Sport in Italy
After fifteen days of high and lows, tears and joys, the London 2012 Summer Olympics have finally come to a close last Sunday. What an emotional fortnight has been for sport fans all over the world! Truth is that, as usual and as expected, Team USA and China dominated the […]
Italian tifosi Never ask about football to an Italian, or he will go on boasting about his favourite football team for hours.La tifoseria Italiana , Italian football supporters, are numerous and at times, a bit too fanatic, indeed. Tifosi sometimes forget what rationality is and their excesses have lead […]
Enrico Fabris – Italy’s Great Golden Hope If you had never heard of Enrico Fabris before the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, you probably have now. In his native Italy, the 24 year old speed skater has been hailed as the “Man of the Games” by the press. His two […]
Carolina Kostner – Italy’s Ice Princess Carolina Kostner was born in Bolzano, Italy on February 8, 1987. Her mother, Patrizia, was a nationally-ranked figure skater during the 70s and her father, Erwin, played hockey in the 1984 Olympics and was captain of the Italian national team. Carolina is the cousin […]
Not Just Soccer Fans Italians don’t live exclusively for soccer. It’s more of a 360 degrees love for sports in general and even though the soccer ball remains the highest in the hit parade of our national desires, there is a good number of sports t hat still represent a […]
Will Italian Clubs Compete In The Future? Milan Juve – a classical match of Serie A The vast majority of Italian football fans (and their hysterical passion) is concentrated on the clubs playing in Serie A, the Italian major football league, which is why match days, Saturday and Sunday, are […]
Not Just Soccer Fans Italians don’t live exclusively for soccer. It’s more of a 360 degrees love for sports in general and even though soccer’s victories remain the highest in the hit parade of our national desires, there is a good number of sports that still represent a traditional importance […]
Italian Soccer: The Beginning Edoardo Bosio and Soccer in Turin Edoardo Bosio was born in Turin in 1864. Popular in the Societa’ Canottieri Armida, Eduardo had a diploma in accounting and because of his occupation as a merchant for a British textile industry he was given the opportunity to live […]
SOCCER: IN ITALY IT’S MORE THAN JUST PASSION WHEN A GAME BECOMES HISTORY Fabio Cannavaro was there – we were all there – lifting the ‘beautiful cup’ in the air as a sign of victory… The scugnizzo napoletano’s watery eyes completed a 360 around the world and over the hearts […]
Sports in Italy World Cup moments 2006 Soccer: I picked this 4 video out of literally 100s to show the most memorable event of the Germany 2006 world cup. Enjoy them, ciao. Italy world cup history 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006: A video for the 2006 Team. […]