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.

Category: Players, Serie A, Serie B, video of the week

Tags: Calcio, football, Futbol, Italy, Players, Serie A, Serie B, Serie C, Serie D, Soccer, video of the week

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• Aquismaia |  July 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm

  
  
  

  how idiots can they be, francesco how did you check these videos

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• k |  July 24th, 2009 at 1:09 am

  
  
  

  Don’t think it’s a good idea to call someone an idiot when you can barely form a full sentence.

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• Vlad |  July 24th, 2009 at 1:39 am

  
  
  

  Ahahahaha nice diss K, and their not idiots they are humans. And humans make mistakes.

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• asem |  July 24th, 2009 at 6:52 am

  
  
  

  i don’t think its a good idea to call someone an idiot when you can obviously see that English isn’t their first language, you ass.

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• Francesco |  July 24th, 2009 at 9:39 am

  
  
  

  I’m with asem on this one, I don’t think you can attack someone if you see they come from a non-English speaking country (I think that’s what the flags are for). Let’s keep it civil guys.

  To answer your question Aquismaia, “Mai Dire Gol” was a very popular show in Italy throughout the ’90s about football bloopers in Italy and around the world and while I was searching the videos on youtube I saw they had two about local sides.

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• Johonna |  July 25th, 2009 at 12:50 am

  
  
  

  Thank goodness there are no cameras around my office recording all the stupid mistakes I make! Yikes.

  Those poor keepers – Football is hard and they are clearly trying their little hearts out.

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• Husnain |  July 29th, 2009 at 2:06 am

  
  
  

  being a keeper sucks, u get no credit for the saves and blasted for ur mistakes :S

  i’ve seen non-keepers not even attempt to block the ball with their body and most of them get out of the way!!!

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