Udinese...

14-01-2012

Genoa-Udinese, Di Natale-Rossi!

It is a life's choice (“It’s life’s choice”?). To remain in a city and keep playing for the same team despite everything. The first example was Gigi Riva, who renounced to several awards (???) to play in Sardinia.

A courageous choice, hard to make (“one that is hard to make”?), that seems almost impossible in today’s globalized football. Totò Di Natale and Marco Rossi are –perhaps- the only two examples left of this love for the shirt (“jersey”?). We know everything about Totò: come in 2004 (“he came in 2004 to the team”?), he made his name clear with goals. Udine is his second home, the place where he grew up, so he decided to stay here and become Udinese’s captain: he’s the best scorer of all times (“of all time”?), the only Udinese player to have won the top scorer award twice in a row. He’s still eager to entertain at the age of 34, always with Udinese’s shirt (“jersey”?).

Also Genoa have their “flag”: Marco Rossi. A player who never left, even in the darkest hour of the club, when in summer 2005 (“when during the summer of 2005”?) Genoa got moved down “(was relegated”?) to the Serie C1 instead of promoted (“instead of being promoted”?) to the Serie A. Rossi didn’t want to leave the club back then and decided to stay and help his squad regaining (“regain”?) its room (“place”?) in the major competition: the squad is back in the Serie A in two years and manages (“managed”?) to conquer also Europe. And Rossi, who’s become one of the most present players in Genoa’s history, is still there, playing.

Plattaforms?

ALWAYS watch out for those nasty "plattaforms" as you're getting on and off of an Italian train!!!

Udinese...

12-01-2012 - 15:32

Exclusive interview to ("with"?) Giacomini on UdineseCalcio.tv

A long chat, divided in (or "into"?) two parts, between ("the"?) past and future of Udinese, with someone who has Udinese in his blood: Massimo Giacomini, ("an"?) ex-player and ex-coach of the Friulian team, has been interviewed by UdineseCalcio.tv!

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?

Udinese...

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?