Because they are Italians, of course, they scream while singing, they scream in movies, they scream while buying tomatoes, they scream after getting the ball, before a dangerous corner, after a dangerous corner, and because someone hit, or because someone didn't, and they scream while arguing with the referee, or because they won a cup The world, or because they lost a friendly match, and yelling because the coach is bad and is not fit to lead a school team, or because the coach is the greatest coach in the world.
In fact, the question seems very silly, because among all of the above, shouting while singing the national anthem is the only logical thing.
In 2003, a researcher in sports psychology, Sandy Wolfson, conducted a study of the effect of the element of the earth on the results of football matches.
In general, the advantage of hosts in football matches rests on three elements: the audience, the trouble of traveling for guests, and familiarity.
The latter is what Wolfson was trying to study in isolation from the rest of the workers.
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Wolfson took samples of the players' saliva before several matches for analysis, and discovered that they record higher levels of testosterone - the male hormone - when the players are about to receive a guest at their stadium, and even if the audience is not present, and the matter is explained by the phenomenon of "area of influence" or "Territoriality". In males of animals, their blood sees high levels of the same hormone when they are attacked by other males within their sphere of influence.
Mostly, this was what prompted the Italians to scream in this way at the opening of the current Euro version against Turkey at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
It is true that the audience was present - albeit partially - but there is no other explanation for the matter.
Goodbye, then, see you in an upcoming report.
not satisfied?
This is a surprise, but frankly expected.
First, because no one screams like the Italians when they play at home, not the English, not the Portuguese, not the Dutch, not even the Latins.
Secondly, because the Italians shout in all stadiums and in all matches, in the presence and absence of the audience.
And thirdly, because the Italian women’s team does the same thing when the national anthem is played as well, so unfortunately it cannot be explained by testosterone. (3)
Also, testosterone does not explain why many people get excited at home with Italians singing their national anthem. For example, Ryan Conway, editor of The Athletic, says that "Canto degli Italiani," or "Anthem of the Italians," as the Romans call it, makes him proud to be Italian. Of course, you are now wondering: How can Ryan Conway be Italy? Which is a reasonable question because Conway is not really Italian, but he maintains that the anthem makes him feel that way. (4)
This enthusiasm and intensity makes Conway, and many others, feel that they are about to witness an extraordinary match, and promises them an artistic and football excitement equivalent to that which they witness while singing the anthem, and if you add to this the fact that players in most European teams do not sing their national anthem with such enthusiasm, or do not sing it at all. Launching in the case of France, for example, you will understand why many admire the Italians, simply because they flirt with our nationalist tendencies, which we feel are disappearing little by little in the era of globalization and identity fluidity.
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The Italians singing the national anthem is pure passion.
Every.
Single.
Time 👊 pic.twitter.com/WusHyAhW71
— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 16, 2021
This is beautiful, wonderful, logical and realistic, but the most logical and realistic is that the reason why the Italians got so excited during their national anthem was - surprisingly - their national anthem itself.
The Italian players singing the national anthem 🎶 🇮🇹
The passion >>> #EURO2020 @ESPNFC pic.twitter.com/l04fY1EqZt
— ESPN (@espn) June 11, 2021
Like all enthusiastic national anthems, the "Canto degli Italiani" was written during wartime as a call to the people of the country to take up arms and fight battles, which is why the Italian anthem is also known as "Fratelli d'Italia" or "Brothers of Italy", which is the most common name among Italians. .
Written by the Italian poet Goffredo Mameli in 1847, so it is also known as the "Inno di Mameli" or "The Mamelli Hymn", which was not very popular at its time and did not produce any instrumental that you might have heard of, and died two years after writing the anthem.
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The first surprise here is that most musicians and composers in Italy consider the anthem to be poor in terms of composition and lyrics.
We will tell you about the reason, of course, in a few lines, but it is worth noting that they consider him enthusiastic as well, because of his military rhythm, and also because of the last syllable distinguished by the famous "Crescendo" technique in opera, where the rhythm rises and accelerates to the enthusiastic end with the word "Si!"
Or "yes" in Italian.
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The second and most important surprise: no one understands him, not the Italians or anyone else.
Goffredo Mammelli was a poet of limited talent, if he could be described as talented at first, and perhaps what he wanted to do was to combine the history of the wars of the Roman Empire into one short piece, so it came out with this thinness and this ambiguity.
Perhaps you are not surprised, then, when you know that Umberto Bossi, the Italian politician and former leader of the "Lega Nord" party that seeks the independence of northern Italy, had sought to change the anthem several times after it was officially adopted in 2005, for one simple reason from his point of view, which is that Nobody understands his words anyway!
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Still only one way to sing the Italian national anthem 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/3C5NONoaAu
— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 20, 2021
Of course, you can point to Bossi’s malicious intentions motivated by his political agenda, but the fact is that the anthem is not really understood, and in fact, if the Italians really understood the anthem, they would not be accused of racism immediately, simply because the Italian anthem, like the anthems of most colonial countries, carries racist hints that refer to the eras of slavery. in Rome.
By the way, this is the same reason why the immigrants of France, led by Karim Benzema, have always been silent during their national anthem “La Marseillaise”, precisely because of the house “Let impure blood drown our fields” in the repeated clip, which many interpret as a reference to slaves And all those who do not belong to the nobility.
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“Italy brothers, Italy has woken up
She put a Shibio helmet tied to her head
Where is the victory?
Let her bend
For the Lord has made her a handmaid for Rome!”(8)
If you're one of those people who didn't understand anything from this passage, you get Umberto Bossi's point, but let's try to understand anyway.
Italy has woken up, it's okay.
Who is Shibeo who put his helmet on her head?
This is probably a reference to Publius Cornelius Cipio Africanus, the Roman emperor who defeated the Carthaginian Hannibal and took control of North Africa and much of what is now Spain, and his helmet is that distinctive Roman helmet with a red crest.
So far everything seems understandable.
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Confusion begins in the third house.
Mamelli, the anthem's author, decided to use an overly complex rhetorical analogy without telling us about it.
Some claim that the only logical explanation for the third and fourth verses is the newly omitted fifth verse of the anthem, in which Mamelli says: “Let her head be shaved,” and it seems that he likens the victory itself to a slave woman subject to Rome, and of course she is shaven-headed because this was what distinguished Slave women about the "free" in ancient Rome.
The Italians and national anthems.
No-one does it better.
🇮🇹🎤 pic.twitter.com/gxhe8NejdT
— Football Factly (@FootballFactly) June 11, 2021
The confusion continues in the second stanza when Mammelli talks about unity among the Italians, saying:
From the Alps to Sicily
Lignano is everywhere
Everyone from Verrocchio..has the heart and the handملك
Children in Italy are called Balea
All trumpets sound like prayers.”
The first house seems to be the real reason for Bossi's objection, calling for secession, as Mammelli explicitly calls for the unification of the Italians from the far north to the far south, and then talks about the Battle of Legnano for an incomprehensible reason, simply because it was not an important battle in the history of Rome, and the number of its soldiers did not exceed About six thousand soldiers on both sides, and it is distinguished only by the presence of the famous Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the head of the Roman army.
Mammelli gives us more puzzles for no apparent reason.
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What is worth mentioning here is Mammelli's reference to Francesco Verrocchio, who was one of the most famous mercenaries in the sixteenth century, fighting for those who pay the most, and spending most of his life fighting the Italians themselves!
Now comes the best part of the anthem ever, which may be why the Italian players are so excited.
The passage is direct, clear and frank, bearing no hidden sign, rhetorical image, or complex name of Roman warlords, and can be easily understood by anyone.
"Let's unite..we are ready to die
We are ready to die.. Italy has called us
Let's unite..we are ready to die
We are ready to die
Italy has called us
Yeah"
If you haven't noticed, the Italians are ready to die because Italy has called them, and when this stanza comes after the first stanza in which Italy wakes up from its slumber and enslaves victory, the musical upsurge becomes truly epic.
🔊🇮🇹 Italy players belting out the Italian national anthem, in Rome, before the opening game of #EURO2020
Hook.
It.
To.
My.
Veins.
🎥 @ESPNFC #ITA #Azzurri pic.twitter.com/uHcJ5Z46Vd
— Joe Prince-Wright (@JPW_NBCSports) June 11, 2021
Of course, we would understand it if the words were poor from your point of view, Mamili - as we said - was a humble poet whose vision was incapable of words.
The clearest example of this is his threat to Austria in another passage that she will suffer “burns in her heart” if she “drank the blood of Italy.” This is not a serious threat, as you can see, and the Austrians were often not worried, in fact, it seems that the most Mammelli describes here is The usual heartburn after a heavy meal.
Well, we are done, and this is our only interpretation of the Italians singing their anthem with this unique enthusiasm, which is not a convincing explanation as you can see, but you can use it in the negative by exclusion, meaning that if you think that the Italians scream during their anthem because it is an exceptional piece of poetry and music, this is not true Probably, there is another reason we failed to find, but you can't blame us for trying.
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