The Italian government is now pushing football clubs to create La tessera del tifoso, a card which fans will need to own, should they want a chance to have a ticket for a game.
The card comprises a credit card and to obtain it there needs to be an authorization from the Minister of Interior. Amazing
A banner by AC Milan Ultras Brigate Rossonere for Kaka' reads "Don't touch Kaka'"
Every footballlover in the world is aware of the chance that A.C. Milan superstar Ricardo Kaka’ might move to English Manchester City for the amazing amount of more than 100 million €. I also think that every true footballlover, despite the color of his heart, is hoping that Kaka’ will not finalize his move to the Sheikh ownned English club.
Since the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment has bought the club from the controversial former prime minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra, there have always been big transfer rumors surrounding the Citizens, with the only Robinho, among all the football superstars named to be joining the club, accepting the move to Manchester from Real Madrid.
Now the club presided by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been given the green light by AC Milan to talk directly to Kaka’ to persuade him to leave Milan, while groups of AC Milan supporters have been standing, chanting and waving banners, under the headquarters of the club in Via Filippo Turati to show their disappointment to the will of the club to accept the money and let their player go. Unfortunately for them, luck is a wheel and it is their turn to see their best players “robbed” and covered with money by some other rich club. Many football supporters in the world, in the past years, have hated AC Milan for being a rich club, always capable of attracting the best players with extraordinarily good economic offers.
Despite what Kaka’ will do, though, football is more than a lot of money, much more.
Ho appena terminato di leggere un appassionatissimo libro di un ragazzo italiano che vive in Inghilterra, Stefano Faccendini. Il libro si chiama Noi siamo il Wimbledon e narra la storia della rinascita della squadra di calcio di uno dei molti borough di Londra. Questo e gli altri libri di Stefano, Tifosi Ribelli e La Trasferta, si trovano qui.
Il Wimbledon FC, che negli anni ’90 aveva ripetutamente calcato il prestigioso palcoscenico della Premier League, in un momento di difficolta’ economiche viene sradicato dal suo quartiere di appartenenza da affaristi che poco hanno a vedere col mondo del calcio, e trasferito in un’altra area di Londra. I tifosi si ribellano e fondano una nuova societa’, il Wimbledon AFC, di cui quindi diventano collettivamente proprietari, che riparte dal basso dell’ultima lega dilettantistica inglese.
Il libro contiene molti dettagli interessanti riguardo le motivazioni delle varie parti in causa anche se prende apertamente posizione a favore dei supporters del Wimbledon. La storia del Wimbledon AFC, di cui non ero a conoscenza prima della lettura del libro, che e’ anche quella dell’FC United of Manchester e di poche altre squadre che disputano campionati britannici, restituisce orgoglio e dignita’ alla categoria del tifoso di calcio, usualmente bistrattato da tutte le componenti dell’universo del football. I tifosi di queste squadre si sono coalizzati, hanno superato differenze e carenze, provvedendo anche all’aspetto economico della gestione di un club. E adesso hanno la garanzia che la squadra per la quale tifano non li tradira’ in futuro, vendendosi per pochi spiccioli al miglior offerente, per esempio cambiando il nome dello stadio in omaggio ad uno sponsor o vendendo un giocatore simbolo per denaro.
Complimenti a Stefano per la cura, il dettaglio nelle informazioni e, soprattutto, la passione trasmessa a me e agli altri lettori del suo bel libro.
Lech Poznan – Polonia Bytom 3-0
Death and football keep on being strictly intertwined these days. The death of Gabriele Sandri has shocked Italy and Europe’s football audiences. He was just one guy traveling from Rome to Milan to watch a football game.
When Gabriele and his friends, S.S. Lazio supporters, came across a car of Juventus supporters, traveling north to watch their team in Parma, at a service station on the motorway, they had a fight. Police shortly after arrived and one of them, Luigi Spaccarotella, fired a shot towards them being on the other side of the motorway, about 700 . away from them. It’s not clear why he has taken the shot at all, what is sure is that he hit Gabriele Sandri in the back of his neck, and he killed him. Gabriele was hit while sleeping in the back seat of his friend’s car.
He was an Ultras, the social phenomenon which, in this very moment, seems to be the biggest in Italian society. He went regularly to see Lazio’s away games across the country. Ultras are being kicked out of the stadia, which is one of the reasons why foreigners looking at Italian football see always empty spaces around the pitches.
In the meanwhile Serie A keeps going and the Parliament is approving stricter measures against football fans, to ensure public safety for everyone. Despite all this safety, Manchester United fans were stabbed just yesterday, 13th of December, around the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, before the Champions League tie.
It is difficult to talk about football, this is also football today.
Here is a collection of pictures with banner from football fans from all over Europe to remember Gabriele Sandri.
One more time for this season another great 3 days of live football on our favourite p2p applications is to come. I have seen the stats for the previous post and many users have downloaded the p2p software needed to watch the matches so I am going to post that again and channels listing will follow, enjoy!
The basic p2p software for football online streaming are TV Ants and Sopcast. Once you have downloaded these two, you can download the Remote Control to activate them. If the match is listed to be on Bwin, just follow the link and register, then you should be able to watch every thing they show live.
Saturday 07/04/2007
Sunday 08/04/2007
Monday 09/04/2007
In order to watch Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s match I am sure that every football fan already knows what do do: install some software, and the basics for football online streaming are TV Ants and Sopcast.
Then just use the remote to acces the channels listed below:
Tuesday 03/04/2007
Wednesday 03/04/2007
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