Rossi is AMERICAN, not Italian

[lond2345]

here is a story from the uk independent
Rossi the natural-born finisher gunning to be United's new baby-faced assassin (http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/man_united/article339773.ece)
Published: 20 January 2006
Italian striker offers the invention and vision which Sir Alex Ferguson's side has been lacking. Andy Hunter reports

Everyone knows that Rossi was born in America. The kid is not Italian he is american. We all know the anti-american bias of british papers (their bashing of Howard, Glazers) and now they refuse to call the future star of man u (Rossi) "american."

Is this a way to save space in their paper/a mistake/or bias? you decide.

[corina]

If he is playing for Italy he would be Italian(for player - country association sakes)? Like Adu was born in Ghana, you dont see people referring to him as Ghanian.

[Jabinho]

If he is playing for Italy he would be Italian(for player - country association sakes)? Like Adu was born in Ghana, you dont see people referring to him as Ghanian.
I've seen him refered to as Ghanian in the British press and when they do articles on him at the BBC they usually put the articles in the African section of their website instead of the "Global" section or elsewhere..

Example (note the url after you click it):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/3582849.stm

[white riot]

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=292722

If you don't like what's written in the British press don't read it, it's not for your benefit anyway.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Italian striker offers the invention and vision which Sir Alex Ferguson's side has been lacking

No need to cry because a guy who would instantly become your greatest ever player has turned your mob down. It's called ambition. I don't see any of you whining about raping Ghana of Adu. Now piss off back to YA with your American shite.

[dmike]

dammit not more Rossi threads

[PsychedelicCeltic]

The British football press is pretty crap and is genuinely anti-American, at least on footballing terms. I think they had good reasons to be anti-Glazer (they haven't been anywhere near as anti-Kraft, who may be buying Liverpool), but they pretty consistently underestimate the US national team and the American public. Patronizing to the hilt.

All you really have to know is that Gary Lineker read out a fake US news report during the last World Cup that consistently used US sporting terms instead of soccer terms (i.e. McBride shot a touchdown into the Portugal net for one point) and the British press bought it hook, line and sinker. Lineker also picked the US to finish last, which was just patently stupid punditry. Unfortunately, most British news reports have basically picked the US to finish last again in 2006.

Oh well. Makes it sweeter when England inevitably ********s up and the US exceeds expectations ;).

[white riot]

The British football press is pretty crap and is genuinely anti-American, at least on footballing terms.

Don't read it then thickhead, it's not written with you in mind it's for us to have a good laugh at your crappy little team and it does the job pretty well.

[PsychedelicCeltic]

No need to cry because a guy who would instantly become your greatest ever player has turned your mob down. It's called ambition. I don't see any of you whining about raping Ghana of Adu. Now piss off back to YA with your American shite.
Yeah, a guy who came to the USA at 8 is raping poor Ghana. The only thing Ghanaian about Freddy Adu is his ancestry. His football, his accent, his life is thoroughly American.

And Rossi won't get picked for Italy anyway, so he'll come crawling back to us eventually.

[PsychedelicCeltic]

Don't read it then thickhead, it's not written with you in mind it's for us to have a good laugh at your crappy little team and it does the job pretty well.
I was unaware the British football press was not written with British people in mind.

It's funny you call the United States as a crappy little team, as I remember England going out at the exact same stage in the last World Cup.

[jayro75]

The funny thing about this thread is that every time I've watched a Man U match where Rossi comes on they are constantly calling him the Italian striker born in New Jersey..

I don't see the complaint from yanks about Rossi deciding he wants to play for Italy.. His heritage is Italian he's lived there for years.. He associates himself as Italian get over it...

[Toon³]

To be honest, who really gives a crap?

[pokemoncards]

No need to cry because a guy who would instantly become your greatest ever player has turned your mob down. It's called ambition. I don't see any of you whining about raping Ghana of Adu. Now piss off back to YA with your American shite.
let him actually do something in the premiership.

[corina]

American by birth, Italian by the grace of God.:)

[NattyBo]

No need to cry because a guy who would instantly become your greatest ever player has turned your mob down.

I have no opinion on the original topic but how would a guy who has yet to crack the first team lineup at his team instantly be our greatest player ever when our second choice goalkeeper has already won the oldest cup competition in England, on that same team?

[Teso Dos Bichos]

let him actually do something in the premiership.

He already has.

[Leto]

Everyone knows that Rossi was born in America. The kid is not Italian he is american. We all know the anti-american bias of british papers (their bashing of Howard, Glazers) and now they refuse to call the future star of man u (Rossi) "american."

Is this a way to save space in their paper/a mistake/or bias? you decide.

Bloody hell, they even said in the article that he was born in New Jersey. It's not about 'refusing to acknowledge him as American', you numpty - his nationality is irrelevant. Howard got no more bad press than Rio Ferdinand or David Beckham or Patrick Vieira or Adrian Mutu or El-Hadji Diouf or plenty of other footballers, and for more reason than some of them. He hasn't even been in the news for quite a few months, let alone referred to in a negative fashion. Do Reyna/McBride/Bocanegra/Convey et al. get bad press? Whyever not?

If Rossi calls himself Italian, I don't see why the papers should say any different.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

The only thing Ghanaian about Freddy Adu is his ancestry.

Funny, particularly when the entire premise of this thread is a pathetic whine about the so-called ignorance of the English press...

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I have no opinion on the original topic but how would a guy who has yet to crack the first team lineup at his team instantly be our greatest player ever when our second choice goalkeeper has already won the oldest cup competition in England, on that same team?

Achievements do not equate to greatness, particularly in terms of sport. Teams carry passengers and others forgo personal honours for team loyalty. It just doesn't work that way.

[Sachsen]

If Rossi is American, then John McEnroe is German.

Now PLEASE, my fellow Americans, stop starting Rossi threads.

Please.