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Federico Pasquali

Federico was born in Rome. Sociologist, communication expert, assistant professor at La Sapienza University, writer and sports journalist. He loves sport, good books, food, wine and Italy.

Since the arrival of the new millennium, Italian swimming has exploded at the world level. Throughout the last century, Italy had never achieved great results in international competitions, or at least only on a few occasions. Since the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Italian swimmers have been winning relentlessly, and legendary champions such as Massi...

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On September 11th, Nicola Pietrangeli, the strongest tennis player Italy has ever had, turned 90 years old. To this day Pietrangeli still represents a true tennis icon both for his Slam victories and for his lifestyle envied by all tennis players around the world. He spoke five languages, traveled the world far and wide, practiced different profess...

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Almost one hundred years after the first edition was played Worcester CC, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Ryder Cup will arrive for the first time in Italy, where golf is not among the most popular sports but since the beginning of the new millennium has won thousands of new fans. Waiting for the two selections from the United States and Europe will...

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In the history of sports, there are many families who have managed to win from generation to generation. And there are also brothers, sisters, cousins who have won in the same sport or in different sports. But in the 1980s there were three brothers who still have no equal in the world for what they won. This is the story of the Abbagnale brothers,...

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Ninety years ago there was an Italian boxer who in the United States, which had become his second homeland, won a match against an opponent from Boston, becoming thanks to that victory a legend of Italian sports. That knockout not only won him a world title, but made him a symbol of redemption for the Italians who had emigrated from the many rural...

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If soccer is almost a religion for nearly all Italians, there is one city where from the time you are born your parents teach you to pray under a blue altar, almost always with the image of their messiah who in the 1980s arrived from Argentina, a land where millions of Italians live. The messiah's name was Diego Armando Maradona, venerated in every...

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One hundred years ago, a sports legend was born in Rome. He still holds a number of records that are impossible to equal, together with his brother. It was March 4, 1923, and in a hospital in Italy's capital city, Piero D'Inzeo, the greatest horseman in Italian history, was born along with his younger brother Raimondo, who was born two years after...

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The fastest man in the world for the past two years is the Italian, American-born, Marcell Jacobs. The lightning bolt born in El Paso, Texas, to an American father and an Italian mother, has won everything in recent years except the world outdoor title. Olympic champion in Tokyo in the 100 meters and in the 4x100 relay, world indoor champion, Europ...

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Sometimes in sports there are natural talents, those who become so after years of training, and the predestined. On July 14, 1990, a predestined was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Federica Brignone, who scored a unique victory in the history of Italian alpine skiing this February. Federica, was born practically with skis on her feet because her da...

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Italians' passion for bicycles has ancient roots. Everyone as a kid dreamed of having a bicycle at least until the 1990s, but even today millions of Italians have a bicycle and use it, some for work, some for sport and, of course, to dream of one day becoming a great champion. In the field of competitive cycling, few nations in the world have a lon...

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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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Italy has always been a nation with a great passion for sports. Even in the days of the ancient Romans, sports games, taken from those of the Greek tradition, generated interest among the people, and the emperors of the time used them to distract citizens and entertain them. Since the early 1900s, then, sports have always been the focus of Italia...

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