According to Sports Illustrated, two players in Italy’s top league, Serie A, currently wear No. 88: Lazio’s Toma Bašić and Atalanta’s Mario Pašalić.
I just looked up both on Wikipedia and nothing weird or regarding Nazi connections mentioned there, so maybe just a coincidence to get a nice looking 2-digit number, not knowing the code behind it.
Idk how italy works on the matter but as a German it’d be highly unlikely not to know these.
Since Italy was part of the axis it feels like people would be aware.
For the uninitiated H is the 8th letter and HH is a shorthand for the hail. 88 is the dogwhistle
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I just looked up both on Wikipedia and nothing weird or regarding Nazi connections mentioned there, so maybe just a coincidence to get a nice looking 2-digit number, not knowing the code behind it.
Idk how italy works on the matter but as a German it’d be highly unlikely not to know these. Since Italy was part of the axis it feels like people would be aware.
For the uninitiated H is the 8th letter and HH is a shorthand for the hail. 88 is the dogwhistle
Not to mention Lazio being known for having ultra groups that are borderline neo-nazi…
Isn’t Lazio known for their extremely far-right Ultras?
Might not be intentional from his side but he for sure knew that that would make his shirt popular in certain parts of the fanbase…