Anyone else here of Italian heritage/support Italy? I will be supporting them as my second team after New Zealand, of course.
Forza Italia!
Forza Italia!
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Cue newzealandpower...
I do normally support Italy, particularly last world cup. A friends father passed away before it and he was a passionate Italian football fan, so it felt like a fitting tribute.
I do normally support Italy, particularly last world cup. A friends father passed away before it and he was a passionate Italian football fan, so it felt like a fitting tribute.
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Hate Italy from the depths of my soul.
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
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Hate Italy from the depths of my soul.
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
And HN, that seems like an appropriate thing to do. My mother's side is Italian and love football whereas my father's side of the family like rugby, so naturally from a rather young age I took on Italy as a team to support.
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Nothing personal Torne - I'm just full of prejudice.
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'If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague'
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I backed France last time and I will never forgive that Italian defender for his cunning plan to give Zidane a brain explosion. But I won't back France this time since they'll have to go through beloved Ireland to get there.
As I've said before, I hope we are in Italy's group, because I want to do a North Korea '66 against them.
As I've said before, I hope we are in Italy's group, because I want to do a North Korea '66 against them.
Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads
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[QUOTE=el grapadura]Hate Italy from the depths of my soul.
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Purely out of interest; why?
El-Kun2009-11-18 14:26:19
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Style of football historically, arrogance, other historical reasons, and everything seems to be broken in their bloody country and they just don't give a toss even after you'd been asking them nicely and politely to fix it for 3 days.
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Predicting a eaarly exit and italy to go onto a massive uproar
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Style of football historically, arrogance, other historical reasons, and everything seems to be broken in their bloody country and they just don't give a toss even after you'd been asking them nicely and politely to fix it for 3 days.
Ahkay, fair enough. Fascists in the war too!!
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Style of football historically, arrogance, other historical reasons, and everything seems to be broken in their bloody country and they just don't give a toss even after you'd been asking them nicely and politely to fix it for 3 days.
+1, I hate Germany for similar reasons as well. You know we belong together...
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The significant difference being that everything works perfectly fine in Germany.
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yea, on the other hand Germany have Michael Ballack and Shweinsteiger... god I hate those two.
You know we belong together...
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Yeah, I can't stand the sight of Ballack.
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As I've said before, I hope we are in Italy's group, because I want to do a North South Korea '66 2002 against them.[/QUOTE]
Nz Seb2009-11-18 22:08:38
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Hate Italy from the depths of my soul.
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
Hope they're out in the first round, with 0 points and 0 goals scored.
Probably my last contribution to this thread...
I completely agree with you about Italy, can't stand them. Seems like you have a good taste/hate in teams, hating England also. I trust you loathe Portugal.
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cant stand italy
never giving zola the chances he deserved at the international level
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Yeah, I can't stand the sight of Ballack.
Is right.
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� I trust you loathe Portugal.
How did you guess?
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I knew it would be too much to ask for a POSITIVE thread. 
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I trust you loathe Portugal.
How did you guess?
You know we belong together...
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We now have 5 supporters of Italy on these forums:
Torne
HardNews(Partial)
Ballane
Ballane Junior
NewZealandPower
Anyone else going to join the ranks or is it all going to be negativity?
Torne2009-11-22 21:23:58
Torne
HardNews(Partial)
Ballane
Ballane Junior
NewZealandPower
Anyone else going to join the ranks or is it all going to be negativity?
Torne2009-11-22 21:23:58
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You're not getting any love from me. 
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Nor me.
You know we belong together...
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Except hopefully Aquilani is incredible for Liverpool and can play for Italy...!
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So far we have 2 supporters of Italy on these forums:
Torne
HardNews(Partial)
Anyone else going to join the ranks or is it all going to be negativity?
+1 =3 +son =4 by way of heritage.Torne
HardNews(Partial)
Anyone else going to join the ranks or is it all going to be negativity?
GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS
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here I am. I just wanted to give it a few days and see what people would say. And I'm glad to see that opinions from both sides have been voiced. I must say that I will support Italy, of course, but I'm actually not sure if I'd prefer Italy to win the cup or NZ to win a game/make it to the second round. Both results would be out of this world to me!
In all honesty I think there's a chance that El Grapa was actually right. Lippi decided to leave the NT team on a high after winning the Cup and Donadoni managed to undo all the hard work the man from Tuscany had done during his previous time. Now Lippi is back and I can't help but feeling that Italy lack the man power to do any good on the world stage. They're 2 years behind all the other teams as far as preparation goes. They're thinking about bringing back Totti [my life hero, my idol, my God], but I almost think that we shouldn't. Apart from Buffon, I wouldn't want to see Cannavaro, Del Piero, Camoranesi, Grosso, Gattuso, Zambrotta..yet they're all there.
It ain't good enough.
The one good thing Italy have is that they almost always perform in competitions like the World Cup..and for they have the power of turning every game to their advantage. This being said, I think it's a miracle if we make it past the group stage.
MARK ME WORDS.
VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life
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Italy have basically booked into the next round after the draw. Hopefully that will work in our favour. . . .
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We have New Zealand in our group guys. I'm afraid to say that there may be a struggle to make it to the second round!
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yeah looks like Italy and Paraguay should go through. Perhaps NZ to get a point or three vs Slovakia? Or even Paraguay? I'm really not sure eh. All I know is that it's not that difficult a group and who knows, if NZ beat Slovakia they could even make it...
VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life
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I kept thinking it was Uruguay we had in the group but no... Paraguay.
I am an Italian supporter usually first and foremost but I will support NZ as far as they go and then jump on the Italian bandwagon. I'll support both, just a shame they are in the same group!
Have captains and squads been named for next year yet or is it a bit early?
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I've got Italian ancestry so I'll be rooting for them amongst others
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