# An Italian guide to sportsmanship **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 19, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-italian-guide-to-sportsmanship/114876 "2002-06-19T15:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-italian-guide-to-sportsmanship/114876/41 "2002-06-20T21:06:57Z")
Follow up shows that international reaction to the comments is pretty pro-Korea: [http://sports.yahoo.com/m/wcs/news/ap/20020620/ap-wcup-skorea-ahn.html](http://sports.yahoo.com/m/wcs/news/ap/20020620/ap-wcup-skorea-ahn.html) I’m not going to get into a debate over soccer strategy, but I would like to give Cosmi and Gaucci the benefit of the doubt and attribute their silly comments to a heat of the moment reaction. Of more concern however I would think would be that if Ahns safety if he were to go back to Italy, and how other players might treat him. As for making $48 an hour, now that the guy is a national hero, something tells me that as a player and in endorsements, he should live a pretty good life in Korea ---
**Author:** ![sc913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sc913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sc913)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-italian-guide-to-sportsmanship/114876/42 "2002-06-20T22:45:56Z")
[Ahn says he was sacked before the golden goal](http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2002/story/0,11224,740873,00.html) So it was just a case of an idiotic club chairman who wanted to see his name in the papers. -Salil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-italian-guide-to-sportsmanship/114876.md?page=2)