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Originally Posted by Rick
Haha. Charlie, I probably would have been hooked by Gianni Rivera had I ever seen Milan play in those days. But unfortunately they didn't make it onto American television in the 60s and 70s.  |
I don't remember when exactly I started supporting Milan, but it started in my early years of primary school and my favourate player was Rivera.
The Italian TV was easily caught. (we are only 60 miles away from Sicily) During the Italian league only the goals and sintesis of the matches were shown on RaiTV so we had to follow the games on the Italian Radio. There was a programme named "Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto" which was followed by most of the Italian supporters.
Here in Malta in those days all the population were supporting either Italy or England.
Even those who didn't understood the game of football, a game between these 2 countries/clubs were not going to miss it. It was a very HOT Issue.
At the age of 10 I still remember my Auntie arguing in loud voice with me during the 1970 world cup because I was supporting Italy. She told me: "Those bastards throwed so many bombs on us, How can you support them?"
This rivality now is only in football, but for the past generations it was also a political issue.
Although today the standard of living in general is much more better, sometimes I miss those days. (Nostalgy)