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... the Italian National team. Personally I was lucky to visit various countries of the Italian Peninsula. What was clear from my journeys abroad was the union that the Italian National team of Football created throughout Italy. From Milan to Palermo, across various other important cities like Florence, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Italy was united by one common denominator, being known as Football. So people, who were previously separated by the prejudice of racism, embraced themselves after one of the goals of Roberto Baggio in the world cup of 1994. At the same time they tried to console each other, when the same Baggio missed, probably the most important penalty of his life in the final lost against Brazil. What this small encounter wanted to show is that, sport serves as a unifying act, Everyone feels involved thanks to sport, even the same people who for some reason or another felt not involved ...