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Spaghetti Bowl, American football bowl game played in Florence, Italy, on 1 January 1945. In Italy, the first American football game took place in Genoa on 27 November 1913 when the teams of the USS Connecticut and USS Kansas faced each other, two of the 14 ships of the American Great White Fleet temporarily docked in the Ligurian port during an exercise cruise in the Mediterranean Sea.
Aldo Donelli (1907–1994), American football and soccer player, and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. In 1941, he made American football history becoming thus far the only man to simultaneously coach both a National Football League team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and a collegiate team, Duquesne Dukes. The latter would finish that ...
The Italy national American football team, nicknamed the Blue Team is the national American football team for Italy. They have been successful, having won the European championship three times, [ 1] and been runner up three times. They won the 2021 IFAF European Championship, its third European title, having also won in 1983 and 1985.
The Seamen Milano were founded by Sergio Galeotti, a shareholder of the "Giorgio Armani SpA" on October 27, 1981. [1] In the 1980s they were one of the most successful Italian teams collecting two Italian Super Bowl appearances in 1987 and 1989, with an overall record of 68 wins, 4 draws and 39 defeats in 111 games played.
Nick Alfieri. Nicholas James Alfieri (born May 27, 1992) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in the German Football League. [1] He holds both U.S. and Italian citizenship, and was on the roster of the Italy national American football team for the 2021 European Championship.
The Legnano Frogs established in 1977, are an American football team from the city of Legnano, in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in Lombardy, Italy. It has black and silver as its social colors, while it has a frog as a symbol, hence the name of the team. In 2023, The Frogs will be back playing at the top level of the Italian Football League IFL.
Rhinos. The Rhinos Milano are an American football team based in Milan, Italy. The team was founded in 1976 (first team in Italy) and won the Italian Superbowl championship in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990 and 2016. The Rhinos play in the Italian Football League (formerly called Series A) the highest level league in Italy.
Over 2.6 million [1] Italians and Italian-Americans live in the greater New York metro area, with about 800,000 living within one of the five New York City boroughs. This makes Italian Americans the largest ethnic group in the New York metro area. Fiorello La Guardia was mayor of New York City 1934-1946 as a Republican.