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Lucchese are latest in a long line of crisis-hit Tuscan clubs (Siena, Livorno, Grosseto, Pistoiese, etc).

At some point, all these clubs have been passed to a mysterious owner who fails to stump up running costs (or simply disappears).

Tuscany has 8 senior teams (Serie A to C). That's far too few.
March 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Serie C: 25 for 2025

Last December, on Twitter, I published my 24 under-21 lower league players to watch in 2024.

Some, like Cristian Shpendi, have enjoyed a wonderful 12 months.

Others, like Marios Chrysovergis, have literally gone AWOL.
December 7, 2024 at 8:54 AM
You can tell a man's significance to a city when his life (and death) spawns a literary genre.

Iacovone's death has already served as the backdrop to Cosimo Argentino's Cuore di Cuoio, by my reckoning one of the greatest novels of post-Tangentopoli Italy.
"Il volo dell'angelo", primo libro di Camarda: «Racconto Iacovone e la vita che non visse»
Volare era nei suoi talenti. Riusciva ad alzarsi in volo più di tutti nell'area di rigore, prendere il pallone e di testa mandarlo in rete. Così in campo, quel ragazzo silenzioso...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Italian Coastal League 2024/25

Imagine an Italy without electricity, gas or petrol (or steam?)

...where the only viable way to get 11 players from one city to another was by boat.

Well here's your top flight.
December 4, 2024 at 7:48 AM
If Dundee were Akragas: An alternate football universe

What if Serie A's clubs had sprung up not in Italy, but in Scotland?

Here's a slow thread on how Italian calcio might be understood within a Caledonian context.

This thread could be a bombscare...
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Messina was originally called "Zancle" (Siculian for "sickle"), so named by colonising pirates due to the shape of its harbour.

It was later re-christened "Messene" by Anaxilaus, tyrant of Reggio, who hailed from the Greek region of Messenia (adding an extra edge to the Messina-Reggina derby 😉).
November 15, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The word Avellino comes from the proto-Indo-European word for "apple" (abel).

In Roman times, it was called Abellinum - but it was 4km away from its current location.

Conversely, the nearby town of "Avella" is believed to come from the Latin for "hazelnut" (as in the Spanish "avellana").
November 14, 2024 at 4:03 PM
The city of Benevento used to be called "Maleventum" until the Romans realised the name probably didn't bode well for the town.

The Romans had misconceived the town's original name of "Maloenton" (probably indicating sheep-farming activity) as meaning "malum eventum" (ill-occurrence).
November 13, 2024 at 9:21 AM