Udinese and its "Le Roy"!!!!!

10-01-2012 - 12:57

Congrats Lionel Messi!

Udinese Calcio give their compliments to Barcelona’s striker Lionel Messi for his third “Golden Ball” in a row, something that only “Le Roy” (how about “Le Roi”, at least in French???) Michel Platini had achieved.

The Argentinian world beater, who was awarded by Ronaldo in Zurich yesterday, had already won (“the”?) 2005 “Euro Champion” when he had won the trophy for the best young player of all the European championships. In that edition, (“which had been celebrated”?) celebrated at the “Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine”, the protagonists were also Ronaldinho as “Great of Spain” (???) (footballer), Frank Rijkaard as “Great of Spain” (???) (coach), Walter Adrian Samuel as “best transfer market stroke” (???), Zlatan Ibrahimovic as “best foreigner of Italian football”, Rafa Benitez as “best European coach”, Arrigo Sacchi as “successful Italian abroad”, Fabio Capello as “best Italian coach”, Alberto Gilardino as “best Italian footballer”, Nestor Sensini as “adopted Friulian”, Massimo De Santis as “best Italian referee” and Italo Cucci for his career as a journalist.

Speackers Corner?

This time our Italian blooper comes to us thanks to La Repubblica’s magazine, “Il Venerdi’, the January 6^th, 2012 edition and an article by Elena Martelli on the Twitter phenonomen: “Per quelli come loro, Twitter e’ lo ‘Speackers’ Corner’ del mondo” (p. 82). Speackers, or Speakers?

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7-01-2012 - 21:17

Music and magic, Totò thrills the Friuli

2012 is going to be an important year to ("for"?) Udinese and their ("its"?) captain, Totò Di Natale, who aims at thrilling Udinese’s supporters with his goals. Admired in Italy and abroad, our Totò never stops scoring!

Miss a porters!

This comes to us this time from Giulio Mancini of Rome’s “Il Messaggero” (January 3, 2012) newspaper on the chaos surrounding Rome’s Fiumicino airport (aka Leonardo da Vinci). Mancini is quoting angry passengers and some of their Twitter messages. Indeed some fine, fine tips on how to NOT learn English!

“…digita sul suo smartphone la frase “miss a porters”, cerco i facchini”.

Translation: “…she types on her smartphone “miss a porters”, I look for porters”. Hmm, MISS means something completely opposite to LOOK for porters, and it should rather say, “Missing porters”.

“Danilo Ruffini annota il suo twet”.

Translation: “Danilo Ruffini makes a note of his twet”. Shouldn’t it be “tweet”?

Finally,

“Una donna contesta la situazione in cinque parole: ‘Immigrations is like a labyrinth”, ovvero l’ingresso in Italia e’ come un labirinto”.

Translation: “A woman contests the situation in five words: ‘Immigrations is like a labyrinth’, that is, entrance into Italy is like a labyrinth”. Hmm, immigration isn’t usually translated as “entrance” and we don’t usually put it in the plural, and if we did it should at least be “Immigrations ARE like a labyrinth”, right?

Wishing night?

24-12-2011 - 18:03

It’s wishing night!

Christmas Eve has always been a wishing night (???). The wishes of Udinese’s supporters are well-known: they all hope to continue ammiring ("admiring"?) this great Udinese: we know their hearts, their wills (is someone going to die because they have to leave a will????), their pride will be always at the top!

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19-12-2011 - 10:12

Pinzi: “We proved what we can do, on Wednesday we are to win” (“we have to win”?)

Giampiero Pinzi is happy at the end of the match with Lazio for the decisive goal he scored: “I don’t score much, it’s my flaw. I’m happy, even if I scored it to my Lazio (“if I scored it against my Lazio”?). Our goals? We can have fun, we proved to be at the level of (“at the same level”?) AC Milan, Juventus and Lazio themselves. There is nothing to lose, we’ll be daredevil (“daredevils against”?) to Juventus, eager to win. We are a great group. A prevision (???, how about “prediction”????) for Wednesday? We win, 2-0”.

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19-12-2011 - 10:25

Guidolin: “Proud of my squad”

Pinzi’s goal allows Udinese to conquer one point to remain in the upper part of the ranking (“standings”?). “We made a mistake when we conceded the first goal, with all the defence lined up – Guidolin said after the match – but Benatia is still one of the best defenders of our championship, a reliable player. As we took the lead, we began playing better and Lulic’s goal gave Lazio a hope. In the second half we did our best and we achieved the well-deserved draw”.
Why did Di Natale made (“make”?) a late appearance?
“We are the only Italian team to have played three matches in six days and I have to take in consideration a number of factors. I can count upon extraordinary players who are able to give me satisfaction”.
Thirty-one points after 15 weeks. Have you started thinking big?
“I’m proud of my squad, enthusiast (“enthusiastic”?). I think AC Milan and Juventus will outdistance us in the end because they are stronger than us, but we’ll do our best to stay up there as long as possible and to give Juventus some troubles (“trouble”?) on Wednesday”.
Udinese have conquered 74 points this year.
“An unbelievable result coming from hard work” (“which comes from hard work”?).