#Team Racing Gubbio

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A Monza esordio con due piazzamenti per il pilota eugubino Mariani in Formula 4

Esordio nell’automobilismo macinando chilometri ed esperienza come da obiettivo principale: Lorenzo Mariani ha centrato il target e completato positivamente con tempi in continuo miglioramento e due piazzamenti il suo primo “racing” weekend in assoluto. Il pilota eugubino classe 1999 ha affrontato un battesimo “di fuoco” nel primo round della Formula X Italian Series 2023 su un circuito…

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Wanting a Child

Jay Deshpande

Here in California, we can drive through any

landscape, field, flower, forest, all in reach,

at sunset, affording not to notice the exhaust

left in our stead. A daytrip takes us to the edge

of the continent, leaning out over some precipice,

looking back. We are home by dinner, the house

soft color, where our bodies move through dark’s

thin language and something calls, urgently, from after.

Some days I don’t know if it’s fair of me, built

as I am, a man, unable to carry every inch of an idea

into the future. In Gubbio, each spring brings

the same pageant. Up hills of the medieval town,

up streets obscured by screaming crowds, three teams

of men in bright blouses tumble upward with their tribute.

Up switchbacks, up stone roads smoothed by centuries’

tradition. In the middle of May they come this way, to carry

the wooden paraphrase of candles on their sweating,

rainbowed shoulders. Each four meters tall, an emblem

of a patron saint. The same one wins each year.

All Umbria comes to watch this alias of a race.

But the exertions are real: the men intent, although

they know what little their ardor comes to. They pass

the title on through blood. Each time, the cheers

subside when they touch the basilica. They set

the good things down. What honor it must be

to carry something so beyond you up into

the sky, up toward the face of god. What work

your faith must take. What flagrancy.

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Wanting a Child

Jay Deshpande

Here in California, we can drive through any landscape, field, flower, forest, all in reach,

at sunset, affording not to notice the exhaust left in our stead. A daytrip takes us to the edge

of the continent, leaning out over some precipice, looking back. We are home by dinner, the house

soft colour, where our bodies move through dark’s thin language and something calls, urgently, from after.

Some days I don’t know if it’s fair of me, built as I am, a man, unable to carry every inch of an idea

into the future. In Gubbio, each spring brings the same pageant. Up hills of the medieval town,

up streets obscured by screaming crowds, three teams of men in bright blouses tumble upward with their tribute.

Up switchbacks, up stone roads smoothed by centuries’ tradition. In the middle of May they come this way, to carry

the wooden paraphrase of candles on their sweating, rainbowed shoulders. Each four meters tall, an emblem

of a patron saint. The same one wins each year. All Umbria comes to watch this alias of a race.

But the exertions are real: the men intent, although they know what little their ardour comes to. They pass

the title on through blood. Each time, the cheers subside when they touch the basilica. They set

the good things down. What honour it must be to carry something so beyond you up into

the sky, up toward the face of god. What work your faith must take. What flagrancy.

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POSTCARD 05 @ Gubbio

Further up from the hamlet of Baucca, I turned off the main road and headed into the hills on a small winding country road, travelling in and out of woodland, over open spaces through Pietralunga, down into a valley and straight into the medieval city of Gubbio.

Gubbio's origins are ancient as far back as the Stone Age. It was conquered in 2ndC BC by the Romans and at the time the city was named Iguvium. Around 20BC the Roman's built an amphitheatre with large blocks of limestone. Although now in ruins it remains the second-largest amphitheatre surviving in the world. There's enough of its original structure to imagine what it might have once looked like.

What brought Gubbio to prominence was the 1000 knights that joined the First Crusade into the Holy Land. It is said they were the first to penetrate the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem when the city was seized in 1099. A powerful city, Gubbio spent the following centuries in various wars with surrounding neighbours until it was rolled into the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.

Around the 15thC, a tin-glazed pottery industry known as maiolica emerged giving rise to Giorgio Andreoli, a renown and important potter of the Renaissance period. Giorgio became a citizen of Gubbio and became famous for inventing lusterware, metallic glaze that gave an iridescent effect, using red and gold. He was assisted by his brothers, Salimbene and Giovanni and upon his death the work was continued by his son Vicenzo.

To reach the Sant'Ubaldo Basilica on top of Mount Ingino, I had to take a cable car that is, if you could call it that. The contraption was a cross between a bucket and a topless bird cage. There was only space for two people, standing up with the railings at chest level. At 2,953ft (900m) above ground level, I was thankful it was only a short 6 minutes ride.

The Basilica is set atop a plateau with views across the entire valley and the Apennine Mountains beyond. It houses the body of 12thC Bishop Ubaldo Baldassini, patron saint of Gubbio, in a glass sarcophagus that is kept atop the main altar on a marble plinth. There is an adjacent convent and both were built in the early 1500s. Once richly decorated in Baroque style, much of it was destroyed after the bombings of WWII. Choosing to hike back down, I followed a zig-zag trail through forestry straight into town.

This trail is used each year on May 15th, St Ubaldo Day, for a running event called Corsa dei Ceri (the Ceri is a heraldic emblem on Umbria's coat of arms). The race consists of three teams each dressed in yellow, blue or black tops with white pants and red belts and neckbands. Each team represents one of three saints: St Ubald, St George or St Anthony the Great. The race requires the teams to run up the mountain to the basilica carrying a statue of their saint, mounted on a wooden octagonal prism. The statue measures 13ft (4m) tall and weighing 617lb (280kg).

Legend has it that around 1220, St Francis of Assisi was living in Gubbio where a fierce wolf appeared, terrorising the humans by attacking their livestock at first and later moving onto humans. Apparently no weapon was able to destroy it and those who tried were devoured by the wolf. With the city under siege, St Francis took leave to meet the wolf. As soon as the wolf saw him, it charged with its jaws wide open. St Francis making the sign of the Cross, demanded the wolf stop attacking at which point the wolf ceased his attack and docilely trotted up to St Francis laying at his feet, putting its head in St Francis' hands. A pact was made between St Francis and the wolf, that if it was fed by the people of Gubbio, it would cease any further attacks. The wolf lived for a further two years in peace. St Francis gave it an appropriate burial and later built the Church of St Francis of the Peace on the site. Apparently in 1872, when the church was being renovated, a skeleton of a wolf was found buried under a slab. It was reburied back inside.

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Top 10 Sports Athletes from Somalia

Somalia is a country situated in the Horn of Africa that has both the Red Sea coastline and the Indian Ocean coastline. Somali sports giants have graced various international athletics competitions over time. We have provided for you a list of the top 10 sports athletes from this beautiful country as a stepping-stone for you to explore more.

10. Mohamed Jama

Mohamed Jama is a kickboxer in the middleweight category. He is based in Netherlands and practices at Tooy Gym. He has held a record of 27 fights comprising of both European and World titles. He has been playing kickboxing since the early days of the turn of this millennium.

9. Mohamed Deq Abdulle

Source: Mastkd.com

Mohammed Abdulle is a professional Taekwondo player who often trained together with his Somali compatriot, Faisal Aweys. They both competed at the Taekwondo African Championships in 2013, held in Tunisia where Abdulle emerged fourth while Aweys grabbed a bronze.

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8. Faisal Jeylani Aweys

Source: Taekwondototal.blogspot.co.uk

Born in Somalia in 1987, Aweys relocated to Switzerland in 2000 at age 13. He trained in Switzerland under Coach Elton De Souza. In 2010, Aweys won his first national title at the Switzerland Championships after forming his own Taekwondo club together with his friend, Anthony Wood.

In 2013, Aweys won a silver medal at the Open World Taekwondo Challenge Championship held in Tongeren.

Aweys reached semi-finals of the Taekwondo African Championships in 2013, held in Tunisia. He won a bronze medal at the end of the championships after fiercely beating competitors from Gabon and Mozambique and losing to Egyptian. This improved his global ranking to 56th position.

7. Zahra Bani

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Zahra Bani is a javelin thrower who was born 1979 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She is borne of an Italian father and Somali mother.  She threw to her personal best of 62.75 meters during the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. She is considered Italy’s second-best Javelin thrower of all time.

Zahra has been out of active athletics for a while due to health challenges.

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6. Mustafa Mohammed

Source: Wikipedia.org

Mohammed relocated from Mogadishu to Sweden at age 11. He was born in Mogadishu in 1979. He is a steeplechase runner. In 1998 at the World Junior Championships, he finished eighth overall. In 2003, he broke his personal record of 8:32 by almost 10 seconds to reach a new personal best of 8:23.

Mustafa has been performing well at the Nordic Cross Country Championships where he emerged as a bronze medalist in 1997 at the junior level. He improved on his performance to win silver at the senior level in 2003. Finally, he managed to cap it all by winning the coveted gold medal in 2006.

In 2007, he broke the 31-year old Swedish record by posting a time of 8:05:75. In 2010, he competed in the 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters making a triple win at the Swedish Athletics Championships.

 5. Abdisalam Ibrahim

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Abdisalam Ibrahim was born on May 1, 1991. He relocated to Norway in 1998. He debuted his football career at Øyer-Tretten as junior championships player. He later moved to play for Fjellhamar. He started off playing for English clubs by joining Manchester City as a junior player in early 2007. He was a member of the team that beat Chelsea 4-2 on aggregate in the FA Youth Cup final.

He transitioned to senior level as a midfielder when he played against Scunthorpe United at the beginning of 2010. He launched his Premier League entry by becoming a substitute player in which his team drew 0-0 against Liverpool.

So far, he has played for several English clubs and on loan to a number of non-English clubs. He probably sets record as one of those players who played on loan for so many clubs and warmed so many benches.

4. Mohammed Ahamed

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Born in 1985, Mohammed Ahamed Jama relocated to Norway where he became a Somali-Norwegian footballer. He is popularly known as ‘Mo’. He debuted his Norwegian football career by playing for Fløya. He later moved to Tromsdalen in 2006 after which he was bought by Tromsø in 2009. He is remembered for having scored in the 5-0 devastating win against Daugava Daugavpils of Latvia. Tromsø loaned him to Sarpsborg 08 where he played for one year.  Later on, he rejoined his old club Tromsdalen to continue with his football playing.

3. Ayub Daud

Source: Worldfootball.net

Born Ayuub Daaud to Daud Hussein (former player with Somali National Football team), he was moved to Italy at age 5. He joined Juventus junior club (youth sector) in the year 2000 and played for Under 20 squad (Primavera) for the 2008-9 Season.

As part of the Juventus squad of 2009, he was one of the top players of the season with 20 goals to his credit. He eventually made his entry into the Juventus senior team in the dying minutes of Serie A game against Bologna in which Juventus won 4-1.

In August 2009, Daud switched gear from Juventus to FC Crotone on loan. His loan period did not expire as he encountered difficulties with his new club. He was later re-loaned to Lumezzane. After nearly 2 years on loan for the two clubs, he joined A.S. Gubbio 1910 in January 2011. He played for Gubbio until August 2013 after which he switched from Italy to Hungary to play for Budapest Honvéd FC.

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2. Liban Abdi

Abdi was born in 1988 in Borao, Somalia. His family was forced to move into exile in Norway during the Somali war. At age 14, his family moved him to England. At age 15, he joined Sheffield United’s youth academy. He later signed a two-year contract with Sheffield and loaned to Ferencváros. Afterward, he joined Olhanense, Portugal towards the end of 2012.

Recently, Abdi has been playing for Al-Ettifaq of Saudi Arabia.

1.     Mo Farah

Source: Wikimedia.org

Mohamed Mukhtar Jama “Mo” Farah was born in Mogadishu in 1983. His family was forced to flee Mogadishu due to hostilities occasioned by his native region (Somaliland) declaring secession from Somalia. The later moved into Djibouti before relocating to Hounslow, England, at age of eight.

At age 13, Farah participated in Cross Country championship in the London Youth Games representing Hounslow. In the subsequent year, he won one of the five English school titles, which made him get recognition as a highly potential athlete.

He became one of the first two athletes to join Endurance Performance Center at St. Mary’s University College where he was studying and training.

In July 2006, he became Britain’s second-fastest runner in 5000m after clocking 13:9:40. In August the same month, he participated in European Championship in Gothenburg by running in the 5000m race. He won the silver medal.

By the end of 2017, Farah has won so many medals in so many races including 3000m, 5000m, and 10000m. He won Olympics gold medal in 10000m and 5000m at Rio Olympics. He has also won European championships in 1500m races.

Conclusion

Somalia is a beautiful East African country and home to great athletes. However, due to a long period of wars and turmoil, Somali sports were disrupted for decades and most of its sports athletes relocated abroad, mainly Europe. Some even acquired citizenship of those countries.

Thus, there are many Somali-born citizens of other countries. Nonetheless, they still have a strong attachment to their motherland. We have considered some of them being Somalis since most of them were forced to relocate as refugees due to the war.

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Gubbio - The Saint, The Wolf and a Race

Gubbio – The Saint, The Wolf and a Race

Gubbio – The Saint, The Wolf and a Race, watercolor and ink. 36 cm x 68 cm (For Sale)

Gubbio is a fascinating town in Umbria, said to be one of Noah’s first twelve cities, it is also the place where St Francis spoke to a wolf, who was terrorising the residents. Each May there is a famous mountain race where three teams carry 25 foot totems to the basilica above.

Gubbio landmarks

Ceri dei Gubbio

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Paris Saint-Germain acutely appear the signing of Alves. According to the British media news, Paris for Alves to accommodate a anniversary bacon of 230,000 euros, the ceremony bacon of about 12 actor euros in the two-year contract. In Paris Saint-Germain Alves will abrasion No. 32 jersey.

In the endure season, and Barcelona has been clumsy to adeptness an acceding on the face-lifting of Alves came to Italy to accompany Juventus, Brazil aerial accession on anniversary of Juventus played 31 games, denticulate 2 goals and contributed 7 assists. With the admonition of Alves, Juventus won Serie A and the Italian Cup bifold endure season. In the Champions Alliance semi-final, Alves one accession to a brawl 3 assists, Juventus into the finals of the bigger hero.

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Antonio Donahora is 27 years old, like his brother, the goalkeeper, AC Milan adolescence training adjustment training out of the players, in 2009 into the aboriginal team, due to the backbone of bad, has been busy to Piacenza and Gubbio, the final In 2012, a abiding adieu to Milan Nello, abutting Genoa. During the AC Milan team (visit www.onlinegameshop.com) , Antonio Dona Rama never played the race. In fact, in Genoa four years, Antonio - Dona Rama aswell played alone 1 times. In the summer of 2016, Antonio Dona Lu Ma larboard Genoa, as a chargeless abettor to accompany the Greek club Astraces Tripoli, a complete of 23 appearances, mad absent 36 balls, alone aught cease 4 times.