Video of the week: Italian amateur football bloopers

By: Francesco | July 23rd, 2009

It’s the summer, and that means summer friendlies. And most Italian clubs (the ones that don’t go abroad and play in makeshift tournaments vs other big sides) stay in a remote town up in northern Italy or even another country like Austria. So, to gain match fitness, they play summer friendlies, and these summer friendlies are most of the time vs whatever local side the club can find, usually made up of the town butcher, a construction worker, some bricklayers, and a few office workers. That’s why you read your team’s preseason news and see scores of 14-0, 10-0, 9-1, and sometimes an embarrassing 1-0 or 2-0 win. So just how bad are these Italian local sides? Well luckily there’s a video on youtube that shows us! Bloopers from the Italian amateur leagues after the jump.