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  • : But given that injury list, we still have so called calcio "pundits," or so they claim, or know-it - ...

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008

  • : But given that injury list, we still have so called calcio "pundits," or so they claim, or know-it - ...

    The Offside 2008

  • Oxford the Italian game of "calcio" (of which more anon), and was one of the most popular and important men of his college.

    For the Faith Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • Each June in Florence, Italy they add a gladiatorial element to their football in the ancient game of calcio storico -- a passionate blend of bare-knuckle boxing, rugby and football played out in Renaissance garb.

    Paul Dodson: Football Mutations Paul Dodson 2011

  • Tra gli specialisti seguiti criminal pi attenzione dagli scout, il Bulldog ha trasformato il calcio pi lungo dalle 56 yards e ha centrato la miglior prestazione della sua ancor giovane carriera contro Arkansas, pacifist ha segnato ben fourteen punti, 4 FG e 2 XP.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Tra gli specialisti seguiti criminal pi attenzione dagli scout, il Bulldog ha trasformato il calcio pi lungo dalle 56 yards e ha centrato la miglior prestazione della sua ancor giovane carriera contro Arkansas, pacifist ha segnato ben fourteen punti, 4 FG e 2 XP.

    Rites of Autumn Blog Archive College Football Awards: i finalisti. admin 2009

  • My 10-year-old son, who was born in this country to an Italian mother and an American father, has been overcome by the national passion for calcio .

    Football, Fandom and Fantasista Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

  • As the worldwide popularity of that up to now quite un-American sport -- fútbol/футбол (the Italians have resisted the Anglo-Saxon linguistic temptation and call it calcio) -- tells us, US soft power, as concerns sports, may not be as automatically seductive to the rest of the world as we Americans sometimes naively assume it to be.

    John Brown: Public Diplomacy, Sports, and the Waning Influence of American Popular Culture 2010

  • This is an unfolding drama with a thick plot – the grudge between the two competing coaches who could hardly be a better fit for the good guy/bad guy stereotype as far as Italians are concerned, and the north/south divide that has always fuelled conspiracies in calcio cranks up the tension.

    Roma, Claudio Ranieri and José Mourinho: romance and revenge in Italy 2010

  • Not so implausible it would seem according to John Malkovich himself as he talked on an Italian television show called Quelli che il calcio which was caught through Badtaste.it and ComickBookMovie.

    Filmstalker: Malkovich confirms Vulture in Spider-Man 4 2010

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  • Football (soccer). Literally means 'a kick' from the verb 'calciare'. Also has apparently unrelated meaning of calcium.

    November 26, 2007