I just checked the listings for the early Sunday match that RAI Intl is showing and it it says they are showing Atalanta/Juve. I can't understand why they would show this match when two top five clubs will be playing at the same time in Chievo/Lazio. Who makes these decisions?
They've probably been getting complaints from their viewers. that Juventus hasn't been shown within the past 10 days. After all, Juve is the most popular Italian team in Italy and worldwide.
I haven't noticed You're right that Juve is the most popular team in Italy but I don't think the same can be said about the world. Milan and Inter, I think, can both claim to have more fans worldwide.
Any stats on that? I've never seen a survey. It always seems when RAI reads their e-mail, it's from some Juve fan in Venezuela or Canada or wherever. That's what I was basing my informal poll on. I guess that restricts consideration to Italian ex-pats, among which Juve might still have the edge. But I suppose fans of other nationalities who follow Serie A might indeed tip the scales toward the Milan teams worldwide. Especially Milan, after they became hugely popular in the early 90s. Not sure how Inter can be more popular than Juventus though.
You lot kidding me??? Lazio is by the far the most supported serie A team in the world. Thank you eurosport I get Chievo - Lazio on sunday afternoon.
I base this on what I've heard from other people in different countries. In eastern europe Milan is by far the most popular club, due to the great eastern europeans that have played for the club. In Asia Milan is also the most popluar club, probably because of the many trophies they won in the '90s. In South America Inter was the most popular because of Ronaldo. And they grabbed many more fans in different countries because of Ronaldo alone. But with him gone I feel their popularity will wane. Juve has many fans worldwide but I don't think they have increased nor decreased their fan base in the last 15 years.
Well, I'd be willing to bet Juventus is still the most popular team among the Italian ex-pats who watch RAI International and who would most likely write in and "encourage" Juventus to be on more often. Actually, I think they've shown a better variety of teams than usual this season. Last week's game was Perugia-Chievo, wasn't it? In past year, in a week without a "big game", they would've automatically shown the league leader. Perhaps they have a rule about showing Chievo two weeks in a row. Or - more likely - they got a flood of complaints about not showing the poignant first post-Agnelli Juve game.
Last week was actually an exceptional week. Someone in the U.S. with a C-band/4DTV or grey market Canadian DBS would get: Saturday: Roma x Como Sunday: Perugia x Chievo, Lazio x Reggina, Juventus x Piacenza and Udinese x Milan 5 out of 9 games, mainly due RAI International showing a game (Perugia x Chievo, which was also broadcast delayed on RAI Italia, International Channel, and local ethnic channels like NYC's channel 31) which did NOT overlap with the games Goltv showed. North America has become the Serie A heaven outside of Italy.