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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:11:32 -0500 
From: Saverio Cittadini <sc4n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Fwd: NEVER SAY GOAL


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Subject: NEVER SAY GOAL
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As you might have noticed, I'm not posting stuff from "Mai dire gol"
regularly anymore. This is due to two different facts: one is that
I'm a little busy these days; the other is that the program has quite
changed its style, and though it might still be funny, there is much
less material that would make sense if reported here.
Therefore, I decided to post, occasionally, only those few things
that can be (IMHO) of some interest.

A few statistics, now that we are at the half of season: the following
is, up to now, the WORST LINE-UP OF THE LEAGUE:

Cervone (Roma)
Sivebaek (Pescara)
Grandini (Foggia)
Carbone (Napoli)
Fornaciari (Foggia)
Mendy (Pescara)
Mattei (Udinese)
De Vincenzo (Foggia)
Batistuta (Fiorentina)
Sliskovic (Pescara)
Pancev (Inter)

The worst of all is still the mythical Green Lizard, aka Darko Pancev.
Other players that appeared among the worst ones (and that might have
a spot on an ideal bench) are Muzzi (Roma), Casiraghi (Juventus) and
Careca (Napoli).

And here are the TOP NON-SCORERS:

Lombardo (Sampdoria)    11
Batistuta (Fiorentina)   9
Fonseca (Napoli)         8
Oliveira (Cagliari)      6

Napoli leads the team standings with 22 chances wasted, followed by
Juventus and Milan with 21; Foggia is last, with only 3.

In the last weeks the program has focused a lot on language mistakes
made by players and coaches (but journalists, too !) in the interviews,
but also on some examples of stupidity and bad education. Leaving aside
the parts with journalist, players, etc. insulting each other, here are
a few of such examples.

- They had a camera pointing at the Atalanta coach, Marcello Lippi, for
 the whole game vs. Ancona. He was caught spitting on the ground for 57
 times during the game !
- A journalist trying to find a sheltered place to interview Berti and
 Fontolan (Inter players) while some Torino fans were spitting at them
 from a balcony above.
- Asked by a journalist "How does it feel to be left out of the line-up ?",
 Gascoigne answered with a loud burp. [But I have to say that I was more
 disturbed by the stupidity of the question than by Gazza's reaction]
- Spagnulo (Genoa's goalkeeper): "I was on the opposite side of the pitch,
 but I saw quite clearly Boban hitting Panucci with his arm. As Panucci
 confirmed to me, it was a foul and it should have been a penalty kick !"
 [This is referred to the Milan-Genoa game]
 Panucci (Genoa player, in a different interview): "I'm used to tell the
 truth. It was not a foul."
 [It must be said that Panucci has already been bought by Milan for
 next season, or at least there are a lot of rumours about this]
- Italy was loudly booed and contested by the Fiorentina "ultras" in
 the game vs. Mexico, played in Florence. The main target of the boos
 was, of course, Roberto Baggio, who "betrayed" Fiorentina for their
 hated rival Juventus. But for Bruno Pizzul, TV commentator, things
 were different. After a play by R. Baggio, concluded with a shot
 that went wide, everyone could hear the boos and the insults from
 the "ultras", much louder than the clapping from the rest of the
 crowd. But Pizzul said: "And the whole stadium claps at Baggio,
 overwhelming the few boos from a small group"...

Then there were other stories of FOREIGN WONDERS, but not with
particularly exciting details. The Rumanian forward Marius Lacatus
(one year with Fiorentina), and the Brazilian midfielder Edu Marangon
(known as Edu - one year with Torino) were mentioned.


Well, this is it for this time.
    Bye,
     Saverio

e-mail: CITTADINI@SIVAX.CINECA.IT
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