TGU Calcio Castaways (E05): With Wayne Girard In the latest instalment of our series, Richard Hall asked Wayne Girard to choose his favourite goals, games and person to hang out with on a...
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The dancing feet of Gaetano Castrovilli: Italy’s rising star inspiring the kids of Bari
You can almost hear the shifting of his feet against each blade of grass, a rustle in the wind. His feet were dancing to a beat, in tune with...
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The birth of political extremism in Italian Football
The following story explores neo-radicalism during Italy’s Years of Lead and the era’s impact on contemporary football. The Phoenix of Fascism On 2 August 1980, young Angela Fresu shifted...
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Mario Balotelli: A portrait of adversity
The year is 1461 – Portuguese explorers have just sailed onto the shores of modern day Sierra Leone, just above the Gulf of Guinea. It’s the tipping point of...
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Daniele De Rossi: The wall of Ostia
The ancient city of Ostia has been the physical and geographical guardian of Rome since the Lupetta she-wolf saved Romulus and Remus from their infanticidal fate along the banks...
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The footballer & the Mafia: Fabrizio Miccoli’s flirtation with ‘Cosa Nostra’
When the British East India Company returned from the Far East in the 1660s, they presented a strange plant called tea to King Charles II. His beautiful Portuguese bride...
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Cassano: The boy from Bari who became calcio’s most polarising character
The 1990s inside Bari’s biggest slum – the San Nicola district of Bari Vecchia – were particularly difficult times for the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern...
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