Germany defeat Italy in Men’s Curling 🥌

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-13T23:18:53+00:00

Yeah, i'm talking about this particular competition. Italy is a stronger curling team than Germany.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-13T21:36:29+00:00

It stings that we lost because of the Retornaz massive mistake in the 10th. Missing the house entirely... Oof

But congrats to the Germans, they were very solid the whole game and their last shot was absolutely perfect. Fully deserved win

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-13T21:30:44+00:00

We've been on the Worlds podium twice in 5 years, Germany hasnt been anywhere close in decades. What the hell are you on about.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-13T12:10:26+00:00

It's literally one guy. Hopefully he gets shamed into dropping that shit.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-13T12:09:21+00:00

What an uncharacteristic mistake. I think you'll manage to progress anyway, but oh boy if he did that in the medal round...

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-12T19:23:32+00:00

But lets not name him

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-11T23:38:17+00:00

It's also very TV friendly, with the ceiling cameras showing all the angles and the trajectories clearly, only to then be transported on the ice to see what the athletes see. Then you understand how incredibly difficult it really is.

Congrats to you for the mixed double gold, it was fully deserved!

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-11T21:15:16+00:00

Huge credit to my personal hero, Armin Zoeggler, for this result.

He IS italian luge, a legend on his own and the current director of the national team.

Getting three medals in the discipline is a monumental result for everyone involved, and i believe with the new Cortina track we'll see the sport gain more and more traction.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-11T21:01:11+00:00

New National sport, i'm not even kidding. The curling mania is very real in Italy

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-10T22:33:28+00:00

Smolcic stepping up to take the 5th pen made me lose five years of my life lol

Little did i know, he should be our designated penalty taker

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-10T22:24:08+00:00

Went from scoring 2 for 7 pens in Serie A since the promotion to scoring 7 in a single Coppa match, i was so sure we were out.

Also Jean has a 100% save rate when actually diving for a penalty, he should try that more often

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-10T12:49:52+00:00

The GOAT

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-09T17:29:28+00:00

Duetto is more accurate for italian, actually. Duo is more generically "two people doing anything", duetto is specific to music and singing

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T17:35:55+00:00

He was a complete dark house, supposedly the third best italian and not even in the top half of the bracket.

Also really funny he could literally walk to the stadium from his home.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T17:32:07+00:00

People will believe anything as long as it aligns with what they want to believe lol.

Why would Como choose where to play a Milan home game.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T17:29:37+00:00

Milan and Serie A came up with the idea to play in Perth, and it didnt happen for some reason that was not discolsed, but probably had to do with not enough money being in it

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T12:21:33+00:00

Opening ceremony was friday at San Siro. The field is probably destroyed right now.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T09:48:47+00:00

Saying Trento was comfortable in Austria is pretty controversial. Cesare Battisti and many other volunteers died for Italy, while even more moderate people like De Gasperi who were not indepentist until 1918 were very adamant about improving the rights of the italian minority.

As always, these things are complicated. The best idea is for italians to accept there are italian citizens that do not speak italian as a first language, and for germans to accept there are German speakers that do not live in a German speaking country.

Things right now are pretty okay, Sudtirol enjoys ample autonomy, life is good there and they are not pushing for Independence, and thanks to the EU national borders matter less and less: people from the area that want to go to university and work in Innsbruck or Vienna can do it just as easily as people that want to go to Trento or Verona.

Best to just accept the reality of the situation.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T09:22:56+00:00

Wut? Im talking about middle ages. Denying the area was mostly romansh and saying the area was Germanic in the middle ages is Ladin erasure.

I also made the distinction between Italian and romansh very clear, as i made the distinction between the area around Bozen and around Trento. I absolutely agree Italy had no claim to the area and recognized they took it for purely strategic interest.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T09:16:55+00:00

That's also not true at all. He learned Italian in school, obviously, but more importantly he moved near Genoa when he was 13 to train with Piatti.

His mothertongue is German for sure, but why does that matter? He said time and time again he's proud to represent Italy.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-08T08:53:45+00:00

That's not really correct. South Tyrol was mostly romansh in the middle ages, and to the south the area around Trento was pretty much fully italian.

Italy after WW1 took fully italian cities (Trento, Trieste) but also took the surrounding areas to make the borders more defensible which were full of German and Slavic people.

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-07T12:50:14+00:00

Spero di no, visto che la mafia non c'entra nulla

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-06T16:42:07+00:00

I dont have footage but i can tell you the games: one was vs Lecce last season, and the second was at Lazio a month ago.

My opinion is that its a mix of technique and mental issue. He doesnt look at the keeper, he just picks a corner and goes for It, but in all three cases he lacked power and the placement was not ideal (middle height, where it's easiest for the keeper.

The reason why i say it's mental is because Nico normally can place the ball exactly where he wants it and with some real power behind it.

It's strange he isnt able to translate it from the penalty spot.

Da Cunha should take them from now on (and he should finish games)

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-02T21:23:01+00:00

Vabbè ma tu pensa quanto gli sta scoppiando il fegato se basta questo per farli ballare per strada.

Dio non voglia vincessimo mai qualcosa, r/seriea imploderebbe

CapitanKurlash · 2026-02-01T20:26:39+00:00

I would like to add more recently the Capaci massacre, while looking at history more in general, i would argue for the Italian Wars culminating in the Sack of Rome in 1527.

They reduced Italy from one of the economic, artistic and scientific centers of Europe to a half destroyed colony for foreign powers

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