• Guzuzu_xD@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What’s up with the 3 bottom ones who are the players and why are they so few?

    • belokas@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You should look at the map. Val d’Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige are small underpopulated alpine regions and they mostly produce skiers and winter sports athletes, or cyclists. Molise is also small but on the Apennines, lots of sheeps. From Val d’Aosta the only good player was Sergio Pellissier, from Trentino there’s Pinamonti now and I can’t remember any other players. By memory I don’t remember any players from Molise, I doubt more than a dozen have made it to the serie A.

    • DeathStar13@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Molise it’s a meme in Italy for it’s irrelevance to the Italian landscape (be it political, cultural,sportive,…) and people meme it doesn’t exist and that it’s actually fictional like Atlantis and similar fake regions

      Trentino-Alto Adige is the part of Italy that includes South Tyrol and athletes there are more focused on winter sports, some exceptions exist (Sinner with tennis but even him was a grand slalom winner before choosing tennis over skiing) but are rare.

      Valle d’Aosta is a fully mountainous region (between France and Switzerland) and has the lowest population in Italy because of its size and rurality. Athletes are rare and like Trentino usually going to practice winter sports instead of footbal.

      • jugol@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Sinner

        Actually because of him I recently discovered there’s a German speaking region in Italy

    • Massimo25ore@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The last four regions are the least populated, the last two are the smallest. Basilicata has quite a number of matches because of the unforgettable Simone Zaza (18 with two goals scored)

    • bobsgonemobile@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My father was born on the border of Abruzzo and Molise. There is nothing there, even today. Small little towns and lots of sheep, mostly. But funnily enough, it’s becoming a tourist destination because of how ‘traditional’ it is so that’s something

  • belokas@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    We’re massive 💪

    Also 7th by number of capped players with 47; 10 more than Campania with 1/5 of their population.

  • Massimo25ore@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Update after Italy-North Macedonia:

    Lombardia 315 (Darmian)

    Emilia Romagna 139 (Raspadori)

    Liguria 59 (Chiesa, El Shaarawy)

  • animbicile@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Did they use birthplaces? Or how did they determine specifically where a player was from.

    I unfortunately can’t read Italian.

    • belokas@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yes, not sure why you’re downvoted. Also Uruguayans and Americans like Giuseppe Rossi. Plus some other players born in the former overseas territories.

  • noUsername563@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not familiar with my Italian regions but is this just another “people live in cities” or is this actually meaningful or adjusted

    • DrDrozd12@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s basically like every map of Italy, where the north is over performing the south

  • jackn3@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would love to see these data normalized by the population of each region.

    Friuli’s record for example is massive

  • Qwqqwqq@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I am too lazy to sort these countries into regions

    Country Games Goals
    Argentina 240 69
    Brazil 170 21
    Scotland 9 7
    USA 30 7
    Uruguay 49 6
    Germany 21 4
    England 51 2
    South Africa 3 2
    Switzlerland 34 2
    Libya 71 1
    Paraguay 2 1
    Algeria 11 0

    I used the Wikipedia article linked in the thread