Who are the biggest Italian side ?
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and three defeats.
Must be gutting.
Who are the biggest Italian side ?
I always thought that Juve were the ‘plastics’ club in Italy.
Weird, I though if you underestimated the underdog Italians it was certain doom?
All 3 Italian teams didn't have a lot of luck that's for sure.
As for the biggest club, it's Juventus by some distance. Their home attendance is rarely the weekend highest and their stadium has a fairly modest capacity. Even within Turin they are probably only marginally more popular than Torino. However they have an incredible nationwide following. Similarly their worldwide appeal amongst people of Italian descent/origin is way bigger than any other club. For these people they are almost seen as a symbol of club football in Italy.
After that both Milan teams have a similar sized following with Napoli probably on par these days.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/i...-a/attendances
This seems to suggest the two Milan teams are well ahead of Napoli. I can't imagine Napoli have anywhere near the nationwide fan base those two will gather as well.
Roma didn't deserve any luck playing that awful Mourinho style of fouling, play acting and intimidation.
Inter played well, in the loosest of terms, and their plan almost worked.
I didn't see the Fiorentina WH game so can't comment but I suspect, as with West Ham in the EPL, they are well down the pecking order in Serie A.
The Italian sides over the recent decades have become a poor second even third behind the Premiership & La Liga and their teams are littered with their cast-offs.
I'm not unhappy to see all three of their teams lose.
This was from a survey taken 3 years ago.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...italy-by-club/
I'm guessing the recent success of Napoli has increased their appeal. Juve clearly miles ahead of the pack
No, like I said previously their attendances are fairly moderate, around 40,000. Their ground only holds 43. The Milan Clubs and Napoli draw much bigger crowds. I'm guessing the survey is based on people who identify them as their favourite club plus fan clubs worldwide.
Popularity based on historical success when football had mass appeal post war to the 1960s. Although unlike Man Utd, Juventus have pretty much always been successful
A few years ago I started a thread showing (in my opinion), the 10 most famous clubs in Europe, listed either because of their success or just as important the magic their name conjures up. There were 3 Italian clubs; Juventus, AC Milan and Inter on the list.
For the record and in no particular order the other 7 were:
Man Utd
Liverpool
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Ajax
Benfica
Funnily enough this list has not altered one bit in over 20 years, even though there are other teams like Chelsea, Porto, Dortmund etc that have been quite successful in this period. They just lack that bit of magic that the names of the above teams are able to convey. All subjective of course.
Manchester United had that big support after the Munich Air disaster which was shocking
My old dear would look out for man United results but had no idea who the players were
Maybe juve had this sort of historical rump of support ?
The 1968 European Cup win and best etc gained them loads of fans