IT IS TIME to forget everything we used to believe about ­Brazilian footballers. Gliding around a pitch, Samba ­soccer, tiny sky-blue shorts, lovers, philosophers, 40-a-day smokers. Gone.

An influential player of the Brazil sides in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, he had a short spell in Europe with Fiorentina. In many ways, Socrates was the last of a dying breed of artistic ...

NAPLES, Italy - Napoli earned a deserved 2-1 win over Fiorentina at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Sunday to move back on to the shoulders of Serie A leaders Inter Milan. Napoli moved on to ...

Raffaele Palladino insists that he is not fussed about his own future, rather the future of Fiorentina and their results on the pitch as he and his Viola side look to overturn a 3-2 deficit ...

Soccer star Moise Kean, who plays for Fiorentina and Italy, has been discharged from the hospital after collapsing on the pitch following a head injury on Sunday. The striker, 24, had been playing ...

The Fiorentina forward was taken to hospital after appearing to pass out following an earlier blow to his head during Fiorentina's defeat by Hellas Verona. Fiorentina later confirmed Kean had ...

Romelu Lukaku and Giacomo Raspadori put Napoli back on track to see off Fiorentina, despite an Albert Gudmundsson strike, to keep the Scudetto race wide open. The Partenopei needed a victory to ...