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Buonasera quasi a tutti! (Good evening to almost everybody!) is the loud and proud salute of Magica Roma Club Toronto president Vito Caressa, as he enters 90o Minuto Sports Bar .  He was extending his warm greetings to fellow AS Roma fans, and probably not to patrons of rivaling teams. These, shortly after his boisterous entrance proceed to greet him with questions about his recent return from Italy (where he watched Roma home games against Napoli and Chievo) and give him friendly ribbings about officiating errors that his beloved AS Roma benefited from. Caressa responds.  The easy pray is an AC Milan fan, whose team is reeling from poor form. The AC Milan fan reminds Caressa about the rossoneri 's rich trophy case: "we are 7 times European Champions and have 18 scudetti". "Yes, but all of that is over", replies Caressa, reminding the milanista of Pro Vercelli, "they too won 7 scudetti, but are now in oblivion. You'll end up the same".  F...

Catenaccio chatted with Lazio Club Canada president, Marc Anthony Fantauzzi about the Toronto-based fan club. 1. When and how did you become a fan of SS Lazio? SS Lazio is the team most followed within my family.  Being that my father's side of the family is from the Lazio region it was, I suppose the natural choice. My grandfather, who spent the better part of a decade working in Rome also imparted a strong attachment to all things Roman.  The moment I really decided that Lazio was my team was when I had the chance to see them play an exhibition game at Varsity stadium against local side Toronto Italia in the late eighties or early nineties.  It was during the Cragnotti era that I truly I fell in love with the biancocelesti .          Members of the Lazio Club Canada gather to celebrate  SS Lazio's  Coppa Italia  victory. 2. How did the  Lazio Club Canada  come about? When was it formed? The clu...