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Press review update: The New York Times

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Almost one month ago The New York Times published a reportage about Parma Calcio renaissance. The New  York  Times. Someone said we were going to disappear and be forgotten.

We list the article in our “Nobody will ever talk about Parma anymore” section dedicated to fundamental articles and podcast about Parma Calcio.

Here is Rory Smith‘s reportage with Nadia Shira Cohen pictures, a recap of our recent history with focus on new era that just begun:

🗞️ The New York Times – Back From the Dead, Parma Embraces a Soccer Renaissance by Rory Smith @RorySmith (with Nadia Shira Cohen pictures), Aug 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/sports/soccer/parma-serie-a-italy.html

 

 

Nobody will ever talk about Parma anymore

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“Nobody will ever talk about Parma anymore” so they said on the other side of the river Enza, Reggiana supporters. We don’t call them Reggio Audace, in respect for their history (whatever it is) because football is made by fans, not by chairmen, televisions or courthouses.

Well, they was wrong.

Here and AT THIS UPDATED LINK you find a list of articles or podcasts about us. Something you can not miss at all and that can help you remember part of our history, the feeling of being in Tardini Curva Nord, the taste and the atmosphere there was and there is in Parma.

–  Mani Djazmi podcast from World Football program on BBC World Service, where we undeservedly participated.

🎧 World Football PODCAST (aug/sept 2018):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsyx/episodes/downloads

🗞️ Mani Djazmi artiche on BBC Sport (aug/sept 2018):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/45364161

🗞️ Our quick report with some pictures here (aug/sept 2018):

https://parmafansworldwide.com/2018/08/31/hello-from-bbc/

 

Golazzo “The totally italian football show” podcast by James Richardson, Jimbo, with Gabriele Marcotti and James Horncastle bring us back to nineties and recap our recent history with some interesting stories and some original historical audio.

🎧 GOLAZZO “The rises and falls of Parma” (may 2018):

https://audioboom.com/posts/6835731-the-rises-and-falls-of-parma

– Very complete and accurate article about our recent history on These Football Times

🗞️ THESE FOOTBALL TIMES “Alessandro Lucarelli: Parma’s selfless hero who took them from the fourth tier back to Serie A” by Gary Thacker @All_Blue_Daze (sept 2018)

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/09/07/alessandro-lucarelli-parmas-greatest-legend-who-took-them-back-from-the-brink-in-the-fourth-tier-to-serie-a/

 

Give me sport – givemesport.com – Paul Roger Mitchell article about a well-remembered episode during our tough failure season. We put the link to our post as introduction to Roger article, that you find linked there.

🗞️ GIVE ME SPORT – “Fan ownership could solve Serie A crisis after Parma debacle” by Roger Paul Mitchell (2015)

https://parmafansworldwide.com/2018/08/01/461/

 

– On 90s era

🗞️ THESE FOOTBALL TIMES – “The insatiable rise of Parma in the 1990s” by Luca Hodges-Ramon (November 2016)

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/11/22/the-insatiable-rise-of-parma-in-the-1990s/

Interesting Podcast about Parma Calcio

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As we already reported soon we will list in a specific section of the website all the interesting articles and podcast about Parma. Like this one, that we suggest you not to miss even if was broadcasted in may:

Golazzo “The totally italian football show” podcast by James Richardson, Jimbo, with Gabriele Marcotti and James Horncastle bring us back to nineties and recap our recent history with some interesting stories and some original historical audio.

🎧 GOLAZZO “The rises and falls of Parma” (may 2018):

https://audioboom.com/posts/6835731-the-rises-and-falls-of-parma

Thank you, guys

 

Osvaldo Casanova on Parma Calcio

Osvaldo Casanova Parma Calcio prints – http://www.parmafansworldwide.com

We already talked about him while presenting our logo, the Hidden Crusader, because he is the author of the original illustration from which was created.

Osvaldo Casanova is an italian illustrator, proud fan of LR Vicenza Virtus, that works mainly but not exclusively on football theme.

Here you can see the three complete works that Osvaldo dedicated to Parma Calcio in last three years and that we asked him to print for us. They represent the most iconic moments of our past and recent history and are absolutely stunnnig, in our opinion.

If anyone is interested in having a copy too, can contact him directly at info@thankyoufortheroses.com

Before doing it we strongly suggest to wonder around his website and his facebook pages: you will discover some illustration we don’t hesitate call them masterpieces.

Now we all are waiting for more history to be written and, of course, illustrated.

Osvaldo Casanova on Parma history

 

Osvaldo Casanova dedicated to record 311st Lucarelli official match with Parma Calcio
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Osvaldo Casanova on 2016 and 2017 most iconic Parma Calcio moments

History is a door

We know that all of you when go – or when will go – to Parma bring back home some memorabilia. The ticket is not enough and the Official merchandise neither: you need something more personal. Something that would tell you about that specific moment: Curva Nord Boys fanzine, stickers, advertisement poster with a Parma logo on, etc. because these object would represent a piece of history, a piece of your history in Parma.

Objects are guardians of our memories, especially for away fans like us that can’t follow the team every week, but once or twice a year.

Walking in Collecchio Training center or in Tardini restricted areas is an experience, and who had the luck to do it can confirm it. Think about how many players and coaches walked there, changed before a match, talked, fought, had fun.

Think about all the players and coaches that spend part of their life there: how many times they changed in Tardini locker room ? how many laughs or fights did that walls see?

In Centro Coordinamento Parma Clubs – CCPC offices, the little yellow building at the left of Tardini Gate that some of you started to know because is the place where we met with all the abroad fans before the matches, there is one of these “memory objects”. It is a door. That door was threw away during some Tardini locker room renewal and people of CCPC found it and decided to use it in their office, creating specifically a wall for it.

That one, was the old Parma locker room door and on it you can read the signatures of some of most famous names in our 90s history. Some of them are clear: Taffarel, Brolin, Buffon, Di Vaio, Simplicio… If that door could speak!

To be honest inside that place there are plenty memory objects and most of all there are people that are the real Parma Calcio memory guardians, and they are more than kind. If you go there for visit in Parma bring and italian dictionary and knock at their door. If they have free time they surely be happy to tell you some story about Faustino Asprilla or Hernan Crespo. And we are not talking about some newspaper gossips, but about real life stories because the majority of these champions were – and still are -for real part of Parma family and memory guardians are there to testify it.

These Football Times talking about Parma Calcio

We would like to report a very complete and accurate article about our recent history on These Football Times written by Gary Thacker @All_Blue_Daze , that we would like to officially thank.

Soon it will be listed on a specific section of our website that we are preparing dedicated to Parma Calcio best reportages and articles.

“Alessandro Lucarelli: Parma’s selfless hero who took them from the fourth tier back to Serie A”

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/09/07/alessandro-lucarelli-parmas-greatest-legend-who-took-them-back-from-the-brink-in-the-fourth-tier-to-serie-a/

Waiting for someone making a movie about Parma Calcio 1913, enjoy these words and realize that history can’t be deleted, and it is all to be written.

Manuel has a message for you

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credit: http://www.parmacalcio1913.com

Manuel Scavone goes to Lecce on loan for one year. It would be too romantic to keep all the historical crusaders of our recent history, but it is not possible. Even if players like him wrote our history with important goals like in Lega Pro play-off finals.

Scavone special link with Parma is underlined by his words before leaving, that the players asked to spread to all Crusaders fans:

“With these words I would like to greet and thank all people that are writing me… I didn’t expect to receive so many care messages! I’m proud of what we could do in these years and I’m happy to have been part of it! I will remember for all my life Florence and Spezia days… Bye to everybody, Manuel”

This is the Parma we like to tell.

Good luck, Manuel!

#thisisparma

Your Parma Kit – Quarter Finals

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graphics from: “La maglia nel cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni and graphics project by Studio Makia srl

 

Still running on our facebook Page the poll to choose your favorite historical Parma kit.

This is the selection of kits that passed the first round and this is the new schedule for Quarte Finals:

1919-20 vs 1951-42

1981-82 vs 1989-90

1992-93 vs 1994-95

1998-99 vs 2001-02

Go to this link – www.facebook.com/parmafansworldwide  and vote. Note that there a re 4 different post, so scroll down!

We present this game in collaboration with Geo Edizioni and Makia.it, the editor and the graphic designer of fundamental two volumes archival book on all Parma kits since beginning to restart in Serie D:

La maglia nel cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni and graphics project by Studio Makia srl

If you are interested in the book you can find it here and on Geo edizioni page. The suggestion is to write directly to them to ordine@bibliotecadelcalcio.com for all the info or ask us, as usual, and will be your neutral intermediary.

#lamaglianelcuore #parma1913 #bibliotecadelcalcio #micheletagliavini #carlofontanelli #geoedizioni #makia.it #weareparma #thisisparma

You choose Parma Kit!

 

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http://www.parma1913.com

 

Appreciation to “Black Phoenix” new 3rd Parma kit just arrive worldwide… Well done, Erreà! If you lost it check this link out  and shame on you 🙂

We would like to suggest you a joke over first and second kits – that still have to be presented – in collaboration with Geo Edizioni, the editor of fundamental two volumes archival book on all Parma kits since beginning to restart in Serie D:

La maglia nel cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni and graphics project by Studio Makia srl

If you are interested in the book you can find it here and on Geo edizioni page. The suggestion is to write directly to them to ordine@bibliotecadelcalcio.com for all the info or ask us, as usual, and will be your neutral intermediary.

On our Official Facebook page you will find in next hours a poll over historical kit to choose the two that you like to most. That ones will be Parma next official kits… of our heart 😛

Go to this link – www.facebook.com/parmafansworldwide–  like Geo Edizioni and Makia.it page and… VOTE!

We want to thank you so much Geo Edizioni, Studio Makia and authors Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini for the collaboration.

#lamaglianelcuore #parma1913 #bibliotecadelcalcio #micheletagliavini #carlofontanelli #geoedizioni #makia.it #weareparma #thisisparma

New Parma kits will be like…

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From: “La maglia del cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni – graphic project by Studio Makia srl

We don’t have a crystal ball to know the future but we can play trying to guess if next kit will be inspired by some historical kit Parma used in its history.

Past years, expecially for third kit, Erreà and Parma decided to get inspired by particular jersey, who knows if also this year will be the same?

Having a look to fundamental two volumes archive book “La maglia del cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni and graphics project by Studio Makia srl, we can get some great suggestion on future kits.

If you are interested in the book you can find it here and on Geo edizioni page. The suggestion is to write directly to them to ordine@bibliotecadelcalcio.com for all the info or ask us, as usual, and will be your intermediary.

Geo edizioni is also the publisher of “Parma 100. Tutto ma proprio tutto sui crociati“.

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From: “La maglia del cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni – graphic project by Studio Makia srl
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From: “La maglia del cuore. Parma, I colori della passione” by Carlo Fontanelli and Michele Tagliavini, Geo edizioni – graphic project by Studio Makia srl