Calcio's VirtualTourist Home Page

Hi, and welcome to a special-page here at VT! I hope all of you will be interested in reading my texts, but I think that it will be an advantage for you if you're really interested in the wonderful sport football. Or soccer as they call my favorite-sport on the other side of the ocean.

Finally some updates again, was just about two years since the last time... Now, will try to be better writing at this page, and put up more cities/clubs as soon as possible!

2005 gave me some new football experiences, with the Champions League-final in Istanbul being the worst, and finally seeing Camp Nou in Barcelona the best. Other trips were Zagreb, Agadir (Morocco) and Skien (Norway).

Now when it's a new year I've started to prepare for the World Cup. Next planned football game abroad is Milan-Roma in May.

Here you won't find much information about churches, restaurants, boatrips or other things. Instead I hope you'll find everything you need to know for your next trip to a football-stadium....

I'm a crazy guy who just loves to visit new countries, cities, and footballstadiums. I have seen football in 14 different countries, and more is hopefully to come.

I'm planning to put up information on all the stadiums I have been to, with "good things to know" about how to get there, how to get the tickets for the game, where to sleep after the game, if you should say hi or just run away from the local supporters, the atmospere at the games and much much more.

As I wrote above, this page is a bit special, but I hope you'll enjoy this too.

If you instead are looking to a page a bit more "normal", just go to Henrik's page and you'll find my other page here at VT, with more "normal" information.

At both pages I'll try to update as much as possible as soon as possible, but since I don't have a "fastweb"-connection anymore it takes years just to upload a picture... But I'll try...

Have a great trip!

As this is a bit of a special-guide I thought it might be a good idea to explain how it's works...

Under "must see activities" you'll find information about:
* The club, the history, famous players and good things to know about that club of the town.
* The stadium, what's it called and how many spectators it can take, and where you'll find the best seats for the best price.
* The supporters. The name of the different groups, where they stand in the stadium, if they create a good or a bad atmosphere during the games.

At "Warnings and dangers" you'll find information about:
* The rivality between supporters. Normally it's totally safe to go a game, but in some occasions the rivality between the two groups could be so strong it's dangerous to go to these game. It could be a derby, it could be a match between two teams from two cities that have a strong rivality.
* To light this up a bit I'll also try to write down the other groups that the supporters have a friendship with. As I wrote above, normally it's totally safe to see a football-game!

Under "general tips" you'll find information about:
* Where you can find tickets for the games. At what cost, if it's often sold out, and where you can find tickets in that case.

Under "shopping" I'll write information about where you can buy souvenirs from the club and supporters. Both fake and official stuff.

Under "restaurants" you'll find information about you can eat before the game. It could be a luxury restaurant close to the stadium, or just a wagon that sells you a sandwich for 2,50 euro.

Under "transportation" you'll find information how to find to the stadium. By bus, car, tram or by foot.

To start with, the list of the cities I'm planning to make a football-page about:

Italy:
Milano

Ancona
Udine
Brescia

Verona
Torino
Genoa
Piacenza
Parma
Bologna
Como
Pro Sesto
Pisa
Florence
Biella

Sweden:
Göteborg
Malmö
Stockholm
Degerfors
Örebro
Helsingborg
Halmstad
Trelleborg
Uddevalla
Ljungskile
Enköping
Norrköping
Borås
Trollhättan
Växjö
Kalmar
Sundsvall

France:
Marseille
Bordeaux
Lione

Germany:
Gelsenkirchen
Bremen
Hamburg
Hannover
Cologne
Berlin
Dortmund

Spain:
Tenerife
Valencia
Barcelona

Belgium:
Brussels

Holland:
Rotterdam
Eindhoven

Denmark:
Copenhagen
Herfölge
Nordsjaelland/Farum
Aalborg

Norway:
Oslo
Skien
Tonsberg

England:
London
Manchester
Liverpool
Bradford

Portugal:
Porto
Coimbra
Lissabon
Leira
Aveiro

Finland:
Helsinki

Croatia:
Pula
Porec
Zagreb

Ireland:
Dublin

Northern Ireland:
Derry

Coming soon... ;-)

Football facts about me:
Favourite team: IFK Gothenburg (Sweden), AC Milan (Italy) and Chelsea (England).
Best games ever seen: Milan-Real Madrid 02/03 in the Champions League, Sweden-Bulgaria in the Euro2004 and IFK Gothenburg-Manchester United 94/95.

First games I saw: Indoor tournament in Gothenburg 1984, swedish league-final IFK Gothenburg-Orgryte 1985, IFK Gothenburg-Barcelona 1986.

Number of games I've seen: Have no idea, guess around 500-600 since 1993.

Number of games I've seen in 2006: Around 40 (friendlies, Swedish cup, Swedish league, World Cup, Uefacup).

Favourite football country: Italy.

Favourite supporters: Milan's.