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Hey, everyone!
OL Reign shared a pair of kits after I ranked this year’s new NWSL kits. They don’t provide much visual interest, so I can’t say I’d rank them very high.
@OLReign dropped primary and secondary jerseys for the 2021 @NWSL season.
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) April 15, 2021
Both feature the @BlackFutureWA, Washington’s first all Black-led philanthropy created to ignite Black generational wealth, health, and well-being pic.twitter.com/h4DMiMNaVo
Ramble of the Day
Transfer talk is inherently interesting, and even changing the tiniest variables a little bit can up the entertainment factor. Take Corriere dello Sport’s piece that Érik Lamela may be bound for Italy, which we covered on the site yesterday. What did not make it into our piece was the language of the report, as translated by Sport Witness:
That’s according to Corriere dello Sport on Thursday, who explain the idea ‘was born in the middle of spring’, with his entourage already having held chats with Milan ‘and in the last few days, they have had very intense contacts with Napoli’.
There are not one, but two instances of extremely dramatic language in that one paragraph! I had no idea if this drama comes solely from the translation, or if it came straight from Corriere dello Sport. Luckily, Cartilage Free veteran and current writer of The Hiatus Vincent Ricco can make his way through Italian, and here’s how he describes things:
That’s what those words literally translate to. The language just makes it seem more dramatic because the press doesn’t write like that in the English language but it’s pretty straightforward.
I think it’s pretty easy to interpret what Corriere dello Sport is saying: Napoli recently came up with the idea to sign Lamela, and the two sides are very seriously considering the move and discussing it. It’s very interesting to know, though, that the perceived drama is not implying anything like that — it’s just an Italian sports writer feeling the freedom to more expressive.
What can I say? This is the type of type of technical thing, as both a native English speaker with wide-ranging curiosities and a sports writer, that I find deeply interesting.
tl;dr: I learned that sports writers in Italy feel the freedom to write more expressively thanks to a transfer rumor about Érik Lamela.
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Links of the Day
The entire Hertha Berlin team is in quarantine after four people tested positive for COVID-19.
Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang contracted malaria while on international duty last month.
NISA side Chattanooga FC signed a wide-ranging partnership with Bundesliga side Wolfsburg that includes kit sponsorship and launching a women’s team in 2022.
A longer read: Susie Rantz on OL Reign’s holistic commitment to sustainability, from reducing use of single use plastics to the food they eat for Sounder at Heart