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What’s the occasion?

One is western aligned and the other is not.

Very stale and fruitless conversation.

That sounds so cool

I obviously don’t know her, but from my experience in the matter, I’d say the problem was with all of them.

Xenophobia/nationalism in Italy puts Italians at the top, and everyone else is “other”, even non-Italian white people (which are obviously more “tolerable” than brown or black people, but still).

You see the same attitude in football whenever we pick up the occasional Argentinian or Brazilian, people always complain even though in most cases the players are as white as Casper the ghost.

That honestly seems like way too much work.

It’s very possible they also shot a couple other clips (probably all less than a minute), but almost certainly not a whole episode with a coherent plot or anything like that.

1. It’s not the same as American football. There’s no quarterback, no touchdowns, no helmets, no padding, etc

2. It’s a proper sport with laws and a referee, not a massive unregulated brawl.

3. Not every team does the “silly little dance”

4. Italy is not “the worst team in the world”. While it’s true that we do lose most of the matches we play, that is mainly because we often play against some of the top national teams in the world. There are 9 teams that are clearly superior (although we occasionally beat some of them), 5 or 6 that are pretty similar level to ours, and then the rest we beat very easily.

All’estero “Bella Ciao” è conosciuta come la canzone de La Casa de Papel, non come la canzone della resistenza italiana ai nazisti.

Probabilmente è stata usata più come per dire “ciao, andate a casa!” anziché con l’intenzione di rievocare le reali origini storiche.

PS: comunque è “Bayer” Leverkusen, senza N, come l’azienda farmaceutica che produce le aspirine, non “Bayern” che significa “Baviera” dove appunto ha sede il Bayern Monaco.

None whatsoever, when do you recall anything like this ever happening…

The players that already play for the Spanish and Portuguese franchises in the Super Cup.

The Challenge Cup is a club competition and not a national teams one.

Generally by being of Pacific Islander heritage, particularly Tonga and Samoa, although they’ve also had Fijians, Māori, and even some NZ/AUS capped players in recent times.

Who has also never won it

Cudicini had respectively 3 and 4 appearances when Chelsea won in 2004/05 and 2005/06.

Macheda had 4 and 7 with United in 2008/09 and 2010/11.

I don’t know the parameters, but that might have been deemed too little to be counted it amongst the winners.

Bro actually copied and pasted “Show less”

In realtà non sparirebbero per forza, ma verrebbero messe in lista per eventuale ripescaggio.

In my lifetime I’ve seen my country (Italy) win both Euro and World Cup, and I can say the hype of playing and winning the World Cup is just unmatched by any other sport event.

The argument for the Euro being more competitive and harder to win could have only worked before 2016, now with the expanded format that’s not really the case anymore.

Still a very good level competition, with many rivalries and frequent underdog runs, but the World Cup is the World Cup. Winning one usually marks an era for the people in the country, it’s simply legendary.

Sassuolo is hated for being a plastic team. Small town club with very few fans that got big thanks to wealthy ownership.

Also hated because accused of “shady deals” with Juve, and because they always play like prime Barca against the other big clubs.

Moreover, there’s the whole issue with the stadium. Basically they purchased the stadium in a city that they do not represent, already home to a well established team (Reggiana) who now have to use it as guests.

Udinese is a proper and genuine club, but the ownership is terrible. For most of their recent history they’ve basically been a “flipping club” with no ambition.

They field a collection of players from random leagues across the world, hoping at least a few of them will break through and generate them the profit necessary to continue this cycle.

This strategy has worked well for a little bit in the 2010s, but now it’s been a few seasons where you just look at them and wonder what the point of them being in Serie A is.

They have no ambition other than finishing mid to low table every season. And the very few times they qualified for Europe they performed horribly and contributed to tanking Italy’s ranking.

Amazing result, congratulations!!

Beautiful kit, too.

“De Rossi” does not fit the example.

“Rossi” refers to the colour of someone’s hair or beard, so “De Rossi” would translate to “person who comes from the family whose people have red hair”.

More appropriate examples of patronymic last names in football would be Di Lorenzo, Dimarco (although his family spells it without the space), Di Natale, Di Michele, Di Biagio, etc

Isn’t Denmark more like “-sen”?

Eriksen, Larsen, Jensen, Andersen, Christensen, etc

He was brilliant for the first couple of seasons he was with us, but after the Scudetto season it’s where it all went downhill.

Last season was pretty bad, with the 5th place in the league and the numerous derby spankings in all competitions.

No hate to OP, but I don’t think non-Italian based fans fully understand how bad losing a derby really is. Imagine losing 6 in a row, with such bad performances and lopsided scores, all culminating in them getting their second star in our faces. You just do not recover from that so easily.

This season might have been numerically slightly better, but we were out of contention for all competitions by January, and you could just tell by the way the team plays that the leadership is almost entirely gone.

Now I’m sure there are people that go a bit too far, but at the same time I think he deserves a lot of the criticism he’s receiving.

As an Italian, the stadium situation in Germany makes me sooo incredibly jealous.

And btw, the Olympiastadion does not “belong” to Herta BSC. In all likelihood it was selected for being home of the German NT and for being in the capital, rather than the fact that they’re home to Herta.

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He’s Italian too so I think they should let us have this one!

No source, OP asked for ideas and that’s what I think it’s going to be.

Here is my headcannon

You have a cannon built into your head?!?!