Sports+-+tennis,+football,+and+swimming+(Sara,+Mirko+&+Massimo+B.)

In the 80s tennis became popular in Italy. It became a sport mass thanks to big champions, for example Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci and Antonio Zugarelli. The Coppa Davis is the biggest World competition for men’s national teams. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and it is played every years. Instead, the Fed Cup is the most important tennis tournament for women’s national teams. There was a difference between Coppa Davis and Fed Cup: The Fed Cup lasted only two weeks, while the Coppa Davis lasted some months. Recently the rules changed and now the Fed Cup lasts some months as well. During these weeks, the most important world champions are participating to a international tournament that takes place every year, in May, in Rome. This year there have been some celebrations because Filippo Voandri, an Italian player, defeated Roger Federer, the number one of the tennis world ranking, in the quarter finals. There hasn’t been an Italian player in the semifinals for 29 years.
 * TENNIS** **(Sara)**

I would like to tell you about football. In Australia football is a sport with oval ball. It’s right? In Europe football is a sport with a rounded ball that called “calcio” in Italian. How call you this sport in Australia? In 2006 Italy won the World Cup in Germany. In that night, in all Italy’s street there was a great party: the people danced…the car-horn broke for excessive use… We were all crazy and happy.
 * FOOTBALL** **(Mirko)**



Football or “calcio” is the most popular sport in Italy. There are many divisions, “serie A” division is the most important. I’m a fan of Juventus Football Club. The greatest team in Italy. My friend Sara might be not agreement with me because she’s a fan of Milan, but she don't understand anything about this sport. Juventus, Milan and Inter are the most important teams in Italy and every years they contend the title called "scudetto". The winner team is going to have next season the "scudetto" on jersey.




 * SCUDETTO**


 * [[image:juventus_delpiero01.jpg width="173" height="159"]] “Scudetto on Juventus jersey”**

Unfortunately Inter won this season, but only because Juventus and Milan had a penalization for problem with sport law. Therefore the victory was very easy for Inter.

THE SWIM IN ITALY IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SPORT. MORE PEOPLE GO TO A POOL TO LEARN SWIMMING AND TRAINING EVERY YEARS. IN THE LAST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2007, MADE IN MELBOURNE, THE ITALIAN SWIMMER WON SOME MEDELAS, SEVERAL WERE BRONZE, SEVERAL WERE SILVER AND ONLY ONE WERE A GOLD MEDAL. IN FACT, IN ITALY THERE ARE A LOT OF STRONG SWIMMER AS MASSIMILIANO ROSOLINO, LUCA MARIN, FEDERICA PELLEGRINI, FILIPPO MAGNINI, LORIS FACCI AND A VERY GOOD DIVER AS TANYA CAGNOTTO. WE HAVE ALSO A GOOD WATER POLO TEAM, IT'S SURNAME IS SETTEBELLO FORM THE MAN AND SETTEROSA FOR THE WOMAN. FOR ME THE STRONGHEST ITALIAN SWIMMER IS FILIPPO MAGNINI. HE WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE 100m FRONT CRAWL.
 * THE SWIM (Massimo)**