from Brescia. Not much was known about the Ugandan-born German forward, who had bagged a less than impressive three goals in 23 appearances for Brescia that season before his switch to Upton Park.

Southampton midfielder James Ward-Prowse has revealed his goal of breaking David Beckham's record of goals scored from direct free kicks, as well as one day meeting the former Manchester United number seven.

James Ward-Prowse equalled Cristiano Ronaldo's Premier League free-kick tally on Wednesday night.

West Ham United's tie against Chelsea on Saturday.The Italian appeared alongside Joe Cole and Rio Ferdinand as a guest pundit at the Olympic Stadium and turned the air blue just minutes into the broadcast.After watching a montage of some of Zola's greatest ever goals, Ferdinand said: "None of that was accidental."It's only listening to people like Joe and Frank [Lampard] who went to Chelsea and played alongside him [Zola]…"They used to speak about your work ethic and your practice. This wasn't an accident was it?"Zola replied: "No no, absolutely not!"It didn't come naturally.

Euro 2020 semi-final against Spain on Tuesday night - sparking wild celebrations from ex-Azzurri star Gianfranco Zola.Roberto Mancini's men edged a dramatic penalty shootout against La Roja at Wembley following a 1-1 draw over 120 minutes of football.Federico Chiesa first fired Italy in front with a sensational curling effort on the hour mark, before Alvaro Morata came off the bench to draw Spain level with 10 minutes remaining.However, in the end Morata went from hero to zero, with his miss in the shootout allowing Jorginho to step up and sweep Italy into Sunday's final.And the Chelsea midfielder's winning spot-kick certainly went down well with Blues legend Zola, whose jubilant celebrations while on punditry duty for beIN SPORTS were

Chelsea fan fortunate enough to see him in the flesh and they would tell you Gianfranco Zola is up there with the best to ever play at Stamford Bridge.Despite his small stature, the Italian’s sensational close control, passing ability, dribbling and finishing made him such a fan favourite, he was even unofficially voted the club’s greatest ever player in a 2003 poll.He may have left just before the Roman Abramovich boom period for the club but still played a major role in his eight years at the club, helping them lift a number of trophies both at home and abroad.The Sardinian-born forward began his career in the Italian lower leagues before his obvious talent was spotted by Napoli who snapped him up in 1989 to dovetail with the one and only

Chelsea next season. Frank Lampard managed to oversee a fourth-placed Premier League finish on Sunday having put faith in young players such as Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori.

Ask five different people about Faustino Asprilla and you’ll likely get five different and equally outrageous stories.

The Premier League has been graced by several of the world’s finest players since its inception in 1992.

Gianfranco Zola has claimed Callum Hudson-Odoi testing positive for the coronavirus shows “nobody is immune”.

Gianfraco Zola has named the two players who struggled most during Maurizio Sarri's tenure as Chelsea boss.