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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Incidentally, October 14th is also my birthday, though I have to say that for the past two years, I haven't exactly been in the mood to celebrate anything. Fuck those who don't respect human rights. Fuck war criminals.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today marks the first October 14th since 2023 that the Italy vs. Israel match is *not* being played in Udine. It took place there in 2024 for the Nations League and in 2025 for the World Cup qualifiers. Same match, same date, same city. >>>

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A year ago, at roughly this time, I was in Udine breathing in tear gas and trying to dodge these things fired by the police at head height - all while doing my job: documenting a political protest against a football match (Italy vs. Israel). >>>

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Arsenal are the English champions and European runners-up; they spent 227 million on players last summer, yet must lay off 60 employees to "cut costs."

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In #SouthKorea, playing football offers a strong chance of avoiding military service. And in a country facing a demographic crisis - and one that never signed a peace treaty for a 70-years ago war - this has become a problem that needs addressing. www.editorialedomani.it/sport/corea-...

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Così il calcio sta spingendo la Corea del Sud a cambiare le leggi sulla leva militare

La recente vittoria della nazionale ai Giochi asiatici e le parole dell’attaccante Yang Min-hyeok hanno riaperto il dibattito sulle esenzioni per meriti speciali, tra cui le vittorie sportive. Per gli...

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This story begins in 2015, when Berlusconi was on the verge of selling AC Milan to a certain 'Mr. Bee'. And it ends with a young man being arrested in Budapest, while an unprecedented scandal engulfs the world of football. What a brilliant butterfly effect! Enjoy the read!

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In Lens, a young man lost a hand during a protest after being struck by a police tear gas grenade.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The person who won the #NobelPeacePrize, in 2017 resigned from a role at FIFA, denouncing pressure and interference regarding independent committees. The FIFA president at the time was already Infantino.

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Graham Dunbar @gdunbarap.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay left her role at FIFA in 2017 to protest its interference in the work of independent oversight officials. She probably won't get the next FIFA Peace Prize.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Football jersey prices are rising, yet the people who make them are paid a pittance and exploited.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you think the FIGC being placed under special administration is an absurd affair, bear in mind that there are currently three other Italian sports federations in the same situation - each with a story more paradoxical than the last. I wrote about it for @ilpost.it. www.ilpost.it/2026/10/08/c...

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Le altre federazioni sportive italiane che sono commissariate

Oltre alla Federcalcio: cricket, rafting e pesistica, e il pentathlon moderno era stato commissariato da un generale dei Carabinieri

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know that, viewed from the outside, Italian football looks like nothing but inexplicable chaos. But in reality, it is a political battle (bordering on farce) between 60-year-old children, driven by petty personal grudges and a desire for payback.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The FIGC (Italian Football Association) has been placed under special administration because President Malagò (elected in June) was ineligible due to a bureaucratic technicality that had gone unnoticed. Malagò himself will serve as the FIGC commissioner. BEST. COUNTRY. EVER.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brazilians are voting today, and football is taking a stand (as always, for that matter).

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who remembers Ashkan #Dejagah, who found himself at the center of an international incident 19 years ago for refusing to play against #Israel? Today, I’m telling you his story (and it’s not what you probably expect). pallonateinfaccia.com/2026/10/04/d...

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Il calciatore che non volle giocare contro Israele

Nel 2007 un giovane calciatore tedesco finì al centro di una polemica internazionale per essersi rifiutato di giocare contro Israele. Il suo nome era Ashkan Dejagah e aveva origini iraniane.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

⚽ Which Italian football fan groups are right-wing and which are left-wing? Since I'm often asked this question, here's a quick and essential guide (in English!). 📲 footballpolitics.substack.com/p/political-...

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Political Football Fans: The Italian Landscape

Italian football fans have a long history, and the ultras movement has always been connected with social causes: a political map of the Italian football fans.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think this Manchester City story is a matter concerning football and nothing else, you are terribly wrong, my friend.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is a moment, a little past the halfway point of the episode, that took me nearly ten minutes to record - simply because it was hard to read the script, on human level. Enjoy the episode.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, there was a beautiful solidarity match between Konyaspor and Palestine. Yet it was also a propaganda tool for Erdoğan. And Konyaspor fans are right-wing racist that didn't show the same solidarity to Kurdish people.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would have been better not to play. But if it has to be done, this is the right way to do it.

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🇮🇪 Jack Moylan, after scoring Ireland's third goal against Israel, celebrated by removing and kissing the black armband that the Irish players are wearing for this match. 👇

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Almost thirty years ago, Ireland had already found itself in a situation similar to the one seen in recent days: the high-profile boycott of an official match against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu, a true human being in a world of cowards.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Ireland will play against #Israel tomorrow. Yet, no other country had so seriously questioned the idea of playing on ethical grounds. If not Ireland, who could have done so? I wrote about it on @ilpost.it. www.ilpost.it/2026/09/26/i...

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Le contestate partite che l'Irlanda deve giocare contro Israele

Calciatori, allenatori e politici sembravano volerle boicottare, ma alla fine dovrebbero disputarsi, domani in Ungheria e il 4 ottobre in Serbia

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A story from #Palestine you probably won't hear much about.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tensions are rising between #Ireland and #Israel ahead of their two upcoming UEFA Nations League matches. The games are going ahead, yet almost everyone in Ireland is in favor of a boycott. I wrote about this for the Italian newspaper Domani. www.editorialedomani.it/sport/irland...

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«Boicottiamo Israele»: il match che l’Irlanda non vuole giocare

Dalle parole del ct Hallgrímsson alle proteste dei tifosi, l’imminente doppio confronto contro la nazionale di Tel Aviv divide profondamente il paese. Le gare sono state spostate in campo neutro (una ...

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A small but significant development: Kevin Kilbane, one of the most well-known footballers in Irish history, has written an article opposing matches against Israel. It is yet further confirmation that this is a massive issue of debate in Ireland.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Matthias #Sindelar neither committed suicide nor was murdered. He was not Jewish, nor was his partner (who was not Italian, either). But above all, he was certainly not anti-Nazi. I have reconstructed his true story - not the legend everyone tells. pallonateinfaccia.com/2026/09/20/m...

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Tutto ciò che sapete su Matthias Sindelar è falso

Tutti conoscono la storia di Matthias Sindelar, il grande campione austriaco che sfidò i nazisti e morì in circostanze misteriose. Ma tutto ciò che sapete su di lui è falso.

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🇸🇦 Cristiano #Ronaldo 's Al-Nassr could be acquired by RedBird, which also has another deal in the works with the PIF. Meanwhile, the Saudi club is facing financial issues that have received little attention. Read more here: pallonateinfaccia.substack.com/p/pif-sell-a... 👇

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gerard López nearly drove Lille and Boavista to ruin, bankrupted Excelsior Mouscron, and - essentially - Bordeaux as well. I wrote about Europe's worst football club owner for @ilpost.it (in Italian). www.ilpost.it/2026/09/17/g...

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L’uomo che fa fallire le squadre di calcio

O comunque le lascia molto, molto peggio di come le trova: auguratevi che Gerard López non compri quella per cui tifate

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mbappé: the voice of reason in a world of lunatics.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The British Army is promoting itself by exploiting football.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One need only look at who is most vigorously backing the campaign in the world of football to start having doubts: Real Madrid’s Grada Sur, Málaga’s Frente Bokerón (who chant about Ceuta and insult Pedro Sánchez in the very next breath), Javier Tebas, a businessmen's association...

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This whole story of shirts and slogans in support of Ceuta has been ambiguous from the very start. "On Ceuta's side" - but against whom? The migrants? The Moroccan government (and thus against the Spanish government, which denies Moroccan responsibility)?

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am teaching my baby this semester: INTL 4660: Film, Politics and Literature It is a course about non-democracies, which uses academic literature to teach about the characteristics of the non-democratic systems and movies and (graphic) novels to teach about life under non-democratic regimes.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the 1930s, there was a team that dominated German football. That team was captained by one of the greatest German footballers of all time. You can imagine how this story ends.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ireland is spearheading one of the largest and most effective sports boycott campaigns in living memory.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The situation right now is this: #Infantino remains the sole candidate for the FIFA presidency in 2027. His opponents - Čeferin and a few others - seem somewhat short on ideas. The momentum of the battle has shifted. My take in Domani (in Italian). www.editorialedomani.it/sport/infant...

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Infantino resta forte: la rivolta delle federazioni non è mai cominciata davvero

Il boicottaggio è rientrato, un candidato alternativo ancora non c’è e le defezioni contro il presidente della Fifa restano concentrate quasi soltanto in Europa. Čeferin e Montagliani puntano ora sull...

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ordinary stories of ordinary Italian football, these days: AS Roma fans doing fascist salute, and FC Inter Milan fans doing monkey gesture to Napoli fans.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Volkswagen is facing a severe crisis and has decided to scale back many of its investments, including those in football. We are talking about a company that holds significant stakes in four German clubs. I wrote about this on InsideOver (in Italian). it.insideover.com/economia/la-...

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Volkswagen mette in crisi anche il calcio tedesco

La lunga crisi di Volkswagen adesso potrebbe fare anche una vittima eccellente: il calcio. Fine delle sponsorizzazioni d'oro.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Belgrade derby has (predictably) become an occasion to pay tribute to a vicious war criminal. Serbia: a rogue state.

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Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Those great disaster stories we love so much.

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