Ultras in Italy – part 1

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the first of a two-part special, we look at the roots of ultra culture, the politics and the power wielded by Italian clubs’ most passionate and outspoken fan groups. Suspending games, stopping signings and supposed links to organised crime. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Why the fascination with ultras? (01m 00s) • PART 2: The roots of ultra culture (10m 00s) • PART 3: The links to organised crime (15m 00s) • PART 4: Why do clubs give power to the ultras? (23m 00s) • PART 5: Ultras stopping play (32m 30s) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Goladsoe is brought to you by FOT Mob, the essential app for your match day experience.
0:07.0	Get live scores, detailed match stats, notifications for every goal and breaking news from more than 200 leagues and cups around the world.
0:14.6	Download it for free on Android and iOS now by searching for FOT Mob. That's FOTMOB. Never miss a moment with FOT Mob.
0:25.0	Muddy news, media. Lasso! So from shooters to flaming scooters. It's the movement the prosecutors couldn't
0:45.2	neuter. Ultras! Who are they and how do they hold so much power? In a special two-part
0:52.3	investigation it's into the parallel world of
0:54.9	Calchos rebels we go on Golazzo.
0:59.2	Golazzo! Golasso!
1:07.0	Ultra!
1:11.0	Ultra, croche Edelizia of the Italian game.
1:15.0	Where would culture be without the pride and passion of the ultraers?
1:19.0	But equally, what represents a bigger challenge
1:22.0	than the violence and power of their movement was to tackle this complex theme.
1:26.2	We drafted in a little help for this edition of Golazzo because alongside Gabrile Marcotti,
1:31.4	Hello, and James Horncastle.
1:34.4	Hello.
1:35.4	We're joined by the man who wrote the book on Altras.
1:38.6	Entitled Ultras, it is Tobias Jones.
1:42.2	Hello.
1:43.0	Lovely to have you on the line from Italy.
1:46.0	Ultra as I should stress, no relation to the new Netflix production.
1:50.0	No, it was an okay film.
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