Dear respected gobbi,
The following little known/little spoken of facts have occured to me, and what better place than NATW to share them :
- Stefano Tacconi was active in the Movimento Sociale Italiano, the direct, unrepenting heirs of the Italian Fascist Party.
- Alberto Aquilani collects busts of Benito Mussolini.
- Gigi Buffon once wore the infamous "88" shirt (notorious nazi code for "Heil Hitler"). Gigi Buffon has also exhibited a tee-shirt sporting the sinister "boia chi molla" slogan, and saluted a bunch of Juve ultras in the curva that were calling him with the distinctly brownshirt address of "camerata".
- Fabio Cannavaro once sported an Italian flag with the "fascio littorio" in its centre, besides sponsoring the notoriously far-right "Evita Peron" youth camps.
Next week in NATW, how Juventus and FIAT won 5 consecutive scudetti between 1930 and 1935, and how Milan won none for the whole duration of the Ventennio.