Category: Italy

Inter fans taunt Juventus with dreamy tifo

Juventus came up one win short of becoming just the second Italian club to ever win the treble last season, but Barcelona were just too much for them to handle in the Champions League final.

In case Juve and their fans somehow forgot this bitter end to an otherwise stellar campaign, fans of the only Italian club to ever win the treble, Inter, produced a large tifo display to remind them before Sunday’s 0-0 draw in the derby d’Italia. It also included a subtle nod to Juve’s time in Serie B as a result of their Calciopoli punishment.

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Mario Balotelli scores tremendous free kick in first start since his Milan return

Building on an impressive showing off the bench in the Milan derby, Mario Balotelli has scored his first goal since returning to Milan in style with an absolutely perfect free kick into the top corner against Udinese. The goal came in just the fifth minute. Balo was sporting a Doc Brown from Back to the Future style mohawk as he did it.

And just like that, Mario has matched his Premier League goal total with Liverpool.

Palermo’s Mudo Vazquez pulls off a triple nutmeg that would make Messi jealous

Palermo midfielder Mudo Vazquez put on a show in his side’s friendly against third division club Lumezzane.

The Argentina born Italian international netmegged one player twice — first going backwards, then forwards. That alone was enough to make everyone in attendance experience a spontaneous orgasm of the eyeballs, but he wasn’t done. He continued the run and nutmegged a second defender, who appeared to be incapacitated by witnessing the devastation wrought on his teammate, and only snapped out of it in time to foul Vazquez and end his soul snatching reign of terror.

Palermo went on to win 4-0. Jerome Boateng, meanwhile, is suddenly feeling a bit better about himself.