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 the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)