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Messi, twisted blood and Gvardiol’s place in the World Cup montage

In today’s Football Daily: Argentina’s talisman torments a future star and get your applications in for the Belgium job

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022

Former Italian PM Berlusconi promises a bus of whores to Monza players if they win against Milan, Juventus

NEW DELHI: In a grotesque statement, Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he will bring a bus of whores for his Monza football team if they manage to beat top Serie A rivals like Inter, Milan and Juventus.

The Times of India · Dec 14, 2022

Italy: why Meloni won

Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni assured the EU there was no cause for alarm as her far-right government came to power. Her first actions on migrants and civil liberties tell a different story.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 13, 2022

Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in bribery case

An Italian court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing a witness in a 2013 underage prostitution case, giving a boost to the veteran politician weeks after his return to parliament.

Reuters · Nov 17, 2022

Meloni tells NATO it can count on Italy in Ukraine

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is pledging Italy’s “strong commitment” to NATO and efforts to help liberate Ukraine from Russia’s invasion

The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2022

Italy’s new, far-right leader heads to EU HQ to break ice

New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is coming to Brussels

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2022

The fox in the chicken coop: how the far right is playing the European Parliament

Several countries in the European Union are currently governed by far-right political parties. In Hungary, Fidesz under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been progressively dismantling the country’s constitutional protections of the rule of law and democratic institutions. Poland under its ruling Law and Justice party has shown equally worrying trends.…

The Conversation · Nov 2, 2022

Serie A’s Mari Sidelined for Two Months after Supermarket Stabbing

Serie A soccer player Pablo Mari faces at least two months out of the game after an operation on Friday for stab wounds from an attack in an Italian supermarket that left one man dead. Milan's Niguarda hospital said its trauma team had reconstructed two muscles in the back of…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 28, 2022

Soccer player injured in knife attack calls himself 'lucky'

Spanish soccer player Pablo Marí called himself “lucky” to survive after getting wounded in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022

Italian PM Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote

Italy’s first far-right-led government since the fall of fascism in World War II can get down to business after new Premier Giorgia Meloni easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament on Wednesday.

France 24 · Oct 26, 2022