Football
The Italian National Football team rarely plays at the stadium. On December 4, 1982 they tied Romania, 0-0, in a qualifying match for Euro 1984. The national team played only one game there between 1982 and 2006; they won a friendly against Mexico, 2-0, on January 20, 1993. On March 1, 2006, they played a friendly against Germany and won 4-1. In May 2008 they played a friendly against Belgium and won 3-1. On September 7, 2010, they defeated the Faroe Islands 5-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifying match, where Fabio Quagliarella was booed when he scored because Quagliarella plays for Juventus, the rival of Fiorentina.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)