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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Nostalgia of Soccer (Football) Magazines Project-Part 13


In my continuing collaborative series with @1888Letter, I will ask the experiences of Brazilian Abilio Henrique Bottega.


Name: Brazilian Abilio Henrique Bottega
Twitter: @Futebolista2   https://twitter.com/futebolista2
Facebook : Abilio Bottega https://www.facebook.com/abilio.bottega
Website : A site for college work https://abiliobottega1.wixsite.com/udc2019
Personal Description: I'm Abilio Henrique Bottega, I'm 21 years old, Brazilian from Parana State, Santa Helena City, I'm a Journalism Student, with the dream of following in the sports area, I've worked on soccer websites and I'm currently a sports commentator in radios. I have been a collector of football stuff since I was 8 years old.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: At what age did you become a Football fan and how long after did you start reading Football Magazines?

Response:  I think since my birth, but I started to get more interested in 2005, at 7 years old, watching games from my heart team Grêmio, with my father, and the taste has been increasing, in the In 2006 I began to enjoy reading, in the World Cup I won an album of the World Cup, and after that I started to buy football magazine in the newsstand frequently like for example the magazine magazine, among other soccer publications in Brazil. at the age of 8 I was already reading about football.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: What was the first Football magazine you read as a new young fan of the game?

Response:  It was the Placar Magazine of November 2006, the one below.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Were there other local magazines that you also read?

Response:  Yes, Several of them, FUT LANCE
ESPN, GLOBO ESPORTE, GOL FC, TRIVELA, INVICTO, CHOCOLATE, GOLEADA, LANCE A +, Corner, Show de Bola, Los 3 Inimigos. also Club Magazines like Grêmio's 1903, Nação Tricolor among others.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Describe the general format of these particular magazines? What was your favorite section of these magazines mentioned?

Response:  Each magazine had a different format, some similarities could be noticed, but not so many in my view, I had no preference for section, the format of Chocolate Magazine was very similar to the Match of England. In relation to the sections, on the scoreboard I really liked Planeta Bola, Tabelão, Placarpedia. in the trivela had the section Peneira, where I talked about new talents of Brazilian and world football, in ESPN the section of the chronicles caught my attention, among others.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: football coverage mostly local or did international football news also cover significantly?

Response:  There was never only local coverage, always worldwide in all magazines. some focusing more but less but international football has always been the agenda here.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: In general, in a typical newsstand, how many options were available to read Football?

Response:  In my city at the time I believe that between 2 or 3 option, already in major centers from 3 to 6, but nowadays you have 2 or 3 publications, in the newsstands for Brazil is already a lot, due to the scarcity of the product.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Do you also remember foreign soccer publications on your newsstands? If so, did you read any?

Response:  In my city I believe that once came the Footballer magazine from Portugal, but it found a lot in big cities, today it is possible to find many foreign football magazines in tallow. yes already read, always when I think I buy are my preferences. I have Guerin, Four Four Two, Don Balon, Tiki Tiki, Futebolista, El Grafico, World Soccer, France Football, Olé, Historia Futbol y Estadísticas among others.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: I'll ask you all: one of my fondest memories as a young football fan was the anticipation of the day when new editions were available at newsstands. It was a weekly ritual that would stay with me for decades. In your own words, can you explain your memories of those days?

Response:  Every week I went to the newsstand to see what had come new, when I was younger always on the last days of the month I hoped that at any moment my scoreboard magazine would be in the mailbox. but you grow and things change.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Did you like your magazines for the scores / tables, etc., or did you prefer the writting? Or was there an evolution as you grew older and you began to appreciate deeper written analysis?

Response:  I like the part of the images, the infographics, the tables, but the part of the writing is essential, the journalistic writing.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: How has the quality of your favorite magazines changed (for better or worse over the years)?

Response:  I don't have a favorite football magazine, so all magazines are my favorite. As we are in Brazil the magazine that is most read here and Placar, I do a critical analysis about this magazine, because it lost much of its quality for example has wrong information, many cuts in sections, besides reducing the number of pages, and the worst of them doing a magazine with only one theme per month, abandoning that format that the magazine was general years ago, became a common magazine, knowing that it was one of the powers of world football magazines, becomes what and today, the course she has taken is unfortunate.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back, what was the best time for your favorite magazines?

Response:  I see Placar from 2000 to 2016, it was very good, in the various formats it has followed over the years.
El Gráfico from 1990 to 2016 was also a very cool phase.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: newspapers play an important role in the coverage of the game. Can you compare these daily newspapers compared to a magazine like 'PLACAR'?

Response:  In my view, I see as something different from another magazine after all and monthly, already the newspaper and every day, so the information that it will have will be totally fresh unlike the magazine that will only arrive a month after If the fact occurred, here in Brazil we have only one newspaper for 100% Esporte, which is the Diário Lance.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Has your taste for magazines changed over the years or do you still read your favorite magazines?

Response:  No more and more, nowadays I also read sports magazines and newspapers from all over the world through PDF.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back, do you think these magazines have kept you sufficiently informed about the events of the game as a whole?

Response:  Yes, in a time when there was no internet but now the information arrives in seconds.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Has your interest in reading magazines diminished with the advent of Internet channels and 24-hour sports television, or are you more interested in reading than ever?

Response:  Not on the contrary has increased more and more, but nowadays it is difficult to find in newsstands, but the PDF, and the tallow, saves a little this issue.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Are there any publications that have gone extinct that you miss?

Response:  Yes, several, among them, Fox sports Uruguay, Don Balon (Spanish), Shoot (England), El escorpion (Colombia), Futebolista (Portugal), El Gráfico, Solo Goles, Tiki Tiki (Argentina), from Brazil: Trivela, FUT LANCE, ESPN, Invicto, Four Four Two (Brazilian Edition).






Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Returning to my previous question about anticipating the launch of magazines. Given that many now receive their PDF magazines, do you feel that a level of enthusiasm has been lost as a result?

Response:  Yes, it is no longer the same as taking it in hand as it was previous years.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Thanks again for participating in the project.

Answer: I appreciate the opportunity to tell a little of the history of my 5000 Football Magazines, my passion is so great that in 2015 I created my own digital magazine, I didn't go further because I couldn't take it to the printout.



*********Note: This interview was conducted via ‘google translate’ in Portuguese. The content below shows Mr. Bottega’s responses in Portuguese.******


Twitter : @Futebolista2   https://twitter.com/futebolista2
Facebook : Abilio Bottega https://www.facebook.com/abilio.bottega
Local na Internet : Um site para um trabalho de faculdade https://abiliobottega1.wixsite.com/udc2019


 Biografia resumo : Sou o Abilio Henrique Bottega, tenho 21 anos,   Brasileiro do estado do Parana,  da cidade de Santa Helena sou  Estudante de Jornalismo, com o sonho de seguir na área esportiva, já atuei em sites de futebol e atualmente sou comentarista esportivo em rádios.  sou colecionador de coisas de futebol desde os meus 8 anos de idade.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: Com que idade você se tornou fã de futebol e quanto tempo depois começou a ler revistas de futebol?

RESPOSTA : Acho que desde o meu nascimento kkk, mas comecei a me interessar mais em 2005,  com 7 anos de idade, assistindo jogos do meu time do coração  o Grêmio, com o meu pai, e cada vez mais o gosto foi aumentando, no ano de 2006 comecei o gosto da leitura, na copa do mundo ganhei um álbum do mundial, e na sequencia comecei a comprar revista de futebol na banca com frequência como por exemplo a revista placar, entre outras publicações de futebol no Brasil. com 8 anos de idade já lia sobre futebol.   

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question:
 Qual foi a primeira revista de Futebol (Football) que você leu como uma nova fã jovem do jogo?

Resposta : Foi a​ Revista Placar de Novembro de  2006, essa aqui abaixo.
Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Havia outras revistas locais que você também leu?
 Resposta : Sim, Varias entre elas, FUT LANCE
ESPN, GLOBO ESPORTE, GOL FC , TRIVELA , INVICTO, CHOCOLATE, GOLEADA, LANCE A +, Corner, Show de Bola, Los 3 Inimigos. também Revistas de Clubes como a do Grêmio a 1903, Nação Tricolor. Entre outras.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Descreva o formato geral dessas revistas em particular? Qual foi a sua seção favorita dessas revistas mencionadas?

Resposta : Cada revista tinha um formato diferente, algumas semelhanças dava para notar, mas não era tantas assim ao meu ver, eu não tinha preferencia por seção, o formato da Revista Chocolate era muito parecido com a Match da Inglaterra. em relação as seções,  na placar gostava muito do Planeta Bola, Tabelão, Placarpedia. na trivela tinha a seção Peneira, onde falava sobre novos talentos do futebol brasileiro e mundial, na Espn a seção das cronicas me chamava bastante atenção, entre outras.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: A cobertura do futebol foi principalmente local ou as notícias do futebol internacional foram cobertas também de maneira significativa?

Resposta : Nunca foi só local a cobertura, sempre a nível mundial em todas as revistas. umas com enfoque a mais outras menos mas o futebol internacional sempre foi pauta por aqui.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: Em geral, em uma banca de jornal típica, quantas opções estavam disponíveis para ler Futebol?

Resposta : na minha cidade na época  creio que entre 2 ou 3 opção, já em grandes centro de 3 a 6, mas nos dias de hoje se tiver 2 ou 3 publicações, nas bancas pelo brasil já e muito, devido a escassez do produto.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: Você também se lembra de publicações estrangeiras de futebol em suas bancas? Se sim, você leu alguma?

Resposta : Na minha cidade creio que uma vez, veio a revista Futebolista de Portugal, mas encontrava muito em grandes centro, hoje e possível encontrar muitas revistas estrangeiras de futebol em sebos. sim já li, sempre quando acho eu compro são as minhas preferências. tenho a Guerin, Four Four Two, Don Balon, Tiki Tiki, Futebolista, El Grafico, World Soccer, France Football, Olé, Historia Futbol y Estadísticas. Entre Outras.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: Vou perguntar isso a todos: uma das minhas melhores lembranças como jovem fã de futebol foi a antecipação do dia em que novas edições estavam disponíveis nas bancas. Era um ritual semanal que ficaria comigo por décadas. Com suas próprias palavras, você pode explicar suas memórias desses dias?

Resposta : Toda semana eu ia na banca vê o que tinha chegado de novidade, quando era mais novo sempre nos últimos dias do mês esperava que a qualquer momento a minha revista placar estaria na caixa do correio. mas você vai crescendo e as coisas vão mudando.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Você gostou de suas revistas para as pontuações / tabelas de classificação, etc, ou preferiu a redação? Ou houve uma evolução como quando você envelheceu, começou a apreciar mais a profunda análise escrita?

Resposta : Eu gosto mas da parte de imagens, infografias, tabelas, mas a parte da redação e essencial,  a redação jornalistica. 




Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Como a qualidade de suas revistas favoritas mudou (para melhor ou para pior ao longo dos anos)?

Resposta : Eu não tenho revista de Futebol favorita, pra min todas as revista são favorita. como estamos no Brasil a revista que e mais lida aqui e a Placar, eu faço uma analise critica sobre essa revista, pois ela perdeu muito sua qualidade por exemplo  contem com informações errada, muitos cortes em seções, alem de diminuir o numero de paginas, e a pior delas fazer uma revista só com um tema por mês, abandonando aquele formato que a  revista era geral ha  anos atras, acabou se tornando uma revista comum, saber que foi uma das potências, das revistas de futebol mundial, se transforma no que e hoje, e lamentável o rumo que ela tomou.

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Olhando para trás, qual foi a melhor época para suas revistas favoritas?

Resposta : Vejo a Placar de 2000 a 2016, foi muito boa, nos vários formatos que ela seguiu ao longo desses anos.
El Gráfico de 1990 a 2016, também foi uma fase muito bacana.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: os jornais diários desempenham um papel importante na cobertura do jogo. Você pode comparar esses jornais diários em comparação com uma revista como 'PLACAR'?

Resposta : na minha visão, vejo como uma coisa distinta da outra a revista afinal e mensal, já o jornal e todos os dias, então as informações que ele vai ter vão ser totalmente fresquinha ao contrario da revista que só vai chegar um mês depois de ter ocorrido o fato, aqui no Brasil temos apenas um jornal destinado a 100% Esporte, que e o Diário Lance. 


 Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: O seu gosto pelas revistas mudou ao longo dos anos ou você ainda lê as suas revistas favoritas?

Resposta : não cada vez aumenta mais,  nos dias atuais  também leio revista e jornais de esportes do mundo inteiro, através de PDF.

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Olhando para trás, você acha que essas revistas o mantiveram suficientemente informado sobre os eventos do jogo como um todo?

Resposta : Sim, num tempo que não existia internet mas agora, as informações chega em segundos.

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: O seu interesse em ler revistas diminuiu com o advento dos canais da Internet e da televisão esportiva 24 horas ou você está mais interessado do que nunca na leitura?

Resposta : Não pelo contrario cada vez aumentou mais, mas hoje em dia e  difícil encontrar em bancas, mas o PDF, e os sebos, salva um pouco essa​ questão. 

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Existem publicações que foram extintas e que você sente falta?

Resposta : Sim, varias, entre elas, Fox sports Uruguai, Don Balon, Espanhol , Shoot Inglaterra, El escorpion Colombia, Futebolista, Portugal,  El Gráfico  Solo Goles, Tiki Tiki Argentina,  do Brasil Trivela, FUT LANCE, ESPN, Invicto, Four two versão Brasileira.

Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Question: Voltando à minha pergunta anterior sobre a antecipação do lançamento de revistas. Dado que agora muitos recebem suas revistas em PDF, você sente que um nível de entusiasmo foi perdido como resultado?

Resposta : Sim, já não e a mesma coisa de pegar ela na mão como era anos anteriores.


Soccernostalgia / @ 1888Letter Pergunta: Mais uma vez, obrigado por participar do projeto.


Resposta : Eu que agradeço a oportunidade de poder contar um pouco da historia das minhas 5000 Revistas de Futebol, a minha paixão e tao grande que no ano de 2015 criei a minha própria revista digital, não fui mais adiante por que não consegui levar ela para o impresso.







Friday, September 13, 2019

Nostalgia of Soccer (Football) Magazines Project-Part 12


In my continuing collaborative series with @1888Letter, I will ask the experiences of Mr. Miles McClagan. The twitter page of Mr. McClagan is a treasure trove of old Football Programmes and magazines mainly related to Scottish Football. He often shares these via flickr.


Name: Miles McClagan
Twitter: @TheSkyStrikers
Personal Description: St Mirren and Parma fan, collating as many football programmes as I can from e-bay and a big bucket, and sharing them with the world.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: At what age did you become a Football fan and how long after did you start reading Football Magazines?

Response:  I'd say around 6/7, my early football memories are the cup finals around 86/87 (particularly St Mirren winning in 87). I was living in Australia at the time, so magazines like Shoot! and Match were 3 months behind, but still worth getting. We kept up to date with a paper called British Soccer Weekly, so those 3 are my early childhood purchases.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: What was the first Soccer (Football) magazine that you read as a new young fan of the game?

Response:  It was definitely Match, when I was a kid I preferred that to Shoot! for some reason. I loved that Shoot! had the league ladders, but sometimes there would be a promised giveaway available to "UK readers only" where as that didn't happen with Match. When you are a kid, always want the freebies.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Were there other local magazines that you also read?

Response:  Not a lot in Australia, aside from the British Soccer Weekly newspaper. There wasn't a lot available beyond those 3 in my local newsagent. When I was in Scotland, I became absolutely obsessed with World Soccer - reading about a Colombia v Peru friendly, East German league action or whatever piqued my interest, particularly putting those teams edited into computer games. When I used to watch St Mirren, there was a newsagent in Paisley Gilmour Street that I used to stock up on - things like 90 Minutes Magazine and so on. The one thing I didn't really get into was Roy Of The Rovers, I think maybe the glory days had passed by then.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Describe the general format of these particular magazines? What was your favorite section(s) of these said magazines?

Response:  I think Shoot! and Match always were very kids styled - that's how I remember it anyway, they were the really colourful magazines for kids, the ones that sold themselves with big colour posters of Gary Lineker or whatever. My favourite thing about them was undoubtedly the freebies, rather than a section, collecting posters and league tabs. World Soccer, 90 Minutes and fanzines, which I moved to later, were more issues based - the world of soccer wasn't all good, some of it was crap! ID Cars! Boo! My favourite thing in World Soccer was the back section with team line ups and stats from international games. I think World Soccer was the reason I stayed a soccer fan to be honest, it helped me get into Parma, one of my favourite teams of all time.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Was the coverage of Football mainly local  British or was International Football news covered as well in a meaningful way?

Response:  The magazines in Australia were absolutely British focused - I know there were Greek and Italian newspapers etc, but they weren't readily available in Tasmania. Everything was focused on the First Division when I lived there - so aside from the 1 page of international news in Shoot!, there wasn't much news at all. It was only picking up World Soccer (and watching SBS when I moved back to Australia) that I got an appreciation for other countries.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: In general on a typical newsstand, how many choices were available for reading Football?

Response:  For choice, the best era was the early to mid 90s, once the Premier League era kicked in and you had that "football is cool" era, there was a LOT of magazine choice. Not sure how much of it holds up, but there was a lot of choices! In Australia, as I said, it was 3 magazines for a LONG time, and that only improved in the late 90s.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Do you remember foreign Football publications at your newsstands as well? If so did you read any?

Response:  Technically in Australia everything was foreign!
I remember going to Switzerland and coming back with an arm full of Swiss, German and French football magazines - I don't know why, I couldn't read any of them, but I had them for years, just purely for the pictures.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: I will ask this from everyone, one of my best memories as a young football fan was the anticipation of the day when new issues were available on newsstands. It was a weekly ritual that would stay with me for decades. In your own words, can you explain your memories of these days?

Response:  My main memory of this was unquestionably the little teaser at the back of the Magazine - and it'd just be something like "Next week! At home with Gazza!" but it'd be a great little hook until you get the next edition. I also remember just scanning the shelves for something new, and seeing that the World Soccer cover had changed from Chris Waddle to something else. I think that was my main memories, the visual change in cover, and how exciting it was to get a new copy, back in the days you had to wait for something!


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Did you enjoy your magazines for the scores/league tables, etc or did you prefer the writing? Or was there an evolution as when you aged you started to appreciate the deep written analysis more?

Response:  I'd say when I was around 11/12, around about the time of Italia 90, I started to appreciate writing and articles more. That was probably around the time Keir Radenege was telling me things were wrong with FIFA - wait, you mean things aren't all great! I was a football nerd for a long time, so World Soccer and 90 Minutes and magazines with writing like WSC were what I was into - I had a big fanzine phase, so I liked reading about old matches and history and what was going on with the game. I did like World Soccer for the international results, and Shoot! was great when I was in Australia to find out about, say, a midweek cup tie I had overlooked, but I was an articles reader. even as a kid.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: How has the quality of your favorite magazines changed (for better or worse over the years)?

Response:  I think Four Four Two is probably the one that's stayed consistent - you don't get a lot of content these days outside of that and World Soccer, which I understand, because of the Internet. I stopped really buying magazines in the early-mid 2000s, just purely because you had things like Shoot! aiming entirely for kids and filling the magazine with Rooney posters. I think the fact you can see everything now takes some of the gloss off a magazine too - you can stay informed on German soccer more easily. The thrill of finding a new team in a magazine is kind of gone. Also, you'd find a much broader scope of coverage in the early days - you pick up a magazine from the early 90s and there's be an article like "Falkirk - crisis time?". Now it seems to be 15 articles on Liverpool, so that's a really significant change.



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back what was the best era for your favorite magazines?

Response:  Early-mid 90s, there was just the right balance to quality writing/free stuff/funny stuff that that was the best era. I remember Total Football giving away a Cherry Red cassette tape, which was a collection of sound clips and songs, which was AMAZING - there was little bonuses they were giving away with magazines in those days that are above and beyond. I think just that you could find a magazine or publication for whatever your tastes were was pretty amazing - my trips back to the UK in the mid 90s, I'd come home with a suitcase full of magazines. Not sure how many of them would hold up today, but at the time it felt amazing.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: The daily newspapers play a big part in the coverage of the game. Can you compare these daily papers to the weekly/monthly magazines?

Response:  The big paper in Scotland was the Daily Record, which was a pure tabloid focused on the Old Firm. As a St Mirren fan, lets just say we didn't get a lot of coverage! I don't remember getting a lot of value out of Scottish daily newspapers, outside of scores, to be honest.

 Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Has your taste in magazines changed over the years or do you still read your favorite magazines?

Response:  I had my own page in Four Four Two for a bit, so I got back into reading that, but that's gone now. If I was going to read a magazine now, it'd be something like Flashbak, a retro magazine. I think that'd be something worth reading. I think a magazine that focused on issues like WSC did, say covered the game outside the top divisions and delved into what was happening at Bolton or Bury, that'd be something I would buy, but I'm not a big mag purchaser anymore.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back, do you feel these magazines kept you sufficiently informed about the events of the game as a whole?

Response:  I really do, I think the magazines kept me informed on life outside the week to week going to St Mirren games/watching the Premier League in Australia cycle. That was really the big thing I took from the magazine era, just broadening my football knowledge, and that there was a focus on life outside the big stars and top flight. I wish I'd discovered the "Look at Parma!" magazine earlier than this year mind you, that thing is gold....

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Did your interest in reading magazines wane with the advent of Internet and 24 Hour Sports Television channels or are you as interested as ever in reading?

Response:  A little, but I think it was more getting older and the general wane of magazines. Shoot! magazine for instance went 100% chasing kids as readers in the late 90s, so I think that was the main issue. Initially Sky Football was a part of buying more magazines, because having live football made you a bigger football fan, and that tied into buying more things and more merchandise but that waned over time.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Are there publications that have since been defunct that you miss?

Response:  Goal Magazine, that was my favourite magazine. It's funny though, because obviously nostalgia makes things better. I remember I bought an edition of Total Football from the mid 90s, which I loved as a kid, and the editor was talking about being a "wicked lad" and they were talking about ladettes and describing the types of female fans... Lets just say it doesn't age well... So there are some magazines I love/loved, but they were mostly of their time, so I'm not sure I'd still buy them now outside of Goal Magazine.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Getting back to my earlier question about anticipating the release of magazines. Given that now many receive their magazines on PDF, do you feel that a level of excitement has been lost as a result?

Response:  I definitely do, I think anticipation for something in general is lost, I can't imagine anyone know waiting a week for scores in general! A PDF just isn't the same as something printed, and never will be.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Once again thank you for taking the time in participating in this project.

Response:  Any time, any time!




Thursday, September 12, 2019

Nostalgia of Soccer (Football) Magazines Project-Part 11


In my continuing collaborative series with @1888Letter, I will ask the experiences of Mr. Davide Eskelund Rota. He is the author of “Danmark (1908-2018)” chronicling the history of the Danish National Team.


Name: Davide Eskelund Rota
Personal Description: I'm 50 years old. Former freelance journalist in Biella (Italy), living in Odense (Denmark) from 2013, where I work as a languages teacher



Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: At what age did you become a Football fan and how long after did you start reading Football Magazines?

Response:  5 years old and I started already reading Tuttosport (Italian newspaper) and Panini album of World Cup 1974.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: What was the first Soccer (Football) magazine that you read as a new young fan of the game?

Response:  Guerin Sportivo in 1976 (I was 7).




Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Were there other local magazines that you also read?

Response:  Intrepido, Sorrisi&Canzoni (music and tv), Topolino (Walt Disney) and others.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Describe the general format of these particular magazines? What was your favorite section(s) of these said magazines?

Response:  Guerin Sportivo A5 format, many color pictures and comics. Favrite section were international soccer and stats.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Was the coverage of Football mainly local  or was International Football news covered as well in a meaningful way?

Response:  Yes! Football Weekly, Shoot and World Soccer from 1982.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: In general on a typical newsstand, how many choices were available for reading Football?

Response:  At that time 3 newspapers (Gazzetta-Tuttosport-Corriere dello Sport) and Guerin.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Do you remember foreign Football publications at your newsstands as well? If so did you read any?

Response:  Yes! Onze and France Football when I learned french in 1979.





Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: I will ask this from everyone, one of my best memories as a young football fan was the anticipation of the day when new issues were available on newsstands. It was a weekly ritual that would stay with me for decades. In your own words, can you explain your memories of these days?

Response:  I remember I was waiting always 30 mins before the newspaper shop opened at 6 am! I was once punished at school for reading Guerin Sportivo during the lessons.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Did you enjoy your magazines for the scores/league tables, etc or did you prefer the writing? Or was there an evolution as when you aged you started to appreciate the deep written analysis more?

Response:  I enjoyed magazines for the scores/league tables at start and then an evolution to all.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: How has the quality of your favorite magazines changed (for better or worse over the years)?

Response:  Guerin fantastic from 1976 to 1982 then good but small format, good but monthly from 2009 and bad from 2014 to now with few readable articles.


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back what was the best era for your favorite magazines?

Response:  1977-79.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: The daily newspapers play a big part in the coverage of the game. Can you compare these daily papers to the weekly/monthly magazines?

Response:  Not at all!

 Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Has your taste in magazines changed over the years or do you still read your favorite magazines?

Response:  No, boring and following only rich clubs.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Looking back, do you feel these magazines kept you sufficiently informed about the events of the game as a whole?

Response:  Yes.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Did your interest in reading magazines wane with the advent of Internet and 24 Hour Sports Television channels or are you as interested as ever in reading?

Response:  It vanished a lot, of course.

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Are there publications that have since been defunct that you miss?

Response:  Alt om Sport (Denmark).

Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Getting back to my earlier question about anticipating the release of magazines. Given that now many receive their magazines on PDF, do you feel that a level of excitement has been lost as a result?

Response:  Yes, exactly. I only wish MORE and coverng longest periods (for example Onze and FF year by year).


Soccernostalgia/@1888Letter Question: Once again thank you for taking the time in participating in this project.