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A hearty rendition of O Sole Mio was booming out in Italy’s dressing room when Prime Minister Romano Prodi came to congratulate the team on beating Germany. ”Even he joined in,” Fabio Cannavaro said. ”It was great.” For Cannavaro, hearing that Neapolitan ditty being sung joyously was particularly special.
The Italy soccer team will find themselves in familiar surroundings when they arrive at their World Cup accommodation in Duisburg, Germany. Antonio Pelle, an Italian expatriate from the southern region of Calabria, jointly owns the four-star Landhaus Milser hotel and has gone to great lengths to ensure his illustrious guests don’t feel homesick.