YouTube Tuesday: Azzurri Thespians
By: Martha | January 8th, 2008
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It’s been a while since we’ve had a YouTube Tuesday, but BundesligaJan dug up this clip, and it’s more than worthy of being featured. It’s the trailer for a movie called L’Allenatore nel pallone 2, which has something to do with the Italian football and is obviously going to be a pile of crap, but since it features such guest stars as Alex Del Piero, Francesco Totti, Luca Toni and Gigi Buffon, it probably doesn’t matter. (One has to ask, though, what the hell Marcello Lippi did to the director to be played by a guy about four times his size.)
If there’s anything particularly awful or, less likely, hilarious in the dialogue, Italian-speakers, drop it in the comments so the rest of us can enjoy, too.
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Can’t see the vid M. Try embedding it again.
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Fuckle, it works for me in two different browsers — what’re you using? (In the meantime, I’ll add a link, too.)
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Cool. Ya I wish I could tell which version of Explorer I’m using… but oh well I’ll use that link.
I’m just hoping there’s a line in the film, something to the effect Lippi- “I eat becuase i’m unhappy, and i’m unhappy because I eat”. hahahah
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The first movie was in the 80’s and it was pretty funny, and basically the story line is about a terrible manager named Oronzo Cana’ (played by famous comedian and Roma fan Lino Banfi) who is hired to coach SS Longobarda (a fictional team), who have just been promoted to Serie A. He then goes to Brazil to buy a star Brazilian player (Aristotles). The rest of them movie focuses on Cana as he tries to achieve La Salvezza with Longobarda.
This one should be even better, as Cana returns to coaching in the modern era.
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I love how bad of an actor Totti is just in those short clips. (Though Aquilani is looking FINE, damn!)
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L’Allenatore nel Pallone (the first one) is considered a cult soccer movie in the old country, much like Eccezzziunale Veramente with Diego Abantantuono. Odds are the sequel one will become too, if it isn’t too stupid. :D
By the way Martha, that whole Buffon-Del Piero-Totti courtroom scenes rotates around Canà (the coach character) being put on trial, and sentenced to a “penalty box - jail cell” (it’s funnier in Italian). Totti’s the public defender for Canà, who (expectedly) “asks the clemency of the court”. At which point Canà bursts out: “What? But aren’t you my defender?”. And Totti: “Canà, don’t you get it yet? I’m a striker, not a defender”.
I assure you, it is funnier in Italian (although not by a huge amount) :P
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hahaha, i so want to see this with subtitles
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I don’t think the original was ever subtitled, but perhaps there is a larger Anglophone market now.
Marco is spot on with his summary (Abantantuono also did an Interista sequel to the Milanista Eccezzziunale Veramente a few years ago that didn’t achieve the success of the original).
Corriere reports this morning that Moggi was supposed to be in Allenatore 2, delivering a cameo as the chief of a railway station (his original job in real life). That idea fell apart because Moggi’s agent wanted a more prominent role. And it just so happens that Moggi’s agent is none other than Lele Mora, the larger than life (literally and figuratively) eminence grise behind the paparazzo Fabrizio Corona, who was at the centre of last year’s blackmail scandal whose “victims” allegedly included Totti, Milan and Inter.
It really is a very small country in many ways.
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Thanks for the translation and details, Mike and ursus! (I just found the article you mentioned, ursus — how on earth is Moggi’s agent connected to blackmail thing? Is he somehow to blame for Coco and the “arguement gay”?)
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My pleasure, as always.
Lele Mora, Moggi’s agent, is a Milan-based impressario specialising in reality show and soft porn stars (the two sometimes overlapping (in every possible sense of the term)), who essentially made the career of Fabrizio Corona, the paparazzo at the centre of that scandal. Mora would feed photo ops for his clients to Corona, would also provide tips on other “celebrities” for him, and would help him in the blackmail negotiations. Corona eventually began to work on his own (especially after he became close to, and then married a well-known Croatian model), but he remained close to Mora (who rather resembles Luciano Gaucci, the guy who drove Perugia into bankruptcy and is now living as a fugitive from Italian justice in the Dominican Republic).
It will not shock you to know that Coco is well known to both Mora and Corona (who actually went to jail for a while, which gave rise to a short-lived rap song and gave him enough material to write a “true crime” insta-book). Mora is also close to Flavio Briatore, the quintessential Italian playboy who is head of Renault’s Formula One team and now principal owner of Queens Park Rangers (Coco is also a long time friend of Flav’s).
As I said, a very small country in many ways.
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