“Luca’s grandfather (whoI hope is known as Nonno Spaghetti) gave him his first sky-blue Lazio jersey when the boywas just a toddler. Luca, likewise, will be a Lazio fan until he dies.“We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and evenour religions, but we can never change our team.”By the way, the word for “fan” in Italian is tifoso. Derived from the word for typhus. In otherwords—one who is mightily fevered.”

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