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The Founding Fathers of Italian Football: A tribute to Edoardo Bosio, James Richardson Spensley and Herbert Kilpin
Italy may now be one of the leading names in world football, but association football came to the country relatively late. Italy in the late 1880s was a newly...
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Cristiano Lucarelli & Livorno: A bond forged in red
Making your debut is never easy. But as Cristiano Lucarelli started his first game for the Azzurrini, Italy’s under-21 side, he was in familiar surroundings. Livorno was Lucarelli’s home....
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Vines of Glory: Andrea Pirlo’s greatest moments re-imagined as fine wines
The Maestro exhales, his wooden chair creaking back and forth as he finally takes a seat. The sun begins to set over the hills of Fiero, illuminating the vineyard...
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A Roman epic: Lazio’s 1999/00 Scudetto triumph
The date was May 18, 2000 and the new millennium was in full force: the Olsen Brothers had recently won the Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark, Britney Spears had...
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Adriano: Inter’s Brazilian superstar who flew too close to the sun
The story of Icarus and his father, Daedalus, is one of recklessness that results in a tragic fall from grace. It also provoked the idiom “Don’t fly too close...
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Red and blue rivals: Bologna, Genoa and the great theft of 1925
In 1925, Italy was in the grip of fascism. Following a campaign of scare tactics and violence that began with the 1922 March on Rome, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini,...
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The Brazilian Mancini: The €1000 man who danced and dazzled for Roma
Serie A has been blessed with outstanding Brazilians over the last 50 years. The list is almost endless: Aldair, Adriano, Branco, Cafu, Careca, Dunga, Julio Cesar, Kaka, Rivaldo, Roberto...
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The launch of Golazio London: Calcio comes to Camberwell Road
Preamble Here at Gentleman Ultra we have long dreamed of having a place where we could hang out with like-minded souls and indulge in our love of 90s Italian...
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Death & resurrection: Last rites administered to historic Italian clubs
While Juventus and Real Madrid finessed the details of Cristiano Ronaldo’s €340m-valued transfer, a distant funeral bell tolled for three historic Italian clubs – a scenario that accentuated the...
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