Euro 2024, Italy: all the stories behind the most mocking of the draws

Hand games, villain games. Draw for Euro 2024, someone had a lot of fun at the Frankfurt ballot box. It is time for courses and resorts, in the dense web of memory that mixes triumphs and falls in a plot that brings the past back to the surface, the one who smiled at us and the one who slapped us in the face. And then – as the soundtrack in these hours – that song – Battisti-Mogol, 1976 – that buzzes through our heads as we consider group C: again you, but we shouldn’t have seen each other again?

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