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| | CNN/SI - World Soccer - GK blunders, Mussolini tries to score in Italy - Wednesday September 29, 1999 03:43 PM |
 | | After struggling Parma lost a second straight match on Sunday, Buffon appeared for a television interview with a right-wing slogan on his jersey which, roughly translated, meant: "Death to him who gives up." |
 | | Buffon, who later said he had no idea that the slogan was a rallying cry for a 1970 right-wing riot in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, had merely sought to encourage his embattled teammates. |
 | | But by the time the lower house of parliament gathered on Tuesday, Buffon's gesture had become a national political issue, provoking the ire of Interior Minister Rosa Russo Jervolino and the praise of Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of "Il Duce." |
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