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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I remember when Buffon -- probably the best keeper who ever lived -- was playing for Parma ages ago and he chose the number 88 for his jersey and he got a lot of criticism because people assumed it was a Nazi reference. That was pretty funny. Italian football -- like many European countries -- has heaps of hard core right wing aligned fans. It's great.

(Honourable mention to Mark Bosnich the Aussie keeper of Croatian descent who gave the Roman salute and mimicked a Hitler moustache to the fans of the Jewish club Tottenham.)

[–]Mr_Tee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Buffon said "I don't give a damn", which is a quote attributed to Mussolini.

Honorable mention to the fascist goalkeeper Christian Abbiati of Milan.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is that right? I didn't even remember that. Based Buffon.