"It's not absence, it's Resistance. Happy April 25th!"
🇮🇹 The banner of the fans of La Resistente Genova, an Italian community football club, during last Saturday's match: the Resistente fans were not at the stadium because they were engaged in an anti-fascist demonstration.
Uomo di 65 anni che da tempo insulta i vicini perché odia arabi e neri. Ha smantellato una panchina perché non li voleva vedere seduti lì, ha costretto una siriana a trasferirsi perché la insultava ogni volta che usciva e indossavs il velo. Un giorno prende il fucile, va dove giocano dei bambini
🇮🇹 According to Italian newspaper Domani, Minister of Transport and League leader Matteo #Salvini has included the renewal of his Sky Sport subscription to watch football matches in his ministerial expenses: the sum is said to be €1,880.
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🏳️🌈 Yesterday, Alessandria (Italian 5th division) took to the field wearing a special jersey, which featured a rainbow symbol on the chest in support of the LGBTQIA+ community and an invitation to the sixth edition of Pride in the Piedmontese city.
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Oh meno male che ha riportato il pescione in riva per sciacquarlo.
TEMEVO LO FRIGGESSERO CON QUALCHE GRANELLO DI TERRA.
Vedremo quanto avranno sentito gli ispettori, stiamo ancora aspettando le sanzioni al Parma dopo gli insulti razzisti a McKennie della prima giornata di campionato
🇮🇹 Racist whistles and chants were reported today in Serie A, by Hellas Verona fans against AC Milan's Rafael Leão and Mike Maignan.
Hellas Verona ultras are well-known for their racist and neo-nazi behavior.
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🇧🇷 It is remembered as the "red match": a 1945 São Paulo derby between Corinthians and Palmeiras, to raise funds for the Brazilian Communist Party.
Read the story on Pallonate in Faccia (in Italian).
pallonateinfaccia.com/2026/04/19/c...
Giocatore meraviglioso della mia adolescenza, una macchina da canestri ineguagliabile. Lui, Gentile e Drazen Petrovic diedero vita ad una finale di Coppa Coppe scolpita nella leggenda.
🇪🇸 On Thursday, during the away match in Athens against AEK in the Conference League, Rayo Vallecano fans displayed banners with the faces of Pavlos Fyssas and Alexis Grigoropoulos, two recent symbols of the anti-fascist movements in Greece.
#antifascism
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Arrivederci campione
🇸🇦 Al Hilal (the club managed by Simone Inzaghi) was sold yesterday by PIF to Alwaleed bin Talal, the richest man in the Arab world: his takeover had already been anticipated in January in my newsletter THE BEAUTIFUL SHAME.
You can learn more here: pallonateinfaccia.substack.com/p/al-hilal-n...
Ma cosAHAHAH
🇮🇹 Italian football needs to change. We need to do what they did in Germany/France/Spain. Yes, but what did they actually do?
It might take you all weekend to read this, but here's an attempt to answer this question. Mine on @ilpost.it (in Italian).
www.ilpost.it/2026/04/17/a...
possiamo tutti dire "sunto" anzichè "recàp"?
sempre cinque lettere sono.
POSSIAMO?
alttrimenti chiudo lo stretto di gibilterra.
grazie.
🇩🇿 April 15, 1956: 70 years ago, the #Algeria national football team was officially formed to promote the country's independence through sport, in the midst of the war of liberation from France.
You can listen to the story in this podcast (in Italian) 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/5PiL...
Ma nettamente più stupido (incredibile a dirsi)
"Win the Cup for Aitor Zabaleta"
Yesterday, during the match against Real Sociedad, Deportivo Alavés ultras remembered the Real Sociedad fan killed in 1998 by Atlético Madrid ultras. On April 18, Atlético and Real will play the Copa del Rey final.
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Eccometisbagli
(Senza parole)
🇮🇹 A couple of #Palestine flags among the Pisa fans, during yesterday's match against Torino in Serie A: Pisa fans have historically been close to the Palestinian cause.
🇧🇪 A #Palestine flag among the Union Saint-Gilloise fans, yesterday against Sint-Truiden in the Belgian 1st division.
🇮🇹 Italian football doesn't seem to have any prospects for its future: a symptom of an old and confused ruling class, in an increasingly old and confused country.
pallonateinfaccia.com/2026/04/05/c...
That's maybe the key point of this World Cup, from an historical perspective: in 94 years, the WC has been a tool for authoritarian regimes to show a positive face to the rest of the world. Now, the US is telling all of us: "We don't want want you, we don't need you".
"It can be solved, but there's no financial incentive to interrupt a match. #Racism can be eradicated, but there aren't people willing to pay the price."
🇪🇸 Íñigo Pérez, Rayo Vallecano coach, at a press conference yesterday.
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🇨🇱 Guillermo Maripán, Chilean and Torino defender, has admitted being guilty of revenge porn: before the judges, he confessed to having shared intimate photos of his ex-partner (influencer Carmen Castillo) without her consent.
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