Comments on: Lucarelli: Not As Cool As You’d Hope

By: SpanglyPrincess

SpanglyPrincess — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:56:22 +0000

mediaticamente means through the media/via the media

you might be interested in this: http://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/05/football_lucare.php

By: Marcello

Marcello — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:13:12 +0000

I dont really blame him. the way the fans are acting lately… well, nuff said.

By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:16:06 +0000

Thanks, SP. What does “mediaticamente” mean? The only translation I can find is “medicine,” which makes no sense at all — is it part of a colloquialism, in the context of his statement?

By: SpanglyPrincess

SpanglyPrincess — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:26:11 +0000

Nope it says that he’d love to attend and thanks all his & the clubs’ fans but he doesn’t want to end up being exploited by the media. He’s afraid the situation could be manipulated.

He’s certainly not afraid of getting hurt! He used to go in the curva all the time, home and away, whenever he could.

There’s more going on here than meets the eye, of course, since it chiefly relates to internal squabbles between different Livornese ultras groups. I think Lucarelli is trying to avoid giving his sanction to one group over another which would be impossible to avoid if he went in Curva.

By: tmc

tmc — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:22:42 +0000

Christian Gomez did this during his first season with DC United. It was an away match to the Metrostars, and he drove up to Giants Stadium, watched the game with the Barra Brava, while beating a drum and wearing an Argentina jersey. The other players on the team didn’t know about this before the game, and they were stunned when the noticed him in the stands after DCU scored a goal.