Italians are very passionate about their soccer or "calcio", as it is part of their tradition and culture and has been for many years. And finally, after much anticipation, the soccer season is about to get underway.

Here is the schedule the Serie A professional Italian soccer league for the 2011-2012 season.  Note, because of the player strike, the games for the first week will be rescheduled at a later point.  Yes, just as we saw in the United States NFL, billionaires can have disputes with millionaires.

The schedule is in Excel so you can sort and filter by date, team, etc.

It is on my Skydrive account - here is the link for the Serie A 2011-2012 soccer schedule.