#also Filippo and Luca in 10/11 THAT'S GREAT

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Interesting...

[driftovertheedge]

rules:

always repost the rules

answer the questions given to you by the one who tagged you!

give 11 questions

tag 11 people

i was tagged by @schreibenzi ty!!❤️ sorry for being so late uni was kicking my ass but now i’m finally free (for like two weeks but still)

1. which remake would you most like to be a part of?

oohhh definitively skam nl for the amazing aesthetic and the girl squad (also just biking everywhere i love biking djskaldja)

2. if you could be best friends with someone from each remake, who would it be?

imane (the fr girl quad don’t deserve her). filippo. hanna, david and matteo (we’re both lazy touch-starved depressed gremlins who love to eat and lie around on the floor). liv and isa. joana.  

3. what changes would you make to each remake? (i’m not following other remakes as closely as i am with druck but well)

skam fr: less drama for the sake of drama in the second half of S03. most of S04. people in their late twenties playing teens.

skam it: ugh the racism all around? white sana getting a season. people in their late twenties playing teens.

druck: the treatment of wlws. pacing of S03E08 and S03E09. david being outed. matteo’s mi not being addressed.

skam nl: noah’s reaction to the SA thing. liv wearing a fucking wedding dress to apologize to noah like !?! why???

skam es: more body diversity.

skam us: drunk megan forcing a kiss on shay. grace and megan talking about shay’s sexuality in that locker room. yikes.

4. what was your favourite scene from each remake?

skam fr: the polaris-inspired first kiss. 

skam it: boy squad singing together

druck: (i tried to refrain myself here and failed whew) matteo’s panic attack. both the almost kiss and the first kiss. david coming out to matteo. all of E10.   

skam nl: isa and lucas vdh looking for kes at dawn. liv listening to lana del rey’s love while doing laundry. any scene with the girl squad together tbh. 

skam es: cris and joana’s first kiss. joana speaking for herself.

5. if you could make your own season, who would it be about and what would happen?

i…have no ideas but a season with characters in university would be nice? 

6. is there a country you think would make a brilliant remake? if so, which and why?

i’d love to see any asian country attempting a remake (not mine tho cause it’d just be bad lbr) but i’m not so sure how adaptable skam is to asian culture.

7. what is your favourite quote from each remake

“don’t you know that feeling when you just want to belong without having to explain yourself?” + ��life is now. with you”. my brain is too fried to think of others tbh.

8. what is your favourite headcanon?

david had never smoked a joint in his life before he met matteo and only did so to get a chance to talk to matteo. matteo has great music taste but his most listened to playlist is the one with tons of super cheesy love songs that remind him of david + tmtc (no one will know about this ofc).   

9. what is your opinion of the nl boy squad?

i’m not too emotionally invested in any of them tbh. jayden is kinda annoying and if they pair him up with engel in later seasons i’m gonna throw hands. kes has no character development for two seasons straight like??? he’s literally the same person (i’m also very against the idea of kes and isa getting back together). not sure how i feel about lucas yet but i do like his friendship with isa.

10. rank most bearable to most despicable william

daniel (no tragic backstory needed to manipulate us into pitying the william character !!! he’s just a silly jock boy trying to make grace happy)

alex (as much as i hate watching noorhelm seasons in general S02 of druck was really well made and from the second half of S02 on it’s mostly chris’ personality and humor bleeding into alex tbh)

edoardo

noah

william

charles

11. what thing from og do you wish a remake would change, and if one already has, what was it and do you prefer the change?

if we’re not counting S02 in its entirety then most of S04 (not focusing on sana enough, the bench convo, jonas/eva/p’chris side plot, waiting until the very last episode to show us vilde’s family life, noora getting back together with william,…). skam fr did change the bench convo but the whole season is just yikes. skam es and druck have set up lots of hint about their vildes and flesh them out more. i also have high hope for both amiras’ season.  

[ciaoragno]

11 questions asked and answered (skam edition)

I was tagged by @sttrawberries <3

1. Always repost the rules

2. Answer the questions given to you by the one who tagged you!

3. Give 11 questions

4. Tag 11 people

1.  To which character do you feel most related to?

we all wanna be badass feisty noora but i’m probably vilde tbh. when she said ‘not pretty enough,’ i felt that. love her and her remakes no matter how annoying they seem at first. (also i see myself in her and that’s probably why she is annoying for me lol)

2. Do you watch all of the remakes?

i’m caught up with 5/7 of the remakes. i haven’t watched skam esp and wtfock yet except for a few clips, but i plan on watching them in the near future when things in my life have died down a bit

3. Did you see the og while it was airing?

no, unfortunately. i’m sort of new to the fandom, actually.

4. Name 3 facts you like about every remake (or the ones you’ve seen)

i’m gonna do 3 overall okay. does a great job at making side characters just as dynamic as the mains (druck and esp italia with the villa boys); gave the william character, the most problematic character, a much better character development (all except france); how they changed the opening speeches to reflect their own culture

5. Have you tried to convince some of your friends (or anyone) to watch skam? Did you succeed?

oh, definitely. i’ve managed to convince 2 of them to watch. one is absolutely obsessed with incantava already even though she hasn’t seen s3 yet.

6. How did you find about out skam?

saw pictures of eva and gio on twitter so i found out about italia first, then i saw france so i found out these were remakes. that’s when i decided to watch the og.

7. First impression and what do you think about it after watching it? (it can be about any character, season or remake, you choose)

s1 seemed like a typical high school show for me. UNTIL the breakup scene. again, this is italia. still the most beautiful breakup scene for me and that’s really what made me wanna continue watching s2 bec it suddenly felt different from the high school shows. then ofc i watched the brilliance that was s2 (marti’s) and i haven’t been the same since lol

8. What did you think when you found out that there were going to make remakes of skam?

i found out through the remakes so... couldn’t be happier haha

9. Favourite speech?

og sana’s speech about war and prejudice in s2. nothing has been able to top that. it was so simple but so impactful.

oh but do you mean the opening speeches in s1? i’m gonna say my favorite is druck’s. just because this being “politically correct” is so relatable to the teenagers in my country. but also shoutout to the one in skam italia s2—the phone convos about homosexuality.

10. Favourite version of every character from all of the remakes? (or pick three if you don’t want to write much)

eva - isa, noora - eleonora, sana - amira (druck), chris - josefina, vilde - daphne, isak - lucas (fr), jonas - giovanni, even - elliott, william - edoardo, eskild - filippo

11. Favourite room from all of the one’s we’ve seen?

niccolo’s! it looks so nice, cozy, and so full of memorabilia

i’ve done this so many times lol so i’m not gonna tag people anymore. the reason i still keep doing this and why i started this in the first place is so i can keep talking about it and so i can keep reading other people’s thoughts about this hahaha so here are my questions for anyone who wants to do it:

[pezzo-di-paradiso]

I was tagged by @sciogli-lingua , grazie mille, le domande sono meravigliose e in bocca al lupo per i tuoi esami! Spero non siano troppo difficili! 

RULES: answer the 11 questions. Make 11 of your own and tag 11 people!

1. What is/are your favorite name(s)? Why, if there’s a reason?

There are a lot of names that I like but for no particular reason, they just sound lovely to me and that’s all. From Lithuanian names I like more traditional ones, my favourites for girls are Eglė or Ieva, for boys I’d say Lukas or Matas. Choosing from Italian names my absolute favourite is Emilia (would totally change my name into this one or name my daughter like that) and from boy’s names I love Marco, Filippo, Matteo, Luca.

2. If you had to be turned into an animal for a day, which one would you choose?

I’d probably be a penguin. Because that’s my favourite animal and it would be really cool to be able to tolerate cold, also swim very well. And I’m clumsy anyway so I’d make a great penguin.

3. Is it better to be early or late?

Depends what are we talking about. If it’s something simple and related to time management like arriving for an appointment then I’d say early because I was raised like that and I was always told that it’s better to wait than make someone wait for you. But if we are talking about some deeper things like feelings or accomplishments, achieving goals I’d still say it’s better early. Feelings wear off and opportunities go wasted, time runs out so there is no better time than now. I know I sometimes paraphrase a Lithuanian saying and I jokingly say that if you can do something tomorrow, never do it right now, but please don’t listen to me.

4. Rate the last movie you watched.

The last movie I watched was “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” by Yorgos Lanthimos. And oh dear it’s 11/10. I absolutely loved it and Yorgos is a master of creating and most importantly keeping suspense and that psychological horror throughout the whole movie even though the characters are intimidatingly emotionless. Great choice of actors, very beautiful cast and the soundtrack was very wisely chosen, too. I also recommend seeing “Lobster” which was the first movie to give me a feeling I still can’t describe - I hated it as much as I loved it (and I loved it a lot)

5. Do you play an instrument? If not, which one would you like to play?

Oh my, the guitar I got for my 13th birthday is somewhere in the corner of the room, all covered in dust and all I know is probably only three chords. I’d love to learn to play it one day, but so far all my tries have been unsuccessful. Also, I love the piano and I’m trying to convince my cousin to teach me in return of checking / doing his homework and school projects. 

6. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever witnessed?

I really have no idea, sorry. My life is so not fun. 

7. What would your younger self think of you if you met?

Like, if she recognised me as the “older self”? She’d probably think that I’ve changed a lot and she’d be happy for that. She’d think that I’m brave and strong (which is not true, but compared to her it really seems so). She’d probably say “I thought you’d be prettier. But at least you’re smiling more now.” And I hope she’d offer me a bit of that childish happiness she still had. 

8. If you’re not in high school anymore, what do you miss about it? If you’re still in it, what won’t you miss once you’re out?

Honestly, I don’t miss anything from high school. Nothing at all. I absolutely hated it, it was terrible and I’m glad it’s over. University is such a different place and it’s waaaaaaaay better that high school.

9. What is one talent you wish you had – and one you do have?

Oh, I wish I had any kind of talent! Being able to write poetry would be cool. I’d love to have a lovely voice to sing, too. Sadly, I have no talents at all. Dancing? NO way. Singing? I feel sorry for my neighbours when I get the urge to sing loudly. Writing? Sadly, I’m no good at it. Drawing / painting? I wish.. (I’m such a loser, I’ve just noticed)

10. Name a song everyone should listen to in their lifetime.

Vietato morire - Ermal Meta. There are a lot of great songs worth listening to, but this is the one which had the biggest impact on me and hands down it is a masterpiece. The others I’m really fond of are Truce by twenty one pilots and Therapy by All Time Low. Those were the ones which led me though tough times and still give me chills. 

11. What are you passionate about?

In general, arts. First of all, literature and more specifically - Edgar Allan Poe. He’s my favourite author and I could talk about him and his works for hours. I love movies too, I admit I haven’t seen a lot of classics but I have a list of some great films I could recommend. I am very fascinated by sculpture, especially the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Obviously, I love music and apart from those popular artists that I listen, I like some classics too. “Experience” and “I Giorni” by Ludovico Einaudi is a must-listen. I have never heard anything more beautiful, I swear. 

My questions:

1. What is your biggest weakness and what is your greatest strength?

2. What is your dream, your goal you’d never give up on?

3. If there was a person who could give an answer to any kind of question in the world (from the most personal ones to the weirdest), what would you ask?

4. Talk about your favourite movie. Why do you like it? What it means to you (if anything)?

5. What is your favourite quote? Why?

6. There is a lyric in one song that I really love: “Perché quello che sono, l`ho imparato da te” (”Because what I am, I learned it from you”) Who is the person that taught you what you are (not what you know)? How did they help / influence your personal formation / growth?

7. I’ve heard people saying “I loved the stars but then I found out they require maths”. If there we absolutely no limits, what career path would you choose? 

8. Tell me your latest discovery (it can be even the smallest thing, a new hobby, a new book you loved, anything)

9. If you were a power of nature (wind, storm, rain, sun, thunder, lightning, ect.) what would you be? Why?

10. What kind of person you aspire to be? What kind of traits you’ve already got? And what is still left to improve?

11. Choose a song as a soundtrack for today. What matches your mood and which lyric speaks to you the most today?

I tag: @ohermal @willevince @nineteeninetyeight @ermalmeta @peterpanvuoivolareconme @arsenalmakesmesuffer @the-infamous-wine-bottle​ @mariogolmez @kristian-kostov anyone else who wants to do it!

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Liverpool's next opponent is Inter Milan in Champions League.

Liverpool's next opponent is Inter Milan in Champions League. The team has already lost to Manchester United and Liverpool in the last two rounds.

The team is in the middle of a difficult season, but it has a good chance to win the title.

The Inter Milan team is led by Gian Piero Gasperini. He has a lot of experience in winning titles. He is the head coach of the team for the last three years.

In the last season, the team won the Italian Cup and the Serie A.

It is the first time that the team has won the Champions League title. The previous season, it was the third time that it won the title, but the team was not able to win it.

This year, the Inter Milan has a new coach, who is known as "the Italian Messi".

The new coach has a great experience in the Champions league. He won the championship with Juventus in the previous season.

He has a very good team, which has a high level of football.

They have a good balance between attacking and defensive players.

Their main rivals are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United.

At the moment, the new coach of Inter Milan is Cristiano Ronaldo. He was the best player of the previous team.

However, the club has a number of other players who have a lot to do.

Among them are:

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* Ronaldo, who has won a lot in the past.

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* Ronaldo has a contract with the club for the next season. He will be the main player of this team. This is the main reason why the team is so strong.

You can watch the game of Inter in the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fq8-2Hn3o4

The match will be held at the Juventus Stadium in Turin.

Now, the main question is:

Will Juventus win the Champions?

The answer to this question is not so easy.

Juventus is a team of many talents. The main player is Cristian Ronaldo.

But, the other players are also very good.

There are many players who can play in the midfield.

For example, the following players can play https://777score.com/football/tournaments/europe/uefa-champions-league there:

1. Fabio Cannavaro

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3. Paulo Dybala

4. Edinson Cavani

5. Andrea Pirlo

6. Mario Mandzukic

7. Danilo.

8. Gianluigi Buffon

9. Antonio Conte

10. Mauricio Pochettino

11. Naldo

12. Cristiano.

13. Maxi Pereira

14. Giorgio Chiellini

15. Filippo Inzaghi

16. Lorenzo Insigne

17. Kaka

18. Javier Mascherano

19. Marco Verratti

20. Alex Sandro

21. Rodrigo.

22. Pablo Fornals

23. Fabian Schar.

24. Daniel Sturridge

25. Luis Suarez

26. Thiago Silva

27. Roberto Firmino.

28. Sergio Aguero.

29. Alexis Sanchez.

30. Lionel Messi.

31. Lucas.

32. Neymar.

33. Kevin de Bruyne.

34. Eden Hazard.

35. Mohamed Salah.

36. Sadio Mane.

37. Alisson.

38. Riyad Mahrez.

39. Willian.

40. Adrien Rabiot.

41. Dejan Lovren.

42. Dusan Tadic.

43. Toni Kroos.

44. Nicolas Otamendi.

45. Juanfran.

46. James Rodriguez.

47. Jorginho.

48. Thomas Muller.

49. Alexandre Lacazette.

50. Christian Eriksen.

51. Luka Modric.

52. Trent Alexander-Arnold.

53. Leroy Sane.

54. Robin van Persie.

55. Erik Lamela.

56. Diego Costa.

57. Cesc Fabregas.

58. David Silva.

59. Angel Di Maria.

60. Aleksandar Kolarov.

61. Fernando Llorente.

62. Matija Nastasic.

63. Joao Felix.

64. Isco.

65. Marcelo.

The match will start at the end of the day.

If the team wins, it will be a great victory for the team. The fans will be happy.

Besides, the players will be able to play in a new stadium.

Many fans are waiting for the start of the match.

We will see how the team will do. It is very important for the fans.

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Significant drop of Italian starters in Serie A evident in sub-par Azzurri

Italian players no longer feature as prominently in Serie A. While that is an obvious statement at the top of the table, it is also worryingly true when you dig deeper and look at the other sides making up the top tier of Italian football.

In an attempt to gauge how many Italians start regularly in comparison to previous great Azzurri sides, we have taken a look at the number from recent seasons and compared them to those of the season leading up to Italy’s last great success – the 2006 World Cup win in Germany.

In a press conference in the week leading up to Italy’s last UEFA Nations League matches against Poland and Portugal, Roberto Mancini spoke about how Italian players are progressively getting less playing time in Serie A, which is a factor that has expedited the failure of the Italian national team in recent years.

Mancini implied that coaches in Serie A should be giving more opportunities to Italian players in order for him to have a larger pool to choose from. The information we collected shows that the already worrying numbers from last season have gotten considerably worse in the current one.

Out of the 220 starting positions available in Serie A, only 105 of them were regularly occupied by Italian players in the 2017/18 season, which is less than 48 per cent of the total. That figure has dropped even further after the summer transfer window, with only 87 Italian players being considered as first-choice starters so far, amounting to a measly 39.55 per cent.

That statistic is even more concerning if we look at last season’s top four teams in Serie A, therefore the first sides Mancini will turn to when building his squad. The number of Italian starters in those teams has dropped from 12 to nine this season, meaning that they make up 20 per cent of the 44 possible starting roles in Serie A’s Champions League-bound teams. The number of Italian starters in those teams is very likely to drop to as little as six or seven over the course of the season, once overseas signings settle into their new squads.

The departure of Jorginho has left Napoli with only Lorenzo Insigne for Mancini to consider, while at Inter the arrivals of Sime Vrsaljko, Radja Nainggolan, Lautaro Martinez, and Keita Balde has already started to limit the amount of time Danilo D’Ambrosio, Roberto Gagliardini, and Antonio Candreva get on the pitch.

Lazio, Torino, and Udinese are the only teams in the league to have increased their number of Italian starters since last season. The Biancocelesti replaced the departing Stefan De Vrij with Francesco Acerbi, the Granata let Nicolas Burdisso’s contract expire and replaced him with Armando Izzo, while the Zebrette brought in Rolando Mandragora to replace Jakub Jankto and have put faith in Simone Scuffet so far after the departure of Albano Bizzarri.

Atalanta are renowned for giving opportunities to young Italian players, often serving as the last stepping stone before a move to one of the top Serie A clubs. Players such as Mattia Caldara, Andrea Conti, Bryan Cristante, and Gagliardini all signed with bigger clubs after successful stints with La Dea.

This year, Atalanta have replaced the departing Andrea Petagna, Caldara, and Cristante with three foreign signings: Berat Djimsiti, Mario Pasalic, and Duvan Zapata. These moves have left a lot of people shocked to find out that Andrea Masiello and Pierluigi Gollini are now the only Italian players in a full-strength Atalanta line-up.  

Sassuolo are another club that could usually be counted on to have a largely Italian squad, but this year they too could see the presence of Italian players in their line-up reduce considerably. Paolo Cannavaro, Simone Missiroli, Matteo Politano, Diego Falcinelli, and Acerbi have certainly been replaced more than adequately under a technical standpoint, with Sassuolo enjoying a brilliant start to the campaign before starting to slow down.

However, the return to the Serie A of Kevin-Prince Boateng and the introduction into the line-up of players like Rogerio and Khouma Babacar make Sassuolo a lot more diverse than we had been used to in previous seasons.

The decline in use of Italian players has affected the entire league, from top to bottom. Genoa saw four Italian starters leave in the summer for no monetary compensation whatsoever, and decided to replace them with some cheap, young, foreign signings like Krzysztof Piatek and Christian Kouame, who have greatly impressed so far.

Fiorentina dealt with the tragic loss of Davide Astori by moving the Brazilian Vitor Hugo into the starting line-up and signed the talented 19-year-old French goalkeeper Alban Lafont to replace Marco Sportiello.

The surviving teams from last season’s relegation battle all decided to invest in more foreign players to bolster their squads. Bologna went for the Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski in exchange for Antonio Mirante, as well as selecting Mitchell Dijks to replace the Watford-bound Adam Masina.

Cagliari strengthened their squad by adding experienced foreigners the likes of Darijo Srna, Ragnar Klavan, and Lucas Castro, while SPAL saw Mohamed Fares and Jasmin Kurtic replace young Italians Federico Mattiello and Alberto Grassi in the line-up in their quest for a more comfortable season.  

As expected, the newly-promoted teams have placed their trust in a lot more overseas players compared to their past season in Serie B, when 29 Italian players started for those teams in total, out of a possible 33. At the time, both Parma’s and Frosinone’s first-choice 11 were entirely made up of Italian players.

This season, Empoli, Parma, and Frosinone only have 20 Italian starters between them. Crotone, Verona, and Benevento, last season’s relegated sides, could count on a total of 24 Italian players in their first-choice line-ups in the 2017/18 campaign.

Things could not have been more different in 2006 when Serie A was considered the best league in the world, and the Italian national team was set to claim a fourth World Cup win in its glorious history.

In the 2005/06 season, 150 Italian players were starting in their respective Serie A clubs, out of a possible 220. That means that over 68 per cent of the players that were starting in the Italian top-flight were available for selection by the Italian national team boss, Marcello Lippi.

While it certainly isn’t the only reason for the dire state the Italian national team is currently in, a 28.64 per cent drop in 12 years cannot be taken lightly.

In the 2005/06 season, a total of 122 Italian players were starting in the clubs that placed outside of the top six in Serie A, out of a possible 154, equalling over 79% of the total. If we look at the Serie A clubs that finished outside of the top six in the 2017/18 campaign, we notice that only 71 Italian players currently find themselves in starting positions, making up only 46 per cent of the total. The fact that smaller clubs have started to rely so heavily on foreigners is a strong testament to the increasing globalization of football, as more clubs expand their scouting networks to previously unexplored territories, as well as the lack of production of quality players in the Italian peninsula.

Having said that, Mancini will be particularly interested in examining the best teams in the league, as they are the most likely to have players of the desired quality for the national team. Furthermore, the players in the top clubs will have experience in international competitions, which can be an invaluable asset when approaching an international tournament with the national colours.

In 2006, every member of the Italian national team at the World Cup plied their trade in Serie A, with 21 out of the 23 playing for a club that finished in the top eight in the 2005/06 season. At the time, 47 Italian players were starting for clubs in the top eight. Lippi had numerous great players to choose from and didn’t have to resort to scrapping the barrel to find anyone who could help his cause.

The only two players who played for a club outside of the top eight were third-choice goalkeeper Marco Amelia, who played for 9th placed Livorno and didn’t see any action at the World Cup, and impact-sub Vincenzo Iaquinta, who had registered an impressive 16 goals that season (including four in the Champions League, making him the highest scoring Italian in that edition of the competition).

Perhaps most significantly, the two best teams in Italy at the time, Juventus and AC Milan, each provided five players to the 2006 World Cup expedition, virtually ensuring that Lippi had a healthy pick of world-class players to choose from.  

If we look at the 23 players that Mancini had at his disposal for the defeat against Portugal on September 10, we notice how only 14 of them play for a Serie A club that finished in the top eight last season, with two players plying their trade outside of Italy. This is no coincidence, as only 22 Italian players start for clubs in last season’s top eight, which is less than half of what it was in the 2005/06 season.

Gone are the days when the national team manager could merely turn to the best few sides and immediately have a core of players for the squad. Juventus’ influence has decreased, while Napoli, Roma, Inter, and Lazio each only provided one player to Mancini’s last squad. Italian players are struggling to find a place amongst the top Serie A sides, a statement which is made even more worrying if we consider the decline of the standard in the Italian top-flight.

For the matches against Poland and Portugal, Mancini was forced to call upon several players who aren’t regular starters at their clubs, with Mattia Perin, Emerson Palmieri, Simone Zaza, Davide Zappacosta, Daniele Rugani, Mario Balotelli, Caldara, and Gagliardini all struggling for minutes so far this campaign.

If we look back at the 2006 World Cup squad, only Alessandro Del Piero, Filippo Inzaghi, and Marco Materazzi weren’t constant starters in their teams, and they were kept out of their respective line-ups by stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andriy Shevchenko, and Walter Samuel.

While Mancini’s attempt to urge Serie A managers to have more faith in Italian players is laughable to say the least, especially considering his inclination to play an all-foreigner XI in his time at Inter, he brought attention to an issue that should be cause for concern to anyone who has interest in the Italian national team’s success. While the best solution to the problem is up for debate, it’s unquestionable that significant action needs to be taken to halt the Azzurri’s decline.

Forza Italian Football

Significant drop of Italian starters in Serie A evident in sub-par Azzurri was originally published on 365 Football