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:
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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)
“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)