Italia e Spagna

Italy beat Germany in the semis of the Eurocup! So happy!! My 2 favourite teams to the final. It should be interesting to see who wins! They played in the group play rounds of the tournament, and 'hanno pareggiato' - it was a draw (1-1), so it doesn't give much of an indication of who will win. 

Would like to Spain win it just because no team has won the Eurocup - Wold Cup - Eurocup back to back to back-- but really I will be happy with either team being crowned 'campione'. =)

~Ciao Bella~

Eurocup update

No biscotto for Italy! They made it out of their group because Spain beat Croatia. Very exciting! I look forward to Spain's match with France and Italy's match with England!!

I'll try to get back into studying Italian. I have a lot of school work right now that needs to get done though, so it is not at the top of my list of priorities right now.

~ciao bella~

biscotto

I had a great birthday- or compleanno!


I haven't been able to practice Italian as much as I would like right now, but I did learn a new idiom thanks to the Eurocup.


Italy, Spain, Croatia and Ireland are in a group together. Italy has drawn with Croatia and Spain, so they have 2 points in their group. Spain and Croatia have both drawn one match and won one match, leaving them both with 4 points. I was looking at an Italian newspaper that said Italy is waiting for the buscuit...I was very confused! So I did some research.


In football (soccer) biscuit -biscotto- means to cheat of fix a match. Apparently if Spain and Croatia draw their match, each scoring 2 goals, they can knock Italy out of the tournament. The term either comes from horse racing when horses were given drug-laced biscuits to alter their performance. Or it could be like an icecream sandwich where the 2 cookies (Spain and Croatia) can push in to squeeze out the icecream (Italy). 


Learn something new everyday! We will see if the biscotto happens tonight!