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Italians

I nearly forgot to mention this...

I did managed to catch the last 20 minutes or so of the Italy vs. Mexico after my class. I went next door to the Foreign Students building at the university that I take the class at, and transfixed in front of the screen was a mixed group, but about 5 or 6 Italians leading the cheering. They were quite animated. When Del Piero scored the goal in the 85th minute, the room literally erupted. This one guy was screaming something in Italian, and he grabbed his chair and hoisted it above his head, shouting and screaming, then pumped the chair several times in the air still screaming, and finally brought it down and banged the poor chair into the ground five or six times before letting the poor thing be.

It was far more amusing than any goal would have been.