According to Sports Illustrated, two players in Italy’s top league, Serie A, currently wear No. 88: Lazio’s Toma Bašić and Atalanta’s Mario Pašalić.
I just looked up both on Wikipedia and nothing weird or regarding Nazi connections mentioned there, so maybe just a coincidence to get a nice looking 2-digit number, not knowing the code behind it.
Idk how italy works on the matter but as a German it'd be highly unlikely not to know these.
Since Italy was part of the axis it feels like people would be aware.
For the uninitiated H is the 8th letter and HH is a shorthand for the hail. 88 is the dogwhistle
Also to mention that how a professional footballer is branding themselves is almost as important as how they are playing right now - so I'd guess every single footballer in one of the top clips in the top 5 leagues has a dedicated employee whose sole job it is that the decisions that player makes have a good public image depending on what the player wants.
You can't tell me that any professional footballer doesn't have advisors that are aware of stuff like that
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GuyDudeman@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 3y
Are there actually players who are choosing it for that reason at all?
Chup@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y
At the end of the article:
I just looked up both on Wikipedia and nothing weird or regarding Nazi connections mentioned there, so maybe just a coincidence to get a nice looking 2-digit number, not knowing the code behind it.
shapesandstuff@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
Idk how italy works on the matter but as a German it'd be highly unlikely not to know these. Since Italy was part of the axis it feels like people would be aware.
For the uninitiated H is the 8th letter and HH is a shorthand for the hail. 88 is the dogwhistle
hannes3120@feddit.de · 5 pts · 3y
Not to mention Lazio being known for having ultra groups that are borderline neo-nazi...
hannes3120@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Also to mention that how a professional footballer is branding themselves is almost as important as how they are playing right now - so I'd guess every single footballer in one of the top clips in the top 5 leagues has a dedicated employee whose sole job it is that the decisions that player makes have a good public image depending on what the player wants.
You can't tell me that any professional footballer doesn't have advisors that are aware of stuff like that
hannes3120@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
Isn't Lazio known for their extremely far-right Ultras?
Might not be intentional from his side but he for sure knew that that would make his shirt popular in certain parts of the fanbase...
zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Is this another one of those insipid “Let’s Go Brandon” things?
Lumidaub@feddit.de · -2 pts · 3y
... since when do numbers in not-handegg-football go that high...??
rsn@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Generally they don’t, which makes it more ‘intentional’ when they do. Usually the numbers are <30.