Real men in Palermo wear pink. On Sunday, the Palermo “Rosanero” soccer club plays Genoa’s Sampordia soccer club. Forza Palermo!
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99 is Better than 30
It’s a big day today for Rosanero, Palermo’s Series A soccer club. They are (right now!) playing Cagliari (from Sardegna). Forward Andrea Belotti is one of the team’s most popular players. It’s important to know though, that after the advice from friends, he recently changed his number from 30 to 99–so this jersey might become…
Sweet Bitter
Palermo’s soccer team is officially called the Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo, but it’s affectionately known as Rosanero. They play at the Renzo Barbera stadium in Palermo, which seats more than 36,000 fans. The team will be playing against Roma on Saturday, when they’ll apply their sweetness and bitterness (“Rosa/Pink like a sweet, Nera/Black like…
Palermo Soccer Club: Rosanero
This is one of my prized possessions: my Palermo soccer team jacket. Soccer, or “calcio” in Italian, is Italy’s religion after Catholicism. I don’t say that lightly. In Sicily, there are many professional teams, but the top-ranked club from the region is the Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo (“Palermo” for short and “rosanero” for those…