FC Messina Peloro é morte
By: Steven | July 14th, 2008It’s been bound to happen for a couple of years now, but it seems like next season Italian football might lose one of it’s Sicilian teams. FC Messina have failed to find a new owner (nobody wanted to cough up about 4.5 million euro), and the club has gone bankrupt. This means Messina will go to Serie C, and Avellino will return to B. But, and here’s the terrible part: if the license isn’t bought by the end of july, FC Messina will be wiped of the calcio-map, maybe for good. The club already went through something similar in the early 90’s, but a new recovery is unrealistic. Good luck to all the Messina-fans, I sure hope the team keeps existing.
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Palermo is my heart and blood, but to see Napoli succeed still gives me a little pride…
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All unite on the Southern Front!
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And goddamn, this thing keeps telling I’m posting from the US, and i’m not!
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And yes, three comments in a row: look at our fat Brazilian!
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/EMP-6135277.jpg
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Standing up to the cat like skills and reflexes of Schumi. Is there anything that Schumacher can’t do?
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even though I’m 100% rosanero I also like seeing Napoli succeed. Just not against my team. Nonetheless Forza Palermo!!!!!!
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there is a growing base of strong southern teams. Palermo and Napoli are powerful and on the rise and nobody can deny that. Catania and Lecce need to stay in Serie A while Bari can become similiar to these 2. Reggina and Messina were always just fodder, sad to see either of them go but it was in a way ineveitable, as is the demise of Cagliari this year.
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You guys are forgetting the biggest Southern team. La Juve.
If Ursus is around, maybe he knows why Juve is so huge down south, as opposed to Inter/Milan/Roma. I know we had some big winning periods a while ago, but so did Milan/Inter back in the day. Gotta be something else.Colin, Bari is a very strong candidate for promotion this year, but I don’t know it’s going to happen. We have a great team but the management is not well liked and they are trying to sell the club, so the instability might screw us. Had we not hired Giuseppe fucking Materazzi as our coach last season, we could have made it this year, Antonio Conte is so much better. It hurts to see Lecce go up instead of us.
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Well i like Lecce and Bari both Alessio and I was bothing you both could come up this year, but I am confident Bari will book there passage next season. With the instability and poor management, can you think of a better team in Serie B? there are some close candidates but i don’t think you will screw it up, or at least I hope you don’t.
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Alessio how many teams do u root for? I guess which ever is good?
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alessio is cool, don’t rag on him, specially since that argument don’t work if he is a bari fan.
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Cant forget about Salernitana. Whatch out they have a young striker named Di Napoli who led the Serie C1 in scoring. Now they are in Serie B Coming for the Serie A. The notable player who played there early games with Saleritana- Gennaro Gattuso. Who has promised to return to his home town team. Anyways look out. I am a Napoli fan cause i don’t get to whatch Salerno. I know they are huge rivals but I still cheer for both of them. There rivalry is just like the Sicilian Derby or The Derby of the Sun. Just like in the Sicilian Derby people die everytime they play. Never been so scared in my life, after that game.
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But he is a Juve fan so it does work
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Dude i think Di Napoli is like 34 yrs old
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shit you are right. I saw his old ass in the disco tech this past may when i was with my cousins. Old ass! He is still good though. Cant deny it. Plus Salerno has a pretty big Stadium so they should bring in some good revenue this year. Sonofabitch was in the VIP trying to talk to my 21 year old cousin. lol! Well he keeps scoring it is allowed. Thanks Giro I guess he just plays like he is a youngster.
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He played with both Palermo and Messina
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he has played everywhere
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were closing in on abate it seems, would be great.
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I can tell you why Juve is popular in the south.
Juve used to buy all their young talent from southern teams (big fish in a Serie B pool) and a lot of fans just continued to root for their heroes that made the trip north. The Northern teams (From Roma up) would have their own youth teams, buy from other Serie A clubs (which are mostly in the northern half) or buy foreigners.
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I wonder if it has to do with people going to work in Turin as well.
Giro, I root for two. Bari and Juventus.
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i always thought juve was so popular in the south because of the southern workers going to torino for fiat and such, though i could be mistaken.
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All of those factors contribute to the phenomenon. MAD’s theory is probably most valid for the 80s and 90s, and Colin’s and alessio’s for the 50s and 60s.
There is also an anti-Milano money and power element to it. People who had moved north in order to find work and found themselves being discriminated against in all aspects of daily life because of their origins found it very hard to support either of the two Milano teams (for the context in which this happened, you should watch Rocco and his Three Brothers, which has nothing to do with football, but is a great film). Juve were the only alternative among the big three. For Southerners who had to leave Italy to find work, it was helpful for them to “find” a club whose results they could actually follow and which their fellow workers in Wolfsburg or Clermont-Ferrand had actually heard of. Juve fulfilled both criteria.
The extremely strong sense of local identity that one still has in the South has always made it difficult for a “Southern SuperClub” to arise. Napoli have come closest, but the vast majority of Avellinese would still rather cut their hands off than support anything from Napoli, and that dynamic is replayed throughout the region (Palermo-Catania, Bari-Lecce, Napoli-Salernitana, etc).
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I am one of the people that’s happy to see Salernitana return to the cadetti. Last year, they had more spectators than 20 of the teams in Serie B. They really can be an asset to Serie A.
And don’t get me wrong, I like seeing Cittadella in B, but come on, 1000 visitors average? What are they? Chievo II?
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Not far off the mark, Cittadella are funded by a local industrialist and are essentially the second club in the one club town that is Padova, but to be fair to them the town of Cittadella has more of a unique identity than the district of Chievo.
Another possible comparison is Albinoleffe, though Cittadella aren’t the result of a merger.
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Salernitana can only help Calcio in Italy. I am just dreaming for those derby matches vs Napoli. It is great for southern people, as long as they stay out of to much trouble.
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