They Don’t do Second Best in Italy

The rise of rugby in Italy and it's slow rise over football.
By: VacationRentalPeople
 
Oct. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- They don’t seem to settle for second best in Italy, in fact most things resonate with a certain sense of pride at being the highest of quality. The way people dress is with the finest fibres that can be afforded, even if it can’t be afforded. Then there is the food, beloved by all, though by none more than the Italians, ridden with secret recipes that are known only by family members between  generation to generation.

Certainly staying in northern Italy it's a rarity to encounter anyone who is anything less than completely immaculate, indeed you may be forgiven for thinking that sweatpants are banned here. You could hardly imagine tramps here accepting hand me downs. Style is uttermost, doing things with class is essential.

This extends to their approach to sports, to their fancy football clubs, as style obsessed as the boutiques, and to their rugby.

Rugby seems a surprising sport to have caught off in Italy, very physical and hardly the most modest or overtly artistic of sports, and yet there is a strong interest in the game. And it would seem to be the ultra stylish north that really excels in this sport, with the impossibly trendy Treviso really dominating the game in Italy.

Yet their forays in to European match up have been something of an embarrassment and the team have lost nearly 28 out of their 30 matches. That’s a dismal two wins in five years, given the Italian attitude, you know this is not to be tolerated. So while the team may be enjoyed at home, their European fixtures will generally go unsupported. Italians do not share that British love of the underdog.

But it looks like the winds are set to change, and victory throughout Europe will only serve to increase the game’s popularity throughout Italy.

In the Magners league recently the team were able to step up and win three out of their five games, barely setting the world alight, but still a marked improvement from previous form and perhaps a sign of what’s to come if they can keep up their momentum. Now maybe local fans will not have to wince in the stands as they settle for an insufferable second best.

This comes after the budget of the team has been increased by eight million Euros a year, a sign that the owners are beginning to take the club investment a little more seriously. There is also a marked increase in the publicity that the team have been receiving, money has been spent on ad campaigns and for the first time in a while, the team have been receiving a full attendance for their European fixtures.

Now locals are very much getting in to the sport, growing dissatisfied with football and it’s large periods of inaction, football is too boring a local remarked.

Furthermore it looks like many are keen to take the sport over to Sardinia, not necessarily an obvious choice but there are those renting Sardinia villas and teaching the locals a few new tricks.





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