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Captendo on 08 May 2009
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You know, I like Wolfsburg just because of the shirt: I love green and I like the Volkswagen Arena. Nothing more, seryously.

Anyway, I have some relatives from Munchen: I have been there once, back in the 2006, and it's a freaking amazing city. Awesome beer, an amazing square with the famous clock and the municipium. Munich is amazing, period. I love it. Furthermore, the Allianz Arena is the first big stadium I have ever been in, so I love it. I had a very good pretzel there (My gosh, I dunno how to write it. German is pretty though to write down, you know?), I still can recall it very well. I'm sad that this year was so terrible for you, since I like Bayern. Yeah, I guess we are in the same ship...at least you got to the last 8 I guess.

The attendance problem here is about how we see a stadium: it's thought as a bad place where a father isn't supposed to take his children to spend a sunday. And it's a terrible idea. Of course we have a lot of bad fans here, like Lazio's, Livorno's, Catania's, Atalanta's, Roma's and so on.
The main problem is in Rome itself: ever single week you hear someone got stabbed yet none does something about it, cause it's Rome and so it's untouchable. Anyway, a lot of journalists like threatening it as an huge problem, while none is interested in taking decisions about it. Sky is getting pretty strong and the main teams are in the northern part of Italy: I live 700 kms far away from Turin, how am I supposed to follow my team?
In the Serie A, among the southern teams, we have Reggina (Reggio Calabria), Palermo, Catania, Lecce, Napoli and Cagliari. 6 out of 20. A lot of the people living in these places are forced to watch the matches trough Sky and cannot go to the stadium. But that's not a very big deal.
The main problem is the stadium itself: for the most of them, you have bad buildings, dirty, ugly and with that terrible field around the pitch. We need to do a lot in order to take people back to the stadium and I think that these are our 3 biggest problems.

I'm very happy to be able to speak with such an expert, anyway. And I'm even happier to see how you confirm that Diego is coming to Turin!