https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Italy#Regions
overperforming: Piemonte (7.2% pop share) , Toscana (6.23%)
underperforming: Campania (9.48%), Sicily (8.14%)
3 players from Trentino-Alto Adige is quite amusing too
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Grandissimo il gran visir di tutt li terun
We're massive 💪
Also 7th by number of capped players with 47; 10 more than Campania with 1/5 of their population.
Your biggest legend was from Napoli though ;)
Update after Italy-North Macedonia:
Lombardia 315 (Darmian)
Emilia Romagna 139 (Raspadori)
Liguria 59 (Chiesa, El Shaarawy)
What's up with the 3 bottom ones who are the players and why are they so few?
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)
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.
Nicolussi Caviglia is from Val d’Aosta & Calvin Bassey was actually born there, interestingly.
Ah true I forgot the Juve guy.
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.
I like how every country seems to have that region or province.
We have Drenthe.
Sinner
Actually because of him I recently discovered there's a German speaking region in Italy
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
Did they use birthplaces? Or how did they determine specifically where a player was from.
I unfortunately can’t read Italian.
Missing quite a few notable Argentinians and Brazilians.
Yes, not sure why you're downvoted. Also Uruguayans and Americans like Giuseppe Rossi. Plus some other players born in the former overseas territories.
Where my frattem laziali at?
I'm not familiar with my Italian regions but is this just another "people live in cities" or is this actually meaningful or adjusted
It’s basically like every map of Italy, where the north is over performing the south
I would love to see these data normalized by the population of each region.
Friuli's record for example is massive
Emilia Romagna wins the efficiency award
They forgot the region of Brazil
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
Who was born in England?
Simone Perrotta (48 caps, 2 goals) and Giuseppe Wilson (3 caps)
Giuseppe Wilson is a great name
Who are the Scots?
What’s Molise? I’ve never heard of that region /s
That 1 from Aosta is from Chievo legend Sergio Pellisier isn't it?
Has Molise legitimately never had a capped player or just not since Molise and Abruzzo split? Quite unbelievable that no player born in that geographical area has ever played for Italy, even if there are very few people there and they don't have much sporting culture or history.
This chart would look killer on a map.
Brazil above Calabria bro