I watched today the opening match. Sounds terrible to see Italy, Chile, Netherlands at home, compared with two teams today.
At least 50-60% of Argentines have Italian origins, similar to Uruguay and in some aspects Brazil...That's why Italians support these teams...maybe Australia could be included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Argentina Armani, Tagliafico, Ansaldi, Biglia, Fazio, Messi, Di Maria, Mascherano, Otamendi, Salvio, Lo Celso, mother of Dybala. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Uruguay Muslera, Stuani, Vecino ?, Cavani. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Australia Luongo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Sweden Guidetti
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkAiXyWA5F5/?hl=en&taken-by=fbernardeschi Federico Bernadeschi's post today. So we aren't the only ones who are still struggling to cope
Yes, but he is not present at this World Cup... Forlan obviously from Friuli. Or Furlania, like some people say. Croatian actress Mira Furlan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Furlan The multiethnic and subsequent multilingual tradition of Friuli means that the name of the region varies according to locality. Besides Friuli from Italian(Italian: [friˈuːli]), other local Romance forms include Friulan Friûl ( listen (help·info)) and Venetian Friul; Friaul in German and Furlanija (Cyrillic: Фурланија) in Slovene and South Slavic languages. Many footballers from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay could play for Italy also. But it's complicated how do they feel, if they have Italian, Spanish, Aboriginal, maybe some other group from Europe, Middle East... Example, Angel di Maria. Obvious Italian surname, but strong Aboriginal appearance. Is he closer to his Aboriginal roots or Italian? From our European aspect, we don't understand that well. We consider Europe as too important, and we can't always be central force. Diego Simeone also has both origins, Aboriginal, Italian, but somehow I think that he is closer to his Italian heritage. South Americans, Central Americans accept those nations much easier. In USA, you are always Irish, Italian, Puerto Rican, etc. Paulo Dybala Polish - Italian...how can we consider him from European aspect? Polish surname, Italian mother and he isn't playing for any of these two countries. Many South American people rather accept his South American heritage, than European. They even strongly oppose to their European origins. They will rather say: 100% Argentino, Colombiano, Brasileiro, etc. John Travolta said that his Irish heritage shaped him stronger than Italian, which is funny, because he has Italian surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Travolta "He grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture." That's why it's harder to place feelings from our own perspective.
ehh , but those are trivial records anyway. no one really remembers stuff like that. records like failing to make it out of the group phase while defending WC champs people remember. Brazil 66 , France 2002 , Italy 2010 , Spain , 2014 Plus it's early. Spain lost it's first game in 2010 and won the WC. To date the only team that has yet to do so. So it's highly possible Germany still goes through. But this is the first time Germany has lost a match in the WC group stage in a quite a while , no? Germany the new Italy starting slow perhaps ?
Germany played ok but looked a lot more sluggish and slower than Mexico who also seemed to have the crowd behind them....
Karma for Germany. Schweinsteiger was on TSN (Canadian ESPN basically) and when asked who his favourites were for World Cup he says Italy and Netherlands. Add him to th list with der spiegel and ballack of taking shots at us. Have your fun now... l’Italia non dimentica mai
Thing is, even if they would have barely qualified, they will have played a lot differently come tournament time. Heck maybe even if they made the second round on s coin toss things could have improved. Italy is always Italy.
At least they are interesting, real pro-football country, I would rather see these anti-football teams out. Portugal is a nice team, kind people, interesting Mediterranenan temperament, nice cuisine, wine porto and positive attitude. They work hard for their results and they deserved much more with their Golden Generation in 90's, early 2000's.
He said we lost our opening match as defending champs in 2010 ? Or did he say we lost a match in the group phase and /or failed to go through as defending champs? The prior wouldn't surprise me , at all , considering their knowledge and bubbled parroted view points.