Dear friends of Italian me and passion for soccer, maybe you enrolled in the Italian language for art history course and most likely you do not care of the soccer world, I recommend you however, to study the concluding part of yesterday’s article (language of Dante and passion for soccer).

PLAYERS TO KNOW: for true soccer fans all players are important and beloved even for those who, like me, are not particularly informed, or updated or iterested. The soccer knowledge is restricted to the most famous ones “You can’t not know”

Paolo Rossi, he scored the winning goal at the World Cup in Spain in 1982.
Roberto Baggio missed the penalty in the World Cup final in the United States in 1994.
Paolo Maldini, longtime captain of the Italian national team, good player and even handsome …
Giovanni Trapattoni, the coach of the Italian national team and from the Beyern who spoke at a press conference in a hilarious German and that before the matches, sprayed  blessed water on the playing field.
Pierluigi Buffon, goalkeeper for the past 5 world national.
Francesco Totti, “er pupone”, AC Roma team player, famous for soccer and for being target of many jokes.
Mario Balotelli, the player with the most-watched private life of soccer life by the Italian newspapers.

Unfortunately my list is narrowed to this handful of names, I do not know what real fans think, but I would say that with this minimal knowledge of the Italian soccer, you can be pretty quiet. I’m forgetting!

Offside: the player passes the ball to an attacker when it is beyond the defense.
Net: Gol! Goal! Tor! But! Golo!
Penalty kick: it is a direct free kick at 11 meters away from the door. It is usually assigned by the referee against the offending team, in his own penalty area and the ball in play, misconduct; the most frequent fouls are caused for a violent game against an opponent or hand ball.
Sold referee: typical offense against the referee by which is meant that the referee is not objective because economically corrupted by one of the two teams.

Ciao Ciao!