Beppe Severgnini
Beppe Severgnini
Giuseppe Severgnini, OBE, known as Beppe Severgnini, is an Italian journalist, essayist and columnist...
culture national soccer
Soccer is more than a national sport. It's a national narrative.
culture employing factory hollywood italy monday national owner remotely soccer talk terms
If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.
cities linked
So much (of soccer) is linked with cities and towns. We don't see franchises, as you do, that go from one place to another.
football irrational passions political
Political passions have become as irrational as those of football fans.