Like Ferrari (also in the Agnelli stable), or Gucci, or a brilliant [Italian] corner café, Juventus is aiming for something very difficult: to be a pocket of excellence in a decaying country.
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When the football fan dies, he goes to Italy, where he finds the best players in the world, matches shown in full on public TV, and numerous daily sports newspapers. Nice weather, too.
[...] But Italian football isn't beautiful any more. As with many things in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi must take some blame. When he was prime minister, Italy became a country where Berlusconi voters and Berlusconi haters watched Berlusconi's team Milan thump teams subsidised by Berlusconi's government on Berlusconi's pay channels, in a league run by Berlusconi's right-hand man Adriano Galliani, and then watched the highlights on Berlusconi's free channel. The only thing Berlusconi didn't do was carry out his government's laws for making stadiums safer.
El fútbol es un juego pero también un fenómeno social. Cuando a miles de millones de personas les importa un juego, éste deja de ser simplemente un juego.
Creo que con Maradona es más fuerte. Messi es el mejor de la historia, pero aunque Maradona no jugaba bien todas las semanas, hay una poesía alrededor de él que Messi no tiene. Y hay una historia entre Maradona e Inglaterra que no existe con Messi.
Origine: Dalla trasmissione 90 minuti con... #AgnelliRisponde (min. 0:55:24), SKY Sport; citato in Simone Ziggiotto, Sky Sport, 90 minuti con Andrea Agnelli http://www.movietele.it/post/sky-sport-90-minuti-con-andrea-agnelli, Movietele.it, 31 maggio 2016. Video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dqmzo_agnelli-3_sport disponibile su DailyMotion.com (sottititoli da min. 01:50).