I am so glad that it finally started! No time for after-ESC-depression. But my depression will come along the way the past weeks. Probably another "zero points", this time in soccer. Unless the soccer God isn't a German-Fan, we will say Goodbye quite soon. Will Italy win the soccer cup just as in ESC?
Mauve you don't have to be depressed. When you're down in the dumps, come here to the forum. You will find many friends who love you.
Euro 2020 has finally started. In football, however, an Italian woman journalist said well, there are no predictions. Obviously there are the favorite teams but the ball is round and can anything happen? Would anyone have thought that Denmark, Greece and Portugal would win the European football championships? Would Italy have ever thought of being defeated in 1966 by the North Korea of the dentist Pak Doo Ik? Would we Italians have ever thought of not qualifying for the 1958 and 2018 World Cups by being defeated by Northern Ireland and Sweden? What I know is that Germany has a great football tradition and that often the "less brilliant" teams manage to triumph (Italy has almost always won by suffering and almost always by "non-favorite").
In these three years, Italy has shown that it is reconstructing a football scene that was lost: victim of the "generational change", of the presumption of calling itself "Italy" and of not believing in our young people. Mancini did a great job and now our national team is complete in every department. The Italian national team does not have phenomena like Mbappè or Ronaldo but is made up of veterans and young people who know how to play football, are close-knit and determined. What I'm enjoying is that we have managed to modernize our defensive football, all heart and racing and evolve it into a football of "front-wheel drive defense and intelligent ball possession". We are not the favorites but France, Belgium and Portugal are favorites. Then there is the competition from Germany, Spain and England. I don't know who will win but we will fight until the last second (hoping that the "God of penalties" is not against us haha).
Anyway ... if Italy were to win Euro 2020 here in the forum the haters would drool with anger!
As we didn't qualify, I can watch everything in peace and root for good football.
