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There are more important than football

of AltraVita · Sunday 15 April 2012 · No 3 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Yesterday afternoon I spent half an hour the strangest thing in a football stadium. In the car with friends, on the rain-shrouded highway towards San Siro, we heard the radio broadcast of the games of the series B. In a busy switching between the Stadium of Pescara and the studio of the RAI, the other games of the second division occurred in the [.. .]

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Risks and side effects: The Hool next door

of AltraVita · Monday 12 March 2012 · 9 2 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Yesterday, Andrei Reisin wrote a remarkable article on the consequences of repression in the Publikative, which I hereby put you to the heart wants "ultras: Who is playing with fire." Please read the article, as in the following knitted together with a hot needle lines I am referring to. Reisin there makes some very interesting observations, especially [...]

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Predictor Serie A 2011/12

of AltraVita · Monday 22 August 2011 · No 0 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed readers of my little web brochure 2011/2012 season of Italian Serie A will begin soon, finally, are football-free weekend and just end such senseless transfer market, discussions of the past and we can look back sweaty men in the running to and fro and we make it to the monkey. And because the monkeys to make [...]

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Age before beauty

of AltraVita · Monday 26 April 2010 · 25 1 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Saturday night, the AC Milan played in Palermo and came with an announcement to the dogs - in consideration of the shape curve is the result of both teams was about as surprising as the fact that it is colder in winter than in most other seasons. Partially responsible was the injury crisis and jaundice of the Rossoneri, a total of 11 failures in the [...]

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Italy in slow motion

of AltraVita · Friday 26 February 2010 · 20 3 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

In Italy, a football game does not stop after 90 minutes. Because then begins the slow motion. In the press conference after the historic victory of his FC Internazionale against Chelsea in the self-proclaimed Star coach José Mourinho's opinion on a possible penalty for the (from the game against Bayern Munich still waidwunde) Fiorentina beat AC Milan in the early evening to catch up game of [...]

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Inter Milan to -3

of AltraVita · Friday 22 January 2010 · 6 0 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

On Sunday in Milan's San Siro stadium held a derby. How does virtually every year since 1908, the stadium will be sold out, sports bars and sofas will be crowded, makes 1-2 weeks before the Derby-wide climate in the city and the clear space free for journalists platitudes and tea leaves. So far so normal, it's [...]

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Juventus and AS Roma closed curve

of AltraVita · Friday 15 January 2010 · 9 1 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

On 23 January is the game taking place Juventus against AS Roma. Because the Juve fans have noticed in the past by racist chants against Inter player Mario Balotelli were, there is now renewed after incidents at cup match against Napoli on Wednesday evening to a penalty by the disciplinary procedures. Be threatened and executed. Racism and ignorance are always [...]

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Atalanta - AC Milan 1:1

of AltraVita · Sunday, 4 October 2009 · No 0 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Better if I had not merely summarized's also can: Addendum: Even more beautiful but the post - or better: the contributions - from both the confusing notion Alessandro Nestas to the bottom club in Bergamo. Even coach Leonardo had indeed lost his voice and leave the empty balloon release at the press conference his vice Mauro Tassotti, the [...]

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Look hard men in violet

of AltraVita · Thursday 20 August 2009 · 4 1 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

On the weekend finally starts the Serie A and much has not changed the previous year. Series champions Inter will end up back onto the Scudetto sew jersey can be 8 teams behind them scramble for the crumbs. The red wine from Toro are replaced with the red wine from Livorno, instead of being allowed to Lecce Pugliesen from the [...]

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Mourinho and Galliani on the state of the Series A

of AltraVita · Wednesday 19 November 2008 · 8 1 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

Inter coach José Mourinho expressed himself with the statement that the Italian football has lost prestige internationally and has outside of the boot in recent years lost much of its significance. The Spanish league, the Premier, and even the German Bundesliga would get far more attention internationally (ie TV time) and the Italian's favorite competition. We must [...]

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