Why do the Italian and Japanese football teams play in blue, when there is no blue in their flags?
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Maybe because S.Korea wear red
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For sports like football and basketball, it's critical that the two teams look different. Imagine the chaos if every football player wore a white jersey-- the quarterback would never know who to pass to, the linemen wouldn't know who to block, etc. That's why each team has to have at least two different jersey colors.\n\nIt's not that important for baseball, since it's pretty obvious who is on offense and who is on defense. It's just been baseball tradition that the road team wears some kind of gray uniform. That dates back to days when laundry facilities on the road were a little suspect, so teams wore gray unis to hide the dirt a little better.
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Every star a national team has on his uniform indicates one time they have won a World Cup.  Thats why Italy used to have in its uniform and under 3 stars a circled space for their 4th star which by the way hasn't arrived yet. Brazil has the most with 5 stars.  Note that this only applies for national teams.  Every country has their rules about the stars for their clubs, for example in Italy a star means 10 Serie A Scudettos or League Championships.
1183108
its Italian for "Blue", because the team color is blue.
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LOL..nice dreaming! all the italians can do is fake injuries and whine to the ref's so the give other players yellow cards. They play like a bunch of little girls. Italy will not win the world cup, I'm sure of that, there's better teams, who play their heart out there and deserve it...unlike the whining bunch.
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It's the official color of their football (soccer) jersey.
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It means it is not a competitive match with league points or progression in the next round of a Cup competition.  All they are playing for is pride!
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It is called Tactics and italy chose not attacking, but rather looking for the mistake of the other team to do a fast attack or shall I call it Counterattack so as to get the other team out of their balance.
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Actually all answers so far are wrong you should look in Europe...yes there is only one Italy!!!The real question is what year did Brazil NOT play ? Check the teams that competed in the France 1938 World Cup...I doubt you will find them unless history has changed over night!!!
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3 questions in one lol.\n\n1.) pigment\n2.) the discolored space is blue and depending on weather/time of day, it will change colors\n3.) Yes. U never asked why.\n\nMy question is how is this a soccer related question lol?
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It's when the ball is being played. If it goes to another player on the same team and that player is past the opposition players then it's called an offside.\n\nOr say you have the ball and you pass it to your teammate but your team mate is ahead of all the players on the other team, thats when the assistant referee raises the offside flag.
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Because the winning goal is scored due to the awarded penalty that last 5th minute.\n\nIf this penalty kick was awarded earlier in the game, there might be lesser unhappiness among non Italian supporters now. \n\nBesides... the fall by Grosso does look rather exaggerated after watching its repeats... I'm an Italian fan but it does look debatable, the fall and PK.\n\nHow does one judge who SHOULD win or who doesn't deserve to win? Very often a stronger team may fail to score while the weaker team might have other forms of advantages that helped it to score. This applies to almost all scoring games.
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None whatsoever. I asked a similar question, and one answerer suggested that fifa like it the way it is because it enables them to favour certain teams and put it down to the ref. This does kinda make sense.
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OK hope you can understand me,  my english is no good \n\nThe blue represents the Kingdom (the Royal Family color) \n\nWhen italy was a kingdom rule by the Savoy royal family the color (blue) was selected to be the color for the national team (in all sports) since then the people call it the Squadra Azzurra, later when mussolini took the power he wanted to change the color but when he knew that he has the support of the royal family the color was maintain \n\nwhen the Italian Republic was form (the royal family was exiled because they supported mussolini) the senate wanted to change it but it couldn´t
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No, the players from the other team cant, but the ones from the same team can. That is why in the corner, there is always a midfield or a forward in the second post.\n\nYou are also not allowed to touch the flags from the corners.
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Azzurro is sky-blue in Italian. The color of their jerseys.\nSingular male is Azzurro. \nIt turns into Azzurri for plural male.\nThat's why the team is called the Azzurri and one player Azzurro.
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Australia will wear their away strip which is blue,, I understand that when when conflicting colours occur the "A" team wear their own colours,, in this case Brazil is the A team that is they were drawn before Australia in the pool