Italy to bar soccer players from wearing No. 88, which has coded meaning (m.jpost.com)

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[-] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Are there actually players who are choosing it for that reason at all?

[-] Chup@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

At the end of the article:

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.

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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