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La UEFA ha acogido con satisfacción que la FIFA haya retirado sus planes de vender una participación en el Mundial y reclama que “rindan cuentas” los responsables de “planes secretos, que se tramitan por la vía rápida”. En un comunicado difundido este sábado, la UEFA ha apuntado que en los próximos días y semanas trabajará con sus federaciones “y en estrecha colaboración con otras confederaciones, para reflexionar sobre cómo ha ocurrido esto y elaborar un plan que garantice que no vuelva a suceder” y que “esa revisión debe ser exhaustiva y profunda”.

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“I was fanatically pro-German when the Germans were here to protect us against the Americans, and now that Americans are here to protect us against the Germans, I am fanatically pro-American … you and your country will have no more loyal partisan in Italy than me – but only as long as you remain in Italy.”

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This passage from Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 – as an old Italian man explains the logic behind his fickle wartime expedience to a naive American soldier – plays with the question of what constitutes true strength. Universally perceived as weak, Italy are in fact the strongest nation in the second world war, according to the old man. And that, sort of, explains my feelings on football fandom.

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Ravenna, famous for Byzantine mosaics and Dante’s tomb, is now the unlikely stage for Ronaldinho’s 46‑year‑old return to Italian football. Fans in cafés watch La Gazzetta dello Sport, dubbing the signing a commercial ploy yet secretly dreaming of seeing the Ballon d’Or winner don the club’s yellow and red.

Ronaldinho, who once shared a World Cup final half‑time stage with Madonna and Ronaldo, was brought in by the club’s manager with high hopes of reigniting local interest and proving the legend still has the spark to inspire a Serie C campaign.

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