montoneboy wrote:
Meanwhile , di natale , possible the worlds most underrated striker?

He's in his last years of playing, that's why there's not much talk or hype about him.

i think its mostly because udine is the furthest serie a club from roma, its really far to drive there, like a 12 hour drive.

edit: there and back of course

leemhuis wrote:Udine has a population of 99,000. Cologne has a population of over 1 million. Sheesh, if ten percent of Udine's went to the stadium it would only be 9,000 people.

Kaiserslautern has the same population as Udine (99,184 in 2010) and their stadium was filled with an average of 35,389 people even in 2009/10 when they were still in the 2nd Bundesliga. Now in the (1st) Bundesliga they have an average of 46,398 people, so that is no argument.

I'm sorry but there was not 15,000 people in the stands yesterday. Maybe they sold 15,000 tickets but I would bet my right arm no more then 7000-9000 people were there.

Well it's a 40,000 person stadium and I can tell you that 1/4 of it was not full, not even close.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm used to looking at MLS games and attendence figures as they are usually shocking and playing in big football stadiums and yesterday just looked "wrong" for lack of a better word.

I mean it jumped out at you if you watched the game for just a couple of minutes. It's a shame too because it was a great game for Udinese.

rwo power wrote:

leemhuis wrote:Udine has a population of 99,000. Cologne has a population of over 1 million. Sheesh, if ten percent of Udine's went to the stadium it would only be 9,000 people.

Kaiserslautern has the same population as Udine (99,184 in 2010) and their stadium was filled with an average of 35,389 people even in 2009/10 when they were still in the 2nd Bundesliga. Now in the (1st) Bundesliga they have an average of 46,398 people, so that is no argument.

Kaiserslauten is in industrial high population area of Germany (less 1 hour from Frankfurt, one half hour to Mannhein and Luxembourg). Udine is a isolated town in middle of very under populated Friuli area. I wonce went to see Udine-Milan with some Italians freind. There is nothing aroun the town but farmings or forest for many 100 kilometers. It is much different sitution.

On the other hand, in Frankfurt etc you have other clubs that usually have their own following and there will not be too many people from such towns going to Kaiserslautern (in fact, there are usually rivalries between cities close by). Talking of rivalries - the BVB won the Rheinderby against Schalke 2:0. ^^

rwo power wrote:On the other hand, in Frankfurt etc you have other clubs that usually have their own following and there will not be too many people from such towns going to Kaiserslautern (in fact, there are usually rivalries between cities close by). Talking of rivalries - the BVB won the Rheinderby against Schalke 2:0. ^^

On the other hand there is large population around Kaiserslauten and suburb areas like around Delft which is less than one hour from Amsterdam. When Vitesse is in top division it get small percentage of people from all around millions of population and have gud number of spectators. Udine is very different isolated town.

17000 attendance

dnmac4 wrote:I'm sorry but there was not 15,000 people in the stands yesterday. Maybe they sold 15,000 tickets but I would bet my right arm no more then 7000-9000 people were there.

Best view you could get of the stadium. Some parts of it are blocked off for security reasons. The right hand curva is very empty, while the middle and left hand curva are pretty full. Also, the side on which the camera is on is usually pretty full too because it's the tribuna. That being said, the attendance was still unimpressive, but it's not as bad as it seems when you look at it.

PS- Udinese's attendance numbers have never been that impressive, even last year when they were fighting for Champions League. Unfortunate.