Defeat is done! They should be treated with Sticks and go home in Stretcher. Verratti the World Cup, but we won’t be there. I’m Emerson all the limits of a team Immobileof a team Badge in name but inconclusive in fact. One shot Mancini sends us home: Italy with fruit, torn apart by the Macedonia.
That’s right, dear readers (reader friends of ComicAstri), who are still in shock and are struggling with an unexpected recalculation of holidays. You had thought about it in time to carve out (like us, after all) a few days of domestic vacation, between 21 November and 18 December of this year, the start and end date of the World Cup. But while until six days ago it seemed that everything should go as planned, tonight’s football match between Turkey and Italy sadly sanctions the uselessness of all the arguments made so far. Goodbye World Cup, bye bye days of anticipated absence from work due to “podomachia” (according to the definition of football in Breriana’s memory), see you in 2026, which is like saying: we fast for a few years; we abolish holidays; we allocate the entire salary to charity …
But the tragic topicality looms, and we sadly have to start again from here: Vladimir Putin, the one who unleashed this senseless and cruel war against Ukraine, continues to push his country into the shadow of a progressive and dramatic international isolation. In the current state of things, Putin has not only antagonized the whole West, but he collects (he who knows how much complacency) day after day an endless series of gauntlets.
Musk vs Putin. Elon Musk was the first. The patron of the Tesla (self-driving car) and of SpaceX (space missions for all) in terms of eccentricity, it is second to none, since it has long accustomed us to its phantasmagoric shots of… tesla (and not only). Well, Musk is not only an eclectic inventor, but, as many do not know, also a great martial arts enthusiast. Do you mean that, having said that, he was piqued to challenge Putin himself, inviting him to get on the mat, to wear judogi and to try his hand at a judo fight (a specialty in which the Russian president has always boasted of being a sample). The fate of Ukraine is up for grabs.
How will it end? Will we attend this meeting? Mhhh, very difficult, In fact, Dmitry Peskov, an energetic spokesman for the Kremlin, hastened to reply: “President Vladimir Putin does not need these muskular tests to show the world his greatness”.
Morandi vs Putin. Gianni Morandi, a lifetime of being sent by his mother to get the milk, has developed over the years a real passion for running, in particular for the marathon. Even today, at the age of 78, he does not give up on trying his hand at the most classic of distances (42 kilometers and broken). Even now, after the accident a year ago and the recent operation that holds him with his hand bound and “hanging” from a floor lamp, he does not give up his daily jogging, just to keep fit. And like a good leftist democrat – as a kid he spent Sunday afternoons distributing the Unity whoever entered the Aurora cinema of his country, Monghidoro, in that of Bologna – could not help but support the resistance of the Ukrainian people against the invader. So, taking paper, pen and pentagram, he wrote to Putin in rhyme, challenging him to run the most classic of marathons: the Tsar with the shirt of Russia, him in a yellow-blue T-shirt and shorts.
Will the paths of the two ever meet? Totally unlikely. Dmitry Peskov, with a decisive attitude (whether it is Elon Musk or Gianni Morandi, he always has a mustache, of Stalinist resemblance), ran in front of the journalists to declare mockingly: “I appreciate the songs of Mr. Morandi, but I invite him to weigh his words: against Putin … not even one in a thousand can do it! ”.
Prodi vs Putin. Romano Prodi is well known for a certain bonhomie combined with a manifest competence in economic matters; as is his passion for cycling. Being by nature less combative than Musk, and not wanting to step on his friend Gianni (Morandi), but aware of the fact that at the time he was also an adviser to the Russian government, our mortadellone he is trying to solve the Ukrainian question by throwing an olive branch to the Russian president (if he doesn’t recycle it, the Olive tree, who else? And besides, Easter is near…). Knowing that he could not compete with the Tsar in judo (Putin is a black belt tight at the waist, Prodi is a belt widened by good and fat Emilian cuisine), the Professor invited the Tsar to get on his bicycle and climb the Stelvio, a feat that he managed recently to complete, despite the age (81 years). “Whoever gets to the top first – he suggested with his well-known persuasive tone, like a hot tortellino in broth – decides the fate of the conflict”.
Will Putin hit the pedals with a bottle full of vodka? Almost impossible. The impassive Dmitry Peskov, as omnipresent as ever, rushed into the press room as a consummate sprinter to retort laconically: “Dear Professor Prodi, cui Prodest?”.
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