Italians in Switzerland

Hi fellows,

I 'd like to collect another feeling I experienced yesterday.
As you MOST PROBABLY know, European championship is running in Switzerland/Austria, and yesterday Italy (FORZA AZZURRI!!! :P) beat France (Zidane was not the cause this time :P).
The match looked like a box match instead of football, but I 'm not either expert or fan of football, so never mind!
At the end of the match we spent some more time in the center of a small Swiss village, drinking beer. We spent half an hour maybe. That was enough to see a crowd coming into the center... a crowd of Italians, celebrating the winners! A plenty of Italians, I couldn't imagine how many!
Swiss friends explained that young people we saw in the crowd constitutes the second generation of Italians here in Switzerland, that means that parents established in Switzerland and their sons still live here. Swiss uses to call each young "secondo".
I was wondering of the patriotic spirit they spread in celebrating the winners! That young people, although grown in Switzerland, still has an Italian heart! And this is wonderful!

Actually Swiss people consider Italian as friends, and they celebrated as well :).

Italians! Be proud of being Italians and do not damage Italia image! Abroad we are still loved ... hopefully for long yet!

Rossy