S8 Ep652: 6. Italian Soccer Pressure and Meloni’s Cabinet Reshuffle Guest: Lorenzo Fiori Summary: Fiori previews the Azzurri’s high-stakes match against Wales and explains Prime Minister Meloni’s firing of controversial officials. He also stresses the importance of
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
6. Italian Soccer Pressure and Meloni’s Cabinet Reshuffle Guest: Lorenzo Fiori Summary: Fiori previews the Azzurri’s high-stakes match against Wales and explains Prime Minister Meloni’s firing of controversial officials. He also stresses the importance of authentic Parmesan and the beauty of Sardinian heritage. (6)
1921 MOSCOW
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel, Lorenzo Fiori from Milan here to help me understand the Italian news of the week, which is all |
| 0:22.2 | about the Azuri. The Azuri are playing Wales in a few days' time, and why that's critical is? |
| 0:30.0 | Lorenzo, a very good evening to you. The Azuri are the Italian football team headed to the World |
| 0:35.9 | Cup, but they have to do something first. Who are they playing |
| 0:39.2 | on Tuesday and what do they have to do? What's necessary to get into the World Cup? Good evening to you. |
| 0:44.8 | Good evening, John. Good evening to the listener. John, let me tell you are asking me a very critical |
| 0:50.7 | question because, you know, all the Italians are very, very anxious to know what |
| 0:57.9 | can happen on next Tuesday because we are going to play against the Wales in Cardiff, so in England. |
| 1:05.6 | And that is a very strategic match simply because we must win to win the playoff and enter into the |
| 1:17.6 | world championship this year. If we do not win, that will be a disaster, a disaster for the |
| 1:24.1 | Italian football for all the Italians because this should be the fourth time |
| 1:28.1 | consecutive that Italy is not a part of the World Championship. And this is something unacceptable, |
| 1:35.1 | considering how many World Championship Italy won. So the Azuri, which is the color of the shirt |
| 1:42.8 | of the Italian team, which remembers the color of the shirt of the Italian team, which remembers the color of the royal family |
| 1:49.6 | flag in Italy, will play next Tuesday and all the Italian, I'm sure, will be attending the TV |
| 1:57.4 | set that night. |
| 1:58.7 | George Maloney, the Prime Minister is getting ready for the election next year in |
| 2:02.8 | 27, and the way she did that was the referendum, which she lost, and now she's making |
| 2:08.7 | adjustments to her cabinet. |
| 2:10.7 | She's firing people. |
| 2:11.8 | Who did she fire? |
| 2:14.1 | George Ameloni fired three persons. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.