MetaFilter posts tagged with italy and soccer

Death of italian soccer

darkripper — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:26:38 -0800

After the death of the policeman Filippo Raciti during the fights happened during and after the soccer match between Catania and Palermo, Italy is trying to decide what to do against violent ultras.
The Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies had a big impact on the english soccer. Is Italy going to start an effective crackdown against football violence?

C'mon, you knew it was going to happen...

Cyrano — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:59:03 -0800

The World Cup! This is your spoiler-free post... Don't be a dick. Don't post a FPP revealing who won!!!

Tor! Goal! Rete!

keepoutofreach — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:24:26 -0800

Two goals worth a million words. In Arabic, English, Chinese, Portuguese and yes, German. Italy's 2 goals against Germany, from 8 different commentators, one of them being Diego Maradona. Heavy YouTube usage unfortunately, although the post links to the leading Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera.

percine — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:52:15 -0800

World Cup Conspiracy. Here's one for the X-Files. The Azurri believe they were the victims of a conspiracy to oust them from World Cup 2002.

Alessandro Del Piero broke his usual cool exterior as anger seeped through. "In ten years of my career I have never complained," said the Juventus star, "but in four games too many strange things have happened."