World Cup - Qualification Oceania · Defender · #20 · Cook Islands · 28 yrs
If professional athletes can represent more than one country, let alone multiple clubs, why shouldn’t fans change teams?“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.”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.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Joseph: Losing Rodri would be a massive blow to the team, he's been a fantastic servant over the past few years and has been a strong warrior regardless of injuries. To lose Rodri would put a hole in the team that would take time to fill. Rodri is just getting better, he proved that in his World Cup performances after a season of injuries.
RC Lens president and owner Joseph Oughourlian has given a wide-ranging interview to L’Equipe to review Les Sang et Or’s exceptional Ligue 1 season. Lens gave PSG a title race and won their ma...
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