The Economist too woke for most folk: upset that Italian soccer team composed of Italians

Woke joke The Economist, not known for its sports commentary, on Wednesday said that the Italian championship soccer team's lack of diversity the most "striking" feature of the squad. Apparently this embarrassment of a media outlet is more interested in skin color, gender identification, height, intelligence, and physical attributes than their ability to play the game.

Italy beat England in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday in penalty kicks to take home the championship trophy.  While fans went wild, The Economist went woke and was most concerned about the lack of black and brown players on the Italian team. There was also a lack of Asians, midgets, gays, lesbians, and paraplegics, Jews and Muslims, the latter causing Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to have a cow.

"The most striking aspect of Italy’s 26-man squad before it took to the pitch was that, alone among the main contenders, it did not include a single player considered as being of color," The Economist tweeted. However, there were indeed several players who identified as being black women in spite of their genitalia but the outlet did not report on that. Also, there was one player from Calabria who identified as being a transgender woman with chronic testicular engorgement--she goes by the name of Bruno.

"THE EURO 2020 final between Italy and England was striking, not just for the clash of footballing styles in the match itself, but for the socio-political undercurrents that swirled between the two sides and touched on issues that included nationalism, internationalism and racial sensitivity," the Economist wrote in the accompanying piece.

The outlet went on to note the squad received criticism for their "ambivalent" approach to taking a knee as a gesture of opposition to racism and that the sporting event "favored" the country's right wing.

"Since when has a knee done botz to stop racism?" Vito DeGennaro, Team Italy's kicking lefty coach said. "You gotta do more than a knee to keep a da people from saying a bad tings about people of a da color," he added. "Fahgeddabowdit."

Normal people were confused by The Economist's narrative and mocked the premise of the silly tweet.

"BREAKING: Italian team was comprised entirely of Italians. More at 11," The Daily Caller mocked.

Based on the Economist's narrative, others wondered whether the outlet would publish similar analysis of African soccer teams.

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