Serie A teams spent the first weekend of August bringing down the curtain on a campaign that launched 49 weeks ago
Calcio d’Agosto. The words translate simply to ‘August football’ but in the Italian sporting lexicon they have a specific place: deployed every summer to stop fans from getting carried away. Your team just beat Barcelona in a friendly, conceded six goals to a team of local lumberjacks at training camp, or even lost the league opener to newly-promoted opponents? Calm down, forget about it, it’s only ‘calcio d’Agosto’. The games that matter won’t come until the spring.
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