Euro: Round of 16 - Switzerland v. Italy - June 29

[Juve]

lol at that Italy FK



Bro let people have fun

I should have ran them over for how embarrassing it is

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Did some Italian guy take your girl?

I have no problem with Italians. In fact I've always gotten along well with actual Italians and was happy for them both in 2006 and 2021. I'm joking about bozos in North America and their strategically deployed nationalism for a country they have at best maybe seen once or twice in their lives.

 

[Juve]

I have no problem with Italians. In fact I've always gotten along well with actual Italians and was happy for them both in 2006 and 2021. I'm joking about bozos in North America and their strategically deployed nationalism for a country they have at best maybe seen once or twice in their lives.

Like my moron brother who never watched a soccer game in his life who is right now screaming his brains like a four year old? Is that what you're referring to?

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I have no problem with Italians. In fact I've always gotten along well with actual Italians and was happy for them both in 2006 and 2021. I'm joking about bozos in North America and their strategically deployed nationalism for a country they have at best maybe seen once or twice in their lives.

I don't get this. So people can't celebrate their origins - and if your origin can at least be a sports team to cheer for, what's the issue there? - because they haven't gone to Italy enough according to you?

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Italy have given up. Boring shit.

Really hope the Germany-Denmark delivers some fun.

 

[Blender]

Italy is really deploying a truly inspired tactic today of letting Swiss attackers cut into the middle and take shots unopposed.

 

[robertmac43]

Italy is lacking a lot of things with this team... Creativity is one of them.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I don't get this. So people can't celebrate their origins - and if your origin can at least be a sports team to cheer for, what's the issue there? - because they haven't gone to Italy enough according to you?

Football is only for them everyone else is a fair weather fan…

Italy is lacking a lot of things with this team... Creativity is one of them.

It’s a bold strategy cotton

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

I don't get this. So people can't celebrate their origins - and if your origin can at least be a sports team to cheer for, what's the issue there? - because they haven't gone to Italy enough according to you?

Eh in the big scheme of things I don't care all that much, but enough to mock them a little. If you don't think a bunch of Americans riding around in a convertible waving flags celebrating a result of a country they're not from in a sport they don't understand, is at least a bit funny and deserving of a little stick if it backfires, then I don't know man.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Hahaha that bicycle kick attempt

 

[al secord]

That was a bicycle kick that I would have been proud of

 

[2CHAINZ]

I have no problem with Italians. In fact I've always gotten along well with actual Italians and was happy for them both in 2006 and 2021. I'm joking about bozos in North America and their strategically deployed nationalism for a country they have at best maybe seen once or twice in their lives.

Ok so you are butt hurt that you aren't Italian and jealous you can't cheer for the best country in the world.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Eh in the big scheme of things I don't care all that much, but enough to mock them a little. If you don't think a bunch of Americans riding around in a convertible waving flags celebrating a result of a country they're not from in a sport they don't understand, is at least a bit funny and deserving of a little stick if it backfires, then I don't know man.

Yeah, I guess when you put it that way, I kinda sorta get it, but at the end of the day I get folks (who have largely kept their Italian culture going even in NA) having fun with sports. Seems like overthinking.

I have a colleague who's Italian-Canadian and she was sharing videos on Slack of her celebrating in her Italian neighborhood in Montreal with a bunch of people, old, young, toddlers, etc. I highly doubt she could name many players on that squad or that she's ever watched a Serie A game nor do I know how many times she's been to Italy but it would feel shitty (and wrong) to me to say that she's a) not Italian b) not have fun watching soccer because she's a Montrealer.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Ok so you are butt hurt that you aren't Italian and jealous you can't cheer for the best country in the world.

I could cheer for them if I wanted to, in fact I'd rather they won this match to be entirely honest. In fact, I'd be cheering for them all the way to the Final. The problem is that they're a terrible team and embarrassing the colors they wear.

 

[Juve]

Standing ovation, our first shot on net!

Yeah, I guess when you put it that way, I kinda sorta get it, but at the end of the day I get folks (who have largely kept their Italian culture going even in NA) having fun with sports. Seems like overthinking.

I have a colleague who's Italian-Canadian and she was sharing videos on Slack of her celebrating in her Italian neighborhood in Montreal with a bunch of people, old, young, toddlers, etc. I highly doubt she could name many players on that squad or that she's ever watched a Serie A game nor do I know how many times she's been to Italy but it would feel shitty (and wrong) to me to say that she's a) not Italian b) not have fun watching soccer because she's a Montrealer.

By any chance, do you work a shipping company? That sounds like my cousin

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Standing ovation, our first shot on net!


By any chance, do you work a shipping company? That sounds like my cousin

No I work for a tech/travel company

 

[PanniniClaus]

Odd reaction from Embolo

 

[2CHAINZ]

Yeah, I guess when you put it that way, I kinda sorta get it, but at the end of the day I get folks (who have largely kept their Italian culture going even in NA) having fun with sports. Seems like overthinking.

I have a colleague who's Italian-Canadian and she was sharing videos on Slack of her celebrating in her Italian neighborhood in Montreal with a bunch of people, old, young, toddlers, etc. I highly doubt she could name many players on that squad or that she's ever watched a Serie A game nor do I know how many times she's been to Italy but it would feel shitty (and wrong) to me to say that she's a) not Italian b) not have fun watching soccer because she's a Montrealer.

There are only two types of people in this world. Italians, and those who want to be Italian.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Yeah, I guess when you put it that way, I kinda sorta get it, but at the end of the day I get folks (who have largely kept their Italian culture going even in NA) having fun with sports. Seems like overthinking.

I have a colleague who's Italian-Canadian and she was sharing videos on Slack of her celebrating in her Italian neighborhood in Montreal with a bunch of people, old, young, toddlers, etc. I highly doubt she could name many players on that squad or that she's ever watched a Serie A game nor do I know how many times she's been to Italy but it would feel shitty (and wrong) to me to say that she's a) not Italian b) not have fun watching soccer because she's a Montrealer.

Well she ain't Italian just like Johnny O'Brien from Boston isn't Irish and Joe Olson from Minnesota isn't Swedish. You go to those countries and you're American to people, not less, not more.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

delete

 

[2CHAINZ]

No I work for a tech/travel company

It must be my cousin. She works for a tech company.

 

[Juve]

No I work for a tech/travel company

Not her then.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Well she ain't Italian just like Johnny O'Brien from Boston isn't Irish and Joe Olson from Minnesota isn't Swedish. You go to those countries and you're American to people, not less, not more.

That's an extremely limited of seeing things and I say this as someone who's lived his whole life in NA and has multiple passports/nationalities. I'm not just Canadian.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Imagine caring so much about something that’s all made up and in our heads… we put value on a piece of paper and think it means something. To hell with that

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

That's an extremely limited of seeing things and I say this as someone who's lived his whole life in NA and has multiple passports/nationalities. I'm not just Canadian.

I moved to America less than a decade ago and I've talked to people back home who've expressed surprise I speak without an American accent. The simple reality is that once you're gone a certain amount of time to many of them you're no longer one of them. If you were born over here, you're definitely no longer one of them. If your parents were born here, it's basically all but irrelevant. That doesn't mean people need to forget their ancestry or heritage or whatever, but put it into context.