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A billionaire cable TV empire owner does not own a yacht, private jet and mansion on a beach, instead he shelled out $170 million to buy an Italian pro soccer team. Rocco Commisso, 73, bought ACF Fiorentina in Florence three years ago. His wife told him that if he insisted on buying a team, it needed to be somewhere nice. The price tag was also a b...

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At Rome City Institute, the strength between Italian and American culture is ever growing. While Rome City has students from all over the world with different backgrounds, it’s not surprising to find many student-athletes who arrive in Rome hold pre-existing Italian American roots. An example of this, lies in Rome City’s second year student-athlete...

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Sometime in the early 1980s, a boy named Christian Lattanzio approached a hero named Carlo Ancelotti. The boy wore an excited, 10-year-old smile. He was with a bunch of his excitable, 10-year-old friends. Lattanzio was probably walking home from the football pitch at his local church, San Camillo de Lellis. He’d often play there from school dismiss...

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Join the Bay Area Italian community at the Quakes Italian Heritage Night! Come unite as the local Italian community and cheer on the Quakes as they take on Toronto FC on March 25th at 7:30PM at PayPal Park. $10 of each ticket benefits Little Italy San Jose. Buy tickets here. Local Italian Community Partners: Italian Heritage Celebration, Italian Co...

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Lorenzo Boselli will never forget being first in line to kick in the penalty shootout for Syracuse University at the NCAA men’s soccer Division I national championship game in December. Boselli, a midfielder, had played the first 90 minutes but sat out the extra time. It was a cold winter day, his body was cooling down and the opposing team, Indian...

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The reigning champions, the Los Angeles Football Club, faced Portland Timbers to start the 2023 Major League Soccer season after the week 1 matchup against the LA Galaxy was postponed last week due to the severe weather conditions. Prior to the game against the Timbers, the Black & Gold received their 2022 MLS Cup championship rings in a special pr...

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Giorgio Chiellini is having the time of his life. Twenty-three years into a professional soccer career that has seen Chiellini play in two World Cups, win an Olympic bronze medal, captain Italy to a European Championship and capture nine Serie A titles with Juventus, Chiellini still embraces every game and training session like it’s his first. “He'...

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Union Omaha announced today the signing of defender Marco Milanese, pending league and federation approval. Milanese reunites with assistant coach Kevin Nuss, who he played under in his time with the USL League Two side Ocean City Nor'easters. The Isernia, Italy native has spent time with multiple landmark Italian clubs, including S.S.C. Napoli U-1...

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We're sure you were as disappointed as us when Italy failed to qualify for the last men's World Cup. The gracious winners of Euro 2020 couldn't quite muster enough gusto to make the final 32, and despite the lashings of schadenfreude, a World Cup without Italy always feels a little wrong.  The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) didn't waste any tim...

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Gianluca Vialli has died at the age of 58, five years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A footballer, coach, sports commentator and sports executive, Vialli was one of the soccer icons of the 1980s and 1990s in Italy. He made history with Sampdoria, paired with Roberto Mancini-the two were nicknamed the "goal twins"-who many years later...

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