Flags of Vatican City and San Marino Europe is notorious for having small roads, utility cars, and everything reduced to minimal space, therefore it shouldn’t come as a surprise that several nations in Europe are the size of a few blocks in New York City. Among these mini-countries that include […]
Francesco Totti. Ph. Roberto Vicario on wikimedia “Il Capitano” (The Captain) is the nickname that Francesco Totti goes by among the supporters of A.S. Roma, but others in the soccer world often refer to him, in a mostly friendly manner, as “Er Pupone” (The Big Baby). Whatever you want to […]
Carlo Ancelotti. Ph. Doha Stadium Plus Qatar on flickr (flic.kr/p/bjjWZD) Carlo Ancelotti is one of the most gallant figures in Italian soccer. Born in Parma, he became a professional soccer player and exploded into the limelight while playing for Rome. After two major injuries Ancelotti was able to recover his full […]
American TV has personalities like Oprah and Barbara Walters, women who have become household names while ruling the airwaves. One of the Italian equivalents would be Maria De Filippi –blonde, long-limbed and husky voiced, she is one of the indisputable queens of Italian TV. Perhaps not as refined and traditionally sexy as compatriots […]
Vittorio Pozzo (Photo from Wikipedia) Read part two of this article here The Italian national football team–“La Nazionale” or “gli Azzurri”– is the most important sports team in Italy and has been one of the most followed teams since the creation of modern sports. The head coach of the team […]
Cesare Prandelli (Photo from calciopro.com) Fulvio Bernardini became coach of the national team after Valcareggi blew it in 1974 World Cup. Bernardini was a man with strong skills and great achievements, however, he didn’t do much for the national team and in 1977 his coaching job was given to Enzo Bearzot. Bearzot […]
Minorities in Italy (Map from europeanunionmaps.com) In the past few decades, things dramatically changed in Italy in terms of immigration and illegal entries. This issue, which until the 1980s seemed to be only a problem for the United States, rapidly and like an oil spill, hit the Italian coastline with violence. It […]
Diego Armando Maradona (Photo from veronello.com) The decade of the 1980s began with two major shifts in Italian football: the opening up of the game to foreign players and a gambling scandal that rocked the nation. Serie A was embroiled in turmoil when many major players and teams were involved in […]
Check out the second part of the History of Italian Soccer. Scudetto Edoardo Bosio was a textile trader born in Turin in 1864. After receiving a diploma in accounting, Bosio went to work for a British company in the textile trade. While living in England the Italian was exposed […]
Italy is a nation that lives and breathes soccer (football), appropriately, it also holds the second spot for most World Cups won (the second spot is shared with Germany, as of 2017). Ever. The World Cup, of course, is the single, most important sporting event on the planet, held every four years […]